Decay
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Decay

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Decay

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In eleven sharp essays, the contributors to Decay attend to the processes and experiences of symbolic and material decay in a variety of sociopolitical contexts across the globe. They examine decay in its myriad manifestationsā€”biological, physical, organizational, moral, political, personal, and social and in numerous contexts, including colonialism and imperialism, governments and the state, racism, the environment, and infrastructure. The volume's topics are wide in scope, ranging from the discourse of social decay in contemporary Australian settler colonialism and the ways infrastructures both create and experience decay to cultural decay in the aftermath of the Sri Lankan civil war and the relations among individual, institutional, and societal decay in an American high-security prison. By using decay as a problematic and expounding its mechanisms, conditions, and temporalities, the contributors provide nuanced and rigorous means to more fully grapple with the exigencies of the current sociopolitical moment.

Contributors. Cameo Dalley, Peter D. Dwyer, Akhil Gupta, Ghassan Hage, Michael Herzfeld, Elise Klein, Bart Klem, Tamara Kohn, Michael Main, Fabio Mattioli, Debra McDougall, Monica Minnegal, Violeta Schubert

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction: States of Decay | Ghassan Hage
  5. 1. Forever ā€œFalling Apartā€: Semiotics and Rhetorics of Decay | Violeta Schubert
  6. 2. Trash and Treasure: Pathologies of Permanence on the Margins of Our Plastic Age | Debra McDougall
  7. 3. Infrastructure as Decay and the Decay of Infrastructure | Akhil Gupta
  8. 4. The Waterfall at the End of the World: Earthquakes, Entropy, and Explanation | Monica Minnegal, Michael Main, and Peter D. Dwyer
  9. 5. ā€œVile Corpseā€: Urban Decay as Human Beauty and Social Pollution | Michael Herzfeld
  10. 6. Decay or Fresh Contact? The Morality of Mixture after Warā€™s End | Bart Klem
  11. 7. Seeds of Decay | Fabio Mattioli
  12. 8. Discourses of Decay in Settler Colonial Australia | Elise Klein
  13. 9. Decay as Decline in Social Viability among Ex-Militiamen in Lebanon | Ghassan Hage
  14. 10. Relational Decay: White Helpers in Australiaā€™s Indigenous Communities | Cameo Dalley
  15. 11. Decay, Rot, Mold, and Resistance in the US Prison System | Tamara Kohn
  16. References
  17. Contributors
  18. Index