Format:
1 online resource (224 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415483032
,
9781134015160
Series Statement:
Cresc Series
Content:
This book explores and develops 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
Note:
Front Cover -- Material Powers -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Material powers: introduction: Patrick Joyce and Tony Bennett -- Part 1: A history of the categories -- 1. Matter and materialism: a brief pre-history of the present: John Frow -- 2. Locating matter: the place of materiality in urban history: Chris Otter -- 3. The matter of materialism: literary mediations: Bill Brown -- Part 2: Assembling the state -- 4. The unintended state: Chandra Mukerji -- 5. Filing the Raj: political technologies of the Imperial British state: Patrick Joyce -- 6. Abstraction, materiality and the 'science of the concrete' in engineering practice: Penny Harvey and Hannah Knox -- Part 3: Colonial materialities -- 7. Camerawork as technical practice in colonial India: Christopher Pinney -- 8. Exploring the senses and exploiting the land: Railroads, bodies and measurement in nineteenth-century French colonies: Nélia Dias -- 9. Making and mobilising worlds: assembling and governing the other: Tony Bennett -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Bennett, Tony Material Powers Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2010 ISBN 9780415483032
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
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