Decay

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Decay

Ghassan Hage

Duke University Press, 2021

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Summary: "In thirteen sharp essays, the contributors to Decay attend to the processes and experiences of symbolic and material decay in a variety of sociopolitical contexts across the globe. They examine decay in its myriad manifestations-biological, physical, organizational, moral, political, personal, and social-and in its numerous contexts-colonialism and imperialism, governments and the state, racism, the environment, and infrastructure. The volume's topics are wide in scope, ranging from the discourse of social decay in contemporary Australian settler colonialism and the ways infrastructures both create and experience decay to cultural decay in the aftermath of the Sri Lankan civil war and the relations between individual, institutional, and societal decay in an American high security prison. By using decay as a problematic and expounding its mechanisms, conditions, and temporalities, the contributors provide a nuanced and rigorous way to more fully grapple with the exigencies of the current sociopolitic

収録内容

  • Toward an Analytics of Social Decay / Ghassan Hage
  • Forever "Falling Apart": Semiotics and Rhetorics of Decay / Violeta Schubert
  • Trash and Treasure: Pathologies of Permanence on the Margins of Our Plastic Age / Debra McDougall
  • The Dialectic of Construction and Ruination in the Study of Infrastructure / Akhil Gupta
  • The Waterfall at the End of the World: Earthquakes, Entropy, and Explanation / Monica Minnegal, Michael Main, and Peter D. Dwyer
  • "Vile Corpse": Urban Decay as Human Beauty and Social Pollution / Michael Herzfeld
  • Decay or Fresh Contact? Exposure, Mixture, and Moral Panic after War's End / Bart Klem
  • Seeds of Decay / Fabio Mattioli
  • Accelerated Decay in Settler Colonial Australia / Elise Klein
  • Decay as Decline in Social Viability among Ex-Militiamen in Lebanon / Ghassan Hage
  • Relational Decay: White Helpers on Australia's Colonial Frontier / Cameo Dalley
  • Decay, Rot, Mold, and Resistance in the US Prison System / Tamara Kohn

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内容説明

In eleven sharp essays, the contributors to Decay attend to the processes and experiences of symbolic and material decay in a variety of sociopolitical contexts across the globe. They examine decay in its myriad manifestations-biological, physical, organizational, moral, political, personal, and social and in numerous contexts, including colonialism and imperialism, governments and the state, racism, the environment, and infrastructure. The volume's topics are wide in scope, ranging from the discourse of social decay in contemporary Australian settler colonialism and the ways infrastructures both create and experience decay to cultural decay in the aftermath of the Sri Lankan civil war and the relations among individual, institutional, and societal decay in an American high-security prison. By using decay as a problematic and expounding its mechanisms, conditions, and temporalities, the contributors provide nuanced and rigorous means to more fully grapple with the exigencies of the current sociopolitical moment. Contributors. Cameo Dalley, Peter D. Dwyer, Akhil Gupta, Ghassan Hage, Michael Herzfeld, Elise Klein, Bart Klem, Tamara Kohn, Michael Main, Fabio Mattioli, Debra McDougall, Monica Minnegal, Violeta Schubert

目次

Acknowledgments vii Introduction: States of Decay / Ghassan Hage 1 1. Forever "Falling Apart": Semiotics and Rhetorics of Decay / Violeta Schubert 17 2. Trash and Treasure: Pathologies of Permanence on the Margins of Our Plastic Age / Debra McDougall 28 3. Infrastructure as Decay and the Decay of Infrastructure / Akhil Gupta 37 4. The Waterfall at the End of the World: Earthquakes, Entropy, and Explanation / Monica Minnegal, Michael Main, and Peter D. Dwyer 47 5. "Vile Corpse": Urban Decay as Human Beauty and Social Pollution / Michael Herzfeld 58 6. Decay or Fresh Contact? The Morality of Mixture after War's End / Bart Klem 73 7. Seeds of Decay / Fabio Mattioli 86 8. Discourses of Decay in Settler Colonial Australia / Elise Klein 99 9. Decay as Decline in Social Viability among Ex-Militiamen in Lebanon / Ghassan Hage 110 10. Relational Decay: White Helpers in Australia's Indigenous Communities / Cameo Dalley 128 11. Decay, Rot, Mold, and Resistance in the US Prison System / Tamara Kohn 140 References 153 Contributors 171 Index 175

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