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Circulations: Modernist Imaginaries of Colonialism and Decolonization in Papua New Guinea

Circulations: Modernist Imaginaries of Colonialism and Decolonization in Papua New Guinea

Handman, Courtney

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AnthropologyGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 0520416007
ISBN13: 9780520416000
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Apr 29 2025
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
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In Circulations, Courtney Handman examines the surprising continuities in the ways that modernist communications discourses shaped both colonial and decolonial projects in Papua New Guinea. Often described as a place with too many mountains and too many languages to be modern, Papua New Guinea was seen as a space of circulatory primitivity--where people, things, and talk could not move. Colonial missionaries and administrators, and even anticolonial delegations of the United Nations Trusteeship Council, argued that this circulatory primitivity could be overcome only through the management of communication infrastructures, bureaucratic information flows, and the introduction of English. Innovatively bringing together analyses of radios, airplanes, telepathy, bureaucracy, and lingua francas, Circulations argues for the critical role of communicative networks and communicative imaginaries in political processes of colonialism and decolonization worldwide.

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