Reading Better States (Record no. 70647)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781531512651
028 ## - DISTRIBUTOR NAME
Distributor Name : Raghav Books Pvt. Ltd.
Distributor address : 2/25 First Floor, Arun House, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi
Bill Number : 3114
Bill Date : 3/8/2026
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 810.9 OH
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Oh, Rebecca.
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Reading Better States
Remainder of title : Utopian Method and Environmental Harm in the Global South.
Statement of responsibility, etc / Rebecca Oh.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc , New York
Name of publisher, distributor, etc : Fordham University Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc , 2026.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent v, 221p.
Dimensions : 24cm.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price amount 2164
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc Reading Better States traces the persistence of desires for the postcolonial state in an era of environmental harms and climate catastrophe. As pollution, toxicity, drought, and flood increasingly threaten peoples and environments across the global South, postcolonial writers and ordinary citizens alike have not ceded their futures to the damaged presents they inhabit. Rather, Reading Better States shows how they turn to the state as a resource, imagining postcolonial states as powerful actors and calling upon them to intervene in processes like global capitalism and environmental racism, or to provide environmental protections and basic material necessities. These utopic possibilities are concrete rather than grand, limited and situated rather than totalizing. But they are no less utopic for being quotidian.<br/><br/>Reading Better States challenges the anti-statism prevalent in postcolonial studies and the environmental humanities, where states are predominantly defined through violence. Seeing postcolonial states beyond their bad surfaces requires a utopian method of reading, a way of seeing the state that reads its negativity against the grain for alternative possibilities. In Reading Better States the state is Janus-faced. It is a bad actor, but it is also a site of collective hopes and concrete utopian visions. Using a wide-ranging archive of novels, films, court decisions, legislation, poetry, and testimony, Reading Better States reveals the importance of environmental concrete utopias in the present and reconsiders the postcolonial state for its interventionist possibilities as well as its violence. It does this through a utopian method that, like concrete utopias themselves, attends to negativity while stretching beyond it, seeking out visions of surplus which exceed, even if they cannot escape, the damage and disappointment of the present earth.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Literature
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element American Literature
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element History
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Rebecca Oh.
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     SNU LIBRARY SNU LIBRARY 07/08/2026 Raghav Books Pvt. Ptd. 2164.00   810.9 OH 31662 07/08/2026 07/08/2026 Books
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