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Material Powers - Cultural Studies, History and the Material Turn (Paperback, New)
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Material Powers - Cultural Studies, History and the Material Turn (Paperback, New)
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This edited collection is a major contribution to the current
development of a 'material turn' in the social sciences and
humanities. It does so by exploring new understandings of how power
is made up and exercised by examining the role of material
infrastructures in the organization of state power and the role of
material cultural practices in the organization of colonial forms
of governance. A diverse range of historical examples is drawn on
in illustrating these concerns - from the role of territorial
engineering projects in seventeenth-century France through the
development of the postal system in nineteenth-century Britain to
the relations between the state and road-building in contemporary
Peru, for example. The colonial contexts examined are similarly
varied, ranging from the role of photographic practices in the
constitution of colonial power in India and the measurement of the
bodies of the colonized in French colonial practices to the part
played by the relations between museums and expeditions in the
organization of Australian forms of colonial rule. These specific
concerns are connected to major critical re-examination of the
limits of the earlier formulations of cultural materialism and the
logic of the 'cultural turn'. The collection brings together a
group of key international scholars whose work has played a leading
role in debates in and across the fields of history, visual culture
studies, anthropology, geography, cultural studies, museum studies,
and literary studies.
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