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Material Powers
Cultural Studies, History and the Material Turn
Langbeschreibung
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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Material Powers Introduction Part 1: A History of the Categories 1. Matter and Materialism: A Brief Prehistory of the Present 2. Locating Matter: The Place of Materiality in Urban History 3. The Matter of Materialism: Literary Mediations Part 2: Assembling the State 4. The Unintended State 5. Filing the Raj: Political Technologies of the Imperial British State 6. Abstraction, Materiality and the 'Science of the Concrete' in Engineering Practice Part 3: Colonial Materialities 7. Camerawork as Technical Practice in Colonial India 8. Exploring the Senses and Exploiting the Land : Railroads, Bodies and Measurement in Nineteenth-Century French Colonies 9. Making and Mobilising Worlds: Assembling and Governing the Other
Tony Bennett is Research Professor of Social and Cultural Theory in the Centre for Cultural Research at the University of Western Sydney. He is also a Professorial Fellow in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne and a Visiting Professor at the Open University in the UK. Recent publications include Culture: A Reformer's Science (Sage, 1998), Pasts Beyond Memory: Evolution, Museums, Colonialism (Routledge, 2004), and Culture, Class, Distinction, with Mike Savage, Elizabeth Silva, Alan Warde, Modesto Gayo-Cal and David Wright (Routledge, 2008).
ISBN-13:
9781134015160
Veröffentl:
2013
Seiten:
232
Autor:
Tony Bennett
Serie:
CRESC
eBook Typ:
PDF
eBook Format:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
2 - DRM Adobe
Sprache:
Englisch
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