Imperial debris : on ruins and ruination / edited by Ann Laura Stoler.
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TextPublication details: Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2013.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 365 p.) ; ill., mapsISBN: - 9780822395850(ebook)
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Includes bibliographical references and index (pages [323]-353) and index.
Introduction. "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.
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