TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bennett,Tony
AU  - Joyce,Patrick
TI  - Material powers: cultural studies, history and the material turn 
T2  - Culture, economy and the social
SN  - 9781134015160
AV  - HC260.C3 M38 2010eb
U1  - 306.309171/241 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Infrastructure (Economics)
KW  - Colonies
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - France
KW  - Imperialism
KW  - Impérialisme
KW  - Histoire
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - Cultural Policy
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Cultural
KW  - Popular Culture
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Matter and materialism : a brief prehistory of the present / John Frow -- Locating matter : the place of materiality in urban history / Chris Otter -- The matter of materialism : literary mediations / Bill Brown -- The unintended state / Chandra Mukerji -- Filing the Raj : political technologies of the imperial British state / Patrick Joyce -- Abstraction, materiality and the science of the concrete in engineering practice / Penny Harvey and Hannah Knox -- Camerawork as technical practice in colonial India / Christopher Pinney -- Exploring the senses and exploiting the land : railroads, bodies and measurement in nineteenth-century french colonies / Nélia Dias -- Making and mobilising worlds : assembling and governing the other / Tony Bennett
N2  - This edited collection is a major contribution to the current development of a 'material turn' in the social sciences and humanities. It does so by exploring new understandings of how power is made up and exercised by examining the role of material infrastructures in the organization of state power and the role of material cultural practices in the organization of colonial forms of governance. A diverse range of historical examples is drawn on in illustrating these concerns - from the role of territorial engineering projects in seventeenth-century France through the development of
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