Slow Disturbance
Infrastructural Mediation on the Settler Colonial Resource Frontier
1st Edition
Published on 22. March 2021
240 pages
978-1-4780-1213-9 (ISBN)
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Rafico Ruiz uses the Grenfell Mission in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, to theorize how settler colonialism establishes itself through the building, maintenance, and mediation of site-specific infrastructure.
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Rafico Ruiz is currently the Associate Director of Research at the Canadian Centre for Architecture.
Content
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: First Fish, Then Mediation 1
The Way It Was, St. Anthony, 1959 28
1. The Plant 45
Slow Disturbance, "5 Canada" 78
2. Credit and Common Sense 79
The Way It Was, St. Anthony, 2011 111
3. Meta Incognita 120
Slow Disturbance, "Channel 12" 150
4. The Promise of Extraction 153
Slow Disturbance, "Samsung, High Speed Mechanism" 174
The Way It Was, St. Anthony, 1997 176
Notes 181
Bibliography 203
Index 217
Introduction: First Fish, Then Mediation 1
The Way It Was, St. Anthony, 1959 28
1. The Plant 45
Slow Disturbance, "5 Canada" 78
2. Credit and Common Sense 79
The Way It Was, St. Anthony, 2011 111
3. Meta Incognita 120
Slow Disturbance, "Channel 12" 150
4. The Promise of Extraction 153
Slow Disturbance, "Samsung, High Speed Mechanism" 174
The Way It Was, St. Anthony, 1997 176
Notes 181
Bibliography 203
Index 217
