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This chapter considers the conceptual potential of ruin and ruination. Drawing on the work of Brian Dillon, Rebecca Solnit, Toni Morrison, Ann Laura Stoler, Audre Lorde, Eve Tuck and C. Ree, this chapter suggests that ruins are unsettling but also, a necessary step towards social change. Indeed, ruin’s haunted, crumbling structures—material, metaphorical, and embodied—reveal the artifice of imperial and colonial processes and practices.
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Boon, S., Butler, L., Jefferies, D. (2018). Colonialism: Ruins. In: Autoethnography and Feminist Theory at the Water's Edge. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90829-8_12
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