Material powers
Subtitle: cultural studies, history and the material turn
By: edited Tony Bennett and Patrick Joyce.
Contributors: Bennett, Tony, 1947-; Joyce, Patrick.
Series: Culture, economy and the social
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415483032; 9780203883877
Subjects: Infrastructure (Economics) -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History; Infrastructure (Economics) -- France -- Colonies -- History; Imperialism -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Matter and materialism : a brief prehistory of the present / John Frow; title: Locating matter : the place of materiality in urban history / Chris Otter; title: The matter of materialism : literary mediations / Bill Brown; title: The unintended state / Chandra Mukerji; title: Filing the Raj : political technologies of the imperial British state / Patrick Joyce; title: Abstraction, materiality and the science of the concrete in engineering practice / Penny Harvey and Hannah Knox; title: Camerawork as technical practice in colonial India / Christopher Pinney; title: Exploring the senses and exploiting the land : railroads, bodies and measurement in nineteenth-century french colonies / Nélia Dias; title: Making and mobilising worlds : assembling and governing the other / Tony Bennett.