Description: Slow Disturbance : Infrastructural Mediation on the Settler Colonial Resource Frontier, Hardcover by Ruiz, Rafico, ISBN 1478007982, ISBN-13 9781478007982, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US From the late nineteenth through most of the twentieth century, the evangelical Protestant Grenfell Mission in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, created a network of hospitals, schools, orphanages, stores, and industries with the goal of bringing health and organized society to settler fisherfolk and Indigenous populations. This infrastructure also served to support resource extraction of fisheries off Labrador's coast. In Slow Disturbance Rafico Ruiz engages with the Grenfell mission to theorize how settler colonialism establishes itself through what he calls infrastructural mediation'the ways in which colonial lifeworlds, subjectivities, and affects come into being through the creation and maintenance of infrastructures. Drawing on archival documents, maps, interviews with municipal officials, teachers, and residents, as well as his field photography, Ruiz shows how the mission's infrastructural mediation'from its attempts to restructure the local economy to the aerial surveying and mapping of the coastline'responded to the colony's environmental conditions in ways that expanded the bounds of the settler frontier. By tracing the mission's history and the mechanisms that enabled its functioning, Ruiz complicates understandings of mediation and infrastructure while expanding current debates surrounding settler colonialism and extractive capitalism.
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Book Title: Slow Disturbance : Infrastructural Mediation on the Settler Colon
Number of Pages: 240 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Slow Disturbance : Infrastructural Mediation on the Settler Colonial Resource Frontier
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication Year: 2021
Subject: Canada / General, Media Studies, Fisheries & Aquaculture
Item Height: 0.7 in
Item Weight: 16 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9.3 in
Subject Area: Technology & Engineering, Social Science, History
Author: Rafico Ruiz
Series: Sign, Storage, Transmission Ser.
Item Width: 6.3 in
Format: Hardcover
