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028			_aBrijwasi Book Distributors _bH-87,Lalita Park, Laxmi Nagar, New Delhi-110092 _cBW/004839 _d25/06/2018
082			_a325.3 STO
100			_aAnn Laura Stoler.
245			_aImperial debris _b: on ruins and ruination. _c/Ann Laura Stoler.
260			_aDurham ; London _b: Duke University Press _c, ©2013.
300			_axi, 365 pages _b : illustrations, maps _c ; 25 cm.
365			_b6762
505			_aIntroduction. "The rot remains": from ruins to ruination / Ann Laura Stoler -- Decompositions of Matter and Mind. An acoustic register: tenacious images, congolese scenes of rape, and repetition / Nancy Hunt -- The coolie: an unfinished epic / E. Valentine Daniel -- Empire's ruins: Detroit to the Amazon / Greg Grandin -- Living in Ruins: Degradations and Regenerations. Detritus in Durban: polluted environs and the biopolitics of refusal / Sharad Chari -- Ruins, redemption and Brazil's imperial exception / John Collins -- When a demolished house becomes a public square / Ariella Azoulay -- Anticipating the Imperial Future. The void: invisible ruins on the edges of empire / Gastcentn Gordillo -- Engineering the future as nuclear ruin / Joseph Masco -- The future in ruins / Vyjayanthi Rao.
520			_a"Imperial Debris redirects critical focus from ruins as evidence of the past to "ruination" as the processes through which imperial power occupies the present. Ann Laura Stoler's introduction is a manifesto, a compelling call for postcolonial studies to expand its analytical scope to address the toxic but less perceptible corrosions and violent accruals of colonial aftermaths, as well as their durable traces on the material environment and people's bodies and minds. In their provocative, tightly focused responses to Stoler, the contributors explore subjects as seemingly diverse as villages submerged during the building of a massive dam in southern India, Palestinian children taught to envision and document ancestral homes razed by the Israeli military, and survival on the toxic edges of oil refineries and amid the remains of apartheid in Durban, South Africa. They consider the significance of Cold War imagery of a United States decimated by nuclear blast, perceptions of a swath of Argentina's Gran Chaco as a barbarous void, and the enduring resonance, in contemporary sexual violence, of atrocities in King Leopold's Congo. Reflecting on the physical destruction of Sri Lanka, on Detroit as a colonial metropole in relation to sites of ruination in the Amazon, and on interactions near a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Brazilian state of Bahia, the contributors attend to present-day harms in the occluded, unexpected sites and situations where earlier imperial formations persist."--Publisher's description.
655			_aPostcolonialism. _bSocial aspects. _bEconomics
700			_aAnn Laura Stoler.
942			_cBOOK
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