{"product_id":"slow-disturbance-9781478008507","title":"Slow Disturbance","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom 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 \u003ci\u003eSlow Disturbance\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“At this moment of reckoning, where histories of colonial violence and their afterlives in economies of extractivism are at the center of struggle, \u003ci\u003eSlow Disturbance\u003c\/i\u003e offers a powerful and nuanced account of the infrastructural making of the resource frontier. A must-read for those invested in understanding and transforming settler colonial materialities and ecologies.” -- Deborah Cowen, author of * The Deadly Life of Logistics: Mapping Violence in Global Trade *\u003cbr\u003e“Rafico Ruiz makes a critical contribution to media studies, settler colonial studies, and studies of infrastructure and the environment. A fantastic book.” -- Nicole Starosielski, author of * The Undersea Network *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSlow Disturbance\u003c\/i\u003e is a valuable and much-needed text that provides thoughtful insights into the ways that resource frontiers are made and enacted through small and slow efforts to sustain settler lives. Ruiz brings a critical eye to the ways that media multiply functions in these colonial projects, opening up space for new approaches to reading colonial archives in relation to their material environments.\" -- Cameron Butler * Public *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: First Fish, Then Mediation  1\u003cbr\u003e The Way It Was, St. Anthony, 1959  28\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Plant  45\u003cbr\u003e Slow Disturbance, \"5 Canada\"  78\u003cbr\u003e 2. Credit and Common Sense  79\u003cbr\u003e The Way It Was, St. Anthony, 2011  111\u003cbr\u003e 3. Meta Incognita  120\u003cbr\u003e Slow Disturbance, \"Channel 12\"  150\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Promise of Extraction  153\u003cbr\u003e Slow Disturbance, \"Samsung, High Speed Mechanism\"  174\u003cbr\u003e The Way It Was, St. Anthony, 1997  176\u003cbr\u003e Notes  181\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  203\u003cbr\u003e Index  217","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408983957847,"sku":"9781478008507","price":18.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478008507.jpg?v=1730504965","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/slow-disturbance-9781478008507","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}