Rubble: The Afterlife of Destruction

by Gaston R. Gordillo

Book Overview

At the foot of the Argentine Andes, bulldozers are destroying forests and homes to create soy fields in an area already strewn with rubble from previous waves of destruction and violence. Based on ethnographic research in this region where the mountains give way to the Gran Chaco lowlands, Gast n R. Gordillo shows how geographic space is inseparable from the material, historical, and affective ruptures embodied in debris. His exploration of the significance...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822356198
• ISBN13: 9780822356196
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"