Potential History
Unlearning Imperialism
In this theoretical tour-de-force, renowned scholar Ariella Aisha Azoulay calls on us to recognize the imperial foundations of knowledge and to refuse its strictures and its many violences. Azoulay argues that the institutions that make our world, from archives and museums to ideas of sovereignty and human rights to history itself, are all dependent on imperial modes of thinking. Imperialism has segmented populations into differentially governed groups, continually emphasised the possibility of progress while trying to destroy what came before, and voraciously sought out the new by sealing the past away in dusty archival boxes and the glass v…
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- ISBN: 978-1-78873-572-8
- EAN: 9781788735728
- Produktnummer: 33054547
- Verlag: Verso
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 656 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 13'578 KB
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