Potential History keyword-deconstruction through an investigation of phenomenon

through an investigation of phenomenon as diverse as the novels The Age of Innocence and The Remains of the Day

from the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution to the social convulsions of the reform era to China’s global push today

often devastating

in a comprehensive range of films from Point Blank

These seminal events

Potential History keyword-deconstruction through an investigation of phenomenonIn this theoretical tour de force, renowned scholar Ariella Asha 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 all dependent on imperial modes of thinking. Imperialism has segmented populations into differentially governed