{"product_id":"potential-history-unlearning-imperialism-paperback","title":"Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAriella Aïsha Azoulay\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA passionately urgent call for all of us to unlearn imperialism and repair the violent world we share, from one of our most compelling political theorists\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this theoretical tour-de-force, renowned scholar Ariella A sha Azoulay calls on us to recognize the imperial foundations of knowledge and to refuse its strictures and its many violences. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAzoulay 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 emphasized the possibility of progress while it tries to destroy what came before, and voraciously seeks out the new by sealing the past away in dusty archival boxes and the glass vitrines of museums. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy practicing what she calls potential history, Azoulay argues that we can still refuse the original imperial violence that shattered communities, lives, and worlds, from native peoples in the Americas at the moment of conquest to the Congo ruled by Belgium's brutal King L opold II, from dispossessed Palestinians in 1948 to displaced refugees in our own day. In \u003ci\u003ePotential History\u003c\/i\u003e, Azoulay travels alongside historical companions--an old Palestinian man who refused to leave his village in 1948, an anonymous woman in war-ravaged Berlin, looted objects and documents torn from their worlds and now housed in archives and museums--to chart the ways imperialism has sought to order time, space, and politics. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRather than looking for a new future, Azoulay calls upon us to rewind history and unlearn our imperial rights, to continue to refuse imperial violence by making present what was invented as \"past\" and making the repair of torn worlds the substance of politics.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAriela Aïsha Azoulay\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of Comparative Literature and Modern Culture, and Media at Brown University, as well as a curator and documentary film maker. Her many books include \u003ci\u003eThe Civil Contract of Photography\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eCivil Imagination: A Political Ontology of Photography\u003c\/i\u003e, and she has curated exhibits for galleries and museums around the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 656\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.6 x 9.2 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 19, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51770122961184,"sku":"9781788735711","price":44.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/722e08645a1ee633034efaa1565eb9b5.webp?v=1780364945","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/potential-history-unlearning-imperialism-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}