heidi andrea restrepo rhodes

Afterlives of Discovery

Speculative Geographies in the Settler Colonial Imaginary

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Traces global and national histories as they entangle through the concept and material life of Discovery across Colombiaâ s evolution into a liberal settler colonial state. Given that Colombiaâ s national past, present, and future are grounded in Discovery, restrepo rhodes asks How is it possible to build futures that escape Discoveryâ s grasp?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 452g
• ISBN-13: 9781478031765
• ISBN-10: 147803176X
• Artikelnr.: 71162308

Autorenporträt

heidi andrea restrepo rhodes is Visiting Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at Pomona College and author of The Inheritance of Haunting .

Inhaltsangabe

Preface  xi
Introduction. Speculative Imaginaries in the Afterlives of Discovery:
Space-Time (Con)Fabulations  1
1. Figuring Discovery and Dominium: A Lingering Mytho-Poetics and Property
Regime  37
2. Writing the Earth into the World: Speculative Geography and the
Emplacement of Settler Futurity  75
3. Settler Horizons, Colonizing Affects: Repetitions in the Archive and the
Psychosocial Mapping of Colombian National Identity  106
4. Rediscovery in the Light of the Future: Territorialization and the
Demographic Catastrophe in Colombian Geographic Speculation  135
5. Corpus Nullius and the Traffick in Blood: Biocolonialism and Human
Futurity in the Afterlives of Discovery  152
Coda. Un futuro sin conquistadores (A Future Without Conquistadores)  192
Acknowledgments  203
Notes  209
Bibliography  255
Index  275