Duress: Imperial Durabilities in Our Times
Ann Laura Stoler is Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies at The New School for Social Research and the author and editor of many books, including Imperial Debris: On Ruins and Ruination and Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things, both also published by Duke University Press.
Critical Incisions: On Concept Work and Colonial Recursions
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Published:October 2016
This chapter asks how colonial histories matter today and offers an introduction to the conceptual labor that may be needed to capture the uneven, recursive qualities of the visions and practices that imperial formations have animated and what they have succeeded and failed to put in place. Attention to the politics of occlusion, colonial temporalities, and a “recursive analytics” is introduced.
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