Slow Disturbance
Title | Slow Disturbance PDF eBook |
Author | Rafico Ruiz |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 150 |
Release | 2021-03-22 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1478012137 |
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.
Bulletin
Title | Bulletin PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 794 |
Release | 1922 |
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Bulletin of the Imperial Earthquake Investigation Committee
Title | Bulletin of the Imperial Earthquake Investigation Committee PDF eBook |
Author | Shinsai Yobō Chōsakai (Japan) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 824 |
Release | 1922 |
Genre | Earthquake prediction |
ISBN |
Changes and Disturbance in Tropical Rainforest in South-East Asia
Title | Changes and Disturbance in Tropical Rainforest in South-East Asia PDF eBook |
Author | D. M. Newbery |
Publisher | World Scientific |
Pages | 194 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 1860942431 |
Views on the dynamics of tropical forests are changing rapidly with the recognition that their environment is variable on the decadal to century scale. Fluctuating climatic conditions partly determine tropical forest structure, species composition and dynamics. Tropical communities are also highly contingent in space and time with respect to site and historical factors. Tropical forests have experienced to some degree this disturbance regime in the past, but climatologists are now predicting increasingly frequent extreme events in the new century. The combination of increasing deforestation and land-use conversion by man plus an increasingly variable environment means a situation that could be very difficult to manage.
Biomedical Index to PHS-supported Research
Title | Biomedical Index to PHS-supported Research PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1224 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Medicine |
ISBN |
The Physical Geology and Geography of Great Britain
Title | The Physical Geology and Geography of Great Britain PDF eBook |
Author | Ramsay |
Publisher | |
Pages | 402 |
Release | 1872 |
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The Physical Geology and Geography of Great Britain
Title | The Physical Geology and Geography of Great Britain PDF eBook |
Author | Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
Publisher | |
Pages | 380 |
Release | 1874 |
Genre | Geography |
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