UID:
edocfu_9959239430002883
Format:
1 online resource (232 p.)
ISBN:
1-134-01515-1
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0-203-88387-X
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1-134-01516-X
Series Statement:
Culture, economy and the social
Content:
This edited collection is a major contribution to the current development of a 'material turn' in the social sciences and humanities. It does so by exploring new understandings of how power is made up and exercised by examining the role of material infrastructures in the organization of state power and the role of material cultural practices in the organization of colonial forms of governance. A diverse range of historical examples is drawn on in illustrating these concerns - from the role of territorial engineering projects in seventeenth-century France through the development of
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Matter and materialism : a brief prehistory of the present / John Frow -- Locating matter : the place of materiality in urban history / Chris Otter -- The matter of materialism : literary mediations / Bill Brown -- The unintended state / Chandra Mukerji -- Filing the Raj : political technologies of the imperial British state / Patrick Joyce -- Abstraction, materiality and the science of the concrete in engineering practice / Penny Harvey and Hannah Knox -- Camerawork as technical practice in colonial India / Christopher Pinney -- Exploring the senses and exploiting the land : railroads, bodies and measurement in nineteenth-century french colonies / Nélia Dias -- Making and mobilising worlds : assembling and governing the other / Tony Bennett.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-60314-5
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-48303-4
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203883877
