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Material Powers Thiseditedcollectionisamajorcontributiontothecurrentdevelopmentofa‘materialturn’ inthesocialsciencesandhumanities.Itexploresnewunderstandingsofhowpowerismade upandexercisedbyexaminingtheroleofmaterialinfrastructuresintheorganisationof statepowerandtheroleofmaterialculturalpracticesintheorganisationofcolonialforms ofgovernance. A diverse range of historical examples is drawn on in illustrating these concerns – from the role of territorial engineering projects in seventeenth-century France through thedevelopmentofbureaucraticinformationsystemsinnineteenth-centuryBritaintothe relationsbetweenthestateandroad-buildingincontemporaryPeru,forexample.Similarly, thecolonialcontextsexaminedarevaried,rangingfromtheroleofphotographicpractices in the constitution of colonial power in India and the measurement of the bodies of the colonised in French colonial practices to the part played by the relations between museumsandexpeditionsintheorganisationofAustralianformsofcolonialrule.These specificconcernsareconnectedtomajorcriticalre-examinationsofthelimitsoftheearlier formulationsofculturalmaterialismandthelogicofthe‘culturalturn’. The collection brings together a group of key international scholars whose work has playedaleadingroleindebatesinandacrossthefieldsofhistory,visualculturestudies, anthropology,geography,culturalstudies,museumstudiesandliterarystudies. Tony Bennett is Research Professor of Social and Cultural Theory in the Centre for Cultural Research at the University of Western Sydney. He is also a Professorial Fellow in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne and Visiting Research Professor at the Open University in the UK. Recent publications includeCulture:AReformer’sScience (Sage,1998),PastsBeyondMemory:Evolution, Museums, Colonialism (Routledge, 2004) and Culture, Class, Distinction, with Mike Savage,ElizabethSilva,AlanWarde,ModestoGayo-CalandDavidWright(Routledge, 2008). Patrick Joyce is Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Manchester, and currentlyVisitingProfessorofSociologyattheLondonSchoolofEconomicsandFernand BraudelFellowinHistoryattheEuropeanUniversityInstitute,Florence.Hehaspublished widely on the history of work, class and popular politics, in recent times developing an interest in historical aspects of governmentality. His publications include Visions of the People (Cambridge University Press, 1991), The Oxford Reader on Class (Oxford UniversityPress,1995),TheSocialinQuestion(Routledge,2001)andTheRuleofFreedom (Verso,2003). Culture, economy and the social A new series from CRESC – the ESRC centre for research on socio-cultural change Editors ProfessorTonyBennett,CentreforCulturalResearch,University ofWesternSydney ProfessorPennyHarvey,Anthropology,ManchesterUniversity ProfessorKevinHetherington,Geography,OpenUniversity EditorialAdvisoryBoard AndrewBarry,UniversityofOxford MichelCallon,EcoledesMinesdeParis DipeshChakrabarty,TheUniversityofChicago MikeCrang,UniversityofDurham TimDant,LancasterUniversity Jean-LouisFabiani,EcolesdeHautesEtudesenSciencesSociales AntoineHennion,ParisInstituteofTechnology EricHirsch,BrunelUniversity JohnLaw,OpenUniversity RandyMartin,NewYorkUniversity TimothyMitchell,NewYorkUniversity RollandMunro,KeeleUniversity AndrewPickering,UniversityofExeter MaryPoovey,NewYorkUniversity HughWillmott,UniversityofCardiff SharonZukin,BrooklynCollegeCityUniversityNewYork/GraduateSchool, CityUniversityofNewYork TheCulture,EconomyandtheSocial seriesiscommittedtoinnovativecontem- porary,comparativeandhistoricalworkontherelationsbetweensocial,cultural andeconomicchange.Itpublishesempirically-basedresearchthatistheoretically informed,thatcriticallyexaminesthewaysinwhichsocial,culturalandeconomic changeisframedandmadevisible,andthatisattentivetoperspectivesthattendto beignoredorside-linedbygrandtheorisingorepochalaccountsofsocialchange. Theseriesaddressesthediversemanifestationsofcontemporarycapitalism,and considersthevariouswaysinwhichthe‘social’,‘thecultural’and‘theeconomic’ areapprehendedastangiblesitesofvalueandpractice.Itisexplicitlycomparative, publishingbooksthatworkacrossdisciplinaryperspectives,cross-culturally,or acrossdifferenthistoricalperiods. The series is actively engaged in the analysis of the different theoretical traditions that have contributed to the development of the ‘cultural turn’ with a view to clarifying where these approaches converge and where they diverge onaparticularissue.Itisequallyconcernedtoexplorethenewcriticalagendas emerging from current critiques of the cultural turn: those associated with the descriptiveturnforexample.Ourcommitmenttointerdisciplinaritythusaimsat enriching theoretical and methodological discussion, building awareness of the commongroundthathasemergedinthepastdecade,andthinkingthroughwhat isatstakeinthoseapproachesthatresistintegrationtoacommonanalyticalmodel. Seriestitlesinclude: TheMediaandSocialTheory(2008) EditedbyDavidHesmondhalghandJasonToynbee Culture,Class,Distinction(2009) Tony Bennett, Mike Savage, Elizabeth Bortolaia Silva, Alan Warde, Modesto Gayo-CalandDavidWright MaterialPowers(2010) EditedbyTonyBennettandPatrickJoyce TheSocialafterGabrielTarde:DebatesandAssessments(forthcoming) EditedbyMateiCandea CulturalAnalysisandBourdieu’sLegacy(forthcoming) EditedbyElizabethSilvaandAlanWarde Milk,ModernityandtheMakingoftheHuman(forthcoming) RichieNimmo CreativeLabour–MediaWorkinThreeCulturalIndustries(forthcoming) DavidHesmondhalghandSarahBaker RiodeJaneiro:UrbanLifethroughtheEyesoftheCity(forthcoming) BeatrizJaguaribe Material Powers Cultural studies, history and the material turn Edited by Tony Bennett and Patrick Joyce Firstpublished2010 byRoutledge 2ParkSquare,MiltonPark,Abingdon,Oxon,OX144RN SimultaneouslypublishedintheUSAandCanada byRoutledge 270MadisonAvenue,NewYork,NY10016 RoutledgeisanimprintoftheTaylor&FrancisGroup,aninforma business ©2010TonyBennettandPatrickJoyceforselectionandeditorial material,individualcontributorsfortheircontributions TypesetinTimesNewRomanbyGlyphInternationalLtd. PrintedandboundinGreatBritainbyCPIAntonyRowe,Chippenham, Wiltshire Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereprintedorreproducedor utilisedinanyformorbyanyelectronic,mechanical,orothermeans,now knownorhereafterinvented,includingphotocopyingandrecording,orin anyinformationstorageorretrievalsystem,withoutpermissioninwriting fromthepublishers. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData Acatalogrecordforthisbookhasbeenrequested ISBN:978-0-415-48303-2(hbk) ISBN:978-0-415-60314-0(pbk) ISBN:978-0-203-88387-X(ebk) Contents Listoffigures ix Contributors x Acknowledgements xiii Materialpowers:introduction 1 PATRICK JOYCE AND TONY BENNETT PART1 Ahistoryofthecategories 23 1 Matterandmaterialism:abriefpre-historyofthepresent 25 JOHN FROW 2 Locatingmatter:theplaceofmaterialityinurbanhistory 38 CHRIS OTTER 3 Thematterofmaterialism:literarymediations 60 BILL BROWN PART2 Assemblingthestate 79 4 Theunintendedstate 81 CHANDRA MUKERJI 5 FilingtheRaj:politicaltechnologiesoftheImperialBritishstate 102 PATRICK JOYCE viii Contents 6 Abstraction,materialityandthe‘scienceoftheconcrete’in engineeringpractice 124 PENNY HARVEY AND HANNAH KNOX PART3 Colonialmaterialities 143 7 CameraworkastechnicalpracticeincolonialIndia 145 CHRISTOPHER PINNEY 8 Exploringthesensesandexploitingtheland:Railroads, bodiesandmeasurementinnineteenth-centuryFrenchcolonies 171 NÉLIA DIAS 9 Makingandmobilisingworlds:assemblingand governingtheother 190 TONY BENNETT Index 209 Figures 5.1 Toppageoffile2101/1900 115 5.2 Thesecondpageoffile2101/1900 116 7.1 AbodyinIndianclothes:thecamerarecords,thecaption normalises.SaltedpaperprintbyAhmadAliKhanc.1856–7 152 7.2 NawabRajBegumSahiba.Saltedpaperprintc.1855byAhmad AliKhanwithwatercoloursurround 153 7.3 OnepagefromAnIllustratedHistoricalAlbumoftheRajasand TaaluqdarsofOudh,1880.Fourtipped-inalbumenprintsby AbbasAli 155 7.4 ‘MalwaBheels’.PhotographbyJamesWaterhouse1862,asit appearedinThePeopleofIndia1868–1875.Tipped-inalbumen print 157 7.5 Thepresenceofpaintsignifieshigherstatus.Overpainted albumenprint,westernIndia,latenineteenthcentury 160 7.6 Thepresenceofpaintsignifieslowerstatus.TheseSvetambara Jainmonks’attendantsbearmarksoftheircontinuingattachment totheworld.Overpaintedalbumenprint,westernIndia,late nineteenthcentury 161 Contributors Tony Bennett is Research Professor in Social and Cultural Theory in the Centre of Cultural Research at the University of Western Sydney. He is also Visiting Professor at the Open University and a Professorial Fellow in the SchoolofCultureandCommunicationattheUniversityofMelbourne.Recent publications include Culture: A Reformer’s Science; Pasts Beyond Memory: Evolution, Museums, Colonialism; New Keywords: A Revised Vocabulary of CultureandSociety (editedwithLarryGrossbergandMeaghanMorris);and Culture, Class, Distinction (with Mike Savage, Elizabeth Silva, Alan Warde, ModestoGayo-CalandDavidWright). BillBrownisGeorgeM.PullmanProfessorofEnglishandtheHistoryofCulture attheUniversityofChicagoandco-editorof CriticalInquiry.Heistheauthor of TheMaterialUnconscious(1996)andASenseofThings:TheObjectMatter ofAmericanLiterature(2003).Heisalsotheeditorof Things(2004). Nélia Dias is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the UniversityofLisbon(Portugal).Sheistheauthorof LeMuséed’Ethnographie du Trocadéro. Anthropologie et Muséologie en France (Paris, CNRS, 1991) and La Mesure des Sens. Les Anthropologues et le corps humain au 19e siècle (Paris, Aubier, 2004) and of several articles on the history of French anthropologyandonethnographicmuseumsfromthenineteenthcenturytothe present. She is currently working on the relationships between quantification and the classification of categories of people in nineteenth-century physical anthropologyandmedicaldiscourses. John Frow is Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Melbourne. He is the author of Marxism and Literary History (1986); Australian Cultural Studies: A Reader (ed. with Meaghan Morris, 1993); Cultural Studies and Cultural Value (1995); Time and Commodity Culture (1997); Accounting for Tastes: Australian Everyday Cultures (with Tony BennettandMichaelEmmison,1999),andGenre(2006). Penny Harvey is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester.HerregionalspecialisationisinSouthAmericaandEurope,and shehasconductedfieldworkinPeru,SpainandtheUK.Herresearchinterests
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