Ann Laura Stoler
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“Exceptionalism" is a shared self-description of imperial forms and . . . every empire imagines itself an exception.”
― Haunted by Empire: Geographies of Intimacy in North American History
― Haunted by Empire: Geographies of Intimacy in North American History
“ask what sorts of rethinking and reformulations might allow a better understanding of the political grammar of colonialism’s durable presence, the dispositions it fosters, the indignities it nourishes, the indignations that are responsive to those effects.”
― Duress: Imperial Durabilities in Our Times
― Duress: Imperial Durabilities in Our Times
“eviscerated from any connection to U.S. imperial pursuits for so long. Israeli occupation of Palestine was treated as a Zionist issue, relegated as a “shatter zone” in international politics, as a salutary history of democratic nation making, as a liberation struggle from British rule. Only now are Israeli policies publicly and loudly enunciated as the combined ferocity of high-tech and lowly, daily creations and reorderings of ever more present distinctions and discriminations, as cumulative and amplified accretions of colonial presence, violently, deliberately, and carefully designed.”
― Duress: Imperial Durabilities in Our Times
― Duress: Imperial Durabilities in Our Times
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