Decay

Decay explores the processes and experiences of symbolic and material decay in various sociopolitical contexts, including colonialism, imperialism, racism, the environment, and infrastructure. It provides nuanced and rigorous means to grapple with the current sociopolitical moment.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 192 pages
\n Publication date: 05 November 2021
\n Publisher: Duke University Press
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In eleven meticulously crafted essays, the contributors to Decay delve into the intricate processes and profound experiences of symbolic and material decay across a diverse range of sociopolitical contexts worldwide. They explore decay in its myriad manifestations, spanning biological, physical, organizational, moral, political, personal, and social realms, occurring in various contexts, including colonialism and imperialism, governments and the state, racism, the environment, and infrastructure. The topics covered in this volume are expansive, ranging from the discourse of social decay in contemporary Australian settler colonialism to the ways in which infrastructures both create and undergo decay. Additionally, it delves into cultural decay in the aftermath of the Sri Lankan civil war and the intricate relationships between individual, institutional, and societal decay within an American high-security prison. By employing decay as a problematic and elucidating its mechanisms, conditions, and temporalities, the contributors offer nuanced and rigorous approaches to grappling with the pressing challenges of the present 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, and Violeta Schubert

\n Weight: 288g\n
Dimension: 152 x 229 x 15 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781478014737\n \n