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Potential History : Unlearning Imperialism / Ariella Aisha Azoulay.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: London : Verso, 2019.Description: XVI, 634 p. : Illustrationen ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781788735711
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 325.32 AZO
Contents:
Contents
1. Unlearning Imperialism
2. Plunder, Objects, Art, Rights
3. Archives: The Commons, Not the Past
4. Potential History: Not with the Master's Tools, Not with Tools at All
5. Worldly Sovereignty
6. Human Rights
7. Repair, Reparations, Return: The Condition of Worldliness
Summary: A 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 In this theoretical tour-de-force, renowned scholar Ariella AIsha Azoulay calls on us to recognize the imperial foundations of knowledge and to refuse its strictures and its many violences. Azoulay 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. By 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 Leopold II, from dispossessed Palestinians in 1948 to displaced refugees in our own day. In Potential History, 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. Rather than looking for a new future, Azoulay calls upon us to rewind history, unlearn these modes, to reclaim and continue to refuse imperial violence through the practice of unsealing the past and realizing history's potential-and by so doing, beginning to repair the worlds that have been torn
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Contents

1. Unlearning Imperialism

2. Plunder, Objects, Art, Rights

3. Archives: The Commons, Not the Past

4. Potential History: Not with the Master's Tools, Not with Tools at All

5. Worldly Sovereignty

6. Human Rights

7. Repair, Reparations, Return: The Condition of Worldliness

A 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 In this theoretical tour-de-force, renowned scholar Ariella AIsha Azoulay calls on us to recognize the imperial foundations of knowledge and to refuse its strictures and its many violences. Azoulay 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. By 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 Leopold II, from dispossessed Palestinians in 1948 to displaced refugees in our own day. In Potential History, 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. Rather than looking for a new future, Azoulay calls upon us to rewind history, unlearn these modes, to reclaim and continue to refuse imperial violence through the practice of unsealing the past and realizing history's potential-and by so doing, beginning to repair the worlds that have been torn

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