Main entry:

Azoulay, Ariella, author.

Title & Author:

Potential history : unlearning imperialism / Ariella Aïsha Azoulay.

Publication:

London ; Brooklyn, NY : Verso, 2019.
©2019

Description:

xvi, 634 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
"Visual sources" (pages [623]-627).
Includes bibliographical references (pages [582]-622) and index.
Unlearning imperialism -- Plunder, objects, art, rights -- Imagine going on strike: museum workers -- Archives: the commons, not the past -- Imagine going on strike: photographers -- Potential history: not with the master's tools, not with tools at all -- Imagine going on strike: historians -- Worldly sovereignty -- Imagine going on strike: the governed -- Human rights -- Imagine going on strike until our world is repaired -- Repair, reparations, return: the condition of worldliness.

Summary:

"In this theoretical tour-de-force, renowned scholar of political theory and photography Ariella Aïsha 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 imperial modes of ordering time, space, and politics. Like a camera's shutter slicing moments into photgraphs that can be catalogued and hung on museaum walls, imperialism has segmented populations into differentially governed groups, celebrating the new while destroying the old. By practicing what she calls potential history, Azoulay proposes that we can still refuse the original imperial violence that shattered communities, lives, and worlds by disengaging from its ways of knowing: slavery can only stop with reparations; the dispossession of Palestinians in 1948 can only be halted with their unconditional return to Palestine. Including over one hundred images, Potential History argues that it is by caring collectively for our shared world that we can make the potential for freedom visible." -- Publisher, page four of cover.

ISBN:

9781788735711 (paperback)
1788735714 (paperback)
9781788735704 (hardcover)
1788735706 (hardcover)
9781788735735 (US EBK)
1788735730 (US EBK)
9781788735728 (UK EBK)
1788735722 (UK EBK)

Subject:

Imperialism.
Knowledge, Sociology of.
History Philosophy.
Museums Acquisitions Moral and ethical aspects.
Archives Acquisitions Moral and ethical aspects.
Reparations for historical injustices.
Learning and scholarship Moral and ethical aspects.
Impérialisme.
Sociologie de la connaissance.
Histoire Philosophie.
Musées Acquisitions Aspect moral.
Archives Acquisitions Aspect moral.
Réparations des crimes de l'histoire.
Savoir et érudition Aspect moral.
sociology of knowledge.
Museums Acquisition Moral and ethical aspects
Archives Acquisition Moral and ethical aspects
Anerkennung
Fotografie
Freiheit
Fundament
Geschichtsphilosophie
Gewalt
Imperialismus
Kolonialismus
Politik
Postkolonialismus
Wiedergutmachung
Wissen
Wissenssoziologie

Holdings:

Location: Library main 315654
Call No.: 315654
Copy: 1
Status: Available