Unlearning Imperialism
by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay
- Author(s)
- Ariella Aïsha Azoulay
- Publication
- London ; New York : Verso, 2019
- Scope
- 656 Pages, illustrated, 23 cm.
- Carrier
- reader
- ISBN
- 9781788735711
The renowned scholar political theory and photography Ariella Aïsha 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 Léopold II, from dispossessed Palestinians in 1948 to displaced refugees in our own day.
- Keywords
- photography , critical aesthetics , decolonisation , politics , inequity - imperialism
- Location
- Cabinet 29 - 5: Expanded Space ; Global Art ; decolonisatie
- Remarks
- Includes notes, bibliography, visual sources, index
