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Imperial Debris : On Ruins and Ruination by Ann Laura Stoler (editor) is a social science available to read on EtoBox.
What is Imperial Debris : On Ruins and Ruination about?
<i>Imperial Debris</i> 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, t
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Ann Laura Stoler (editor)
- Publisher
- Duke University Press; Duke University Press Books
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780822353614
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- History, Anthropology, Political Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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