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Informationen zum Autor Ann Laura Stoler is the Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies at the New School for Social Research. She is the author of Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense and Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule. Her books Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault’s History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things and Haunted by Empire: Geographies of Intimacy in North American History are both also published by Duke University Press. Klappentext Imperial Debris redirects scholarly focus away from ruins as evidence of the past to "ruination" as the processes through which imperial power occupies the environment, and bodies and minds, in the present. Zusammenfassung Imperial Debris redirects scholarly focus away from ruins as evidence of the past to "ruination" as the processes through which imperial power occupies the environment! and bodies and minds! in the present. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface ix Introduction. "The Rot Remains": From Ruins to Ruination / Ann Laura Stoler 1 Part I. Decompositions of Matter and Mind 1. An Acoustic Register: Rape and Repetition in Congo / Nancy Rose Hunt 39 2. The Coolie: An Unfinished Epic / E. Valentine Daniel 67 3. Empire's Ruin: Detroit to the Amazon / Greg Grandin 115 Part II. Living in Ruins: Degradations and Regenerations 4. Detritus in Durban: Polluted Environs and the Biopolitics of Refusal / Sharad Chari 131 5. Ruins, Redemption, and Brazil's Imperial Exception / John Collins 162 6. When a Demolished House Becomes a Public Square / Ariella Azoulay 194 Part III. Anticipating the Imperial Future 7. The Void: Invisible Ruins on the Edges of Empire / Gastón Gordillo 227 8. Engineering the Future as Nuclear Ruin / Joseph Masco 252 9. The Future in Ruins / Vyjayanthi Rao 287 Bibliography 323 Contributors 355 Index 357...
