{"product_id":"explosivity-following-what-remains-hardback-9781517918835","title":"Explosivity; Following What Remains (Hardback) 9781517918835","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eExplosivity\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eFollowing What Remains\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJavier Arbona-Homar (Author), Andrea Gaffney (By (photographer))\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781517918835\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 April 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e248 pages, 16 b\u0026amp;w illustrations, 1 map\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.3 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"Javier Arbona-Homar takes us through landscapes shaped by violent explosions, whose aftermath rips time and space alike. Through gripping geostories rooted in the San Francisco Bay Area, he unearths the unyielding traces of racial capitalism and militarization, challenging us to think about how we remember, forget, and live with destruction. Written with the precision of a geographer and the soul of a radical artist, \u003ci\u003eExplosivity\u003c\/i\u003e is a vital guide to confronting the latent violence embedded in our environments.\"-Trevor Paglen, MacArthur Fellow, artist, and author \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eExplosivity\u003c\/i\u003e blasts open how we define harm, exposing the systemic erasure of minor histories and the violent reinscription of memory in ‘afterblast’ landscapes. Organizing an unruly spatial archive of sites bearing repression and radical response, Javier Arbona-Homar experiments with decolonial practices of sensing explosivity and its consequences to defy cultural memoricide, vindicate the dead from the continuing afterlife of racial punishment and economic extraction, and create copresence and care for the scattered remains all around us.\"-Shiloh Krupar, author of \u003ci\u003eHot Spotter’s Report: Military Fables of Toxic Waste\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow explosions across history reveal the violence embedded in San Francisco’s landscape\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Offering a novel approach to contemporary landscape studies, \u003ci\u003eExplosivity\u003c\/i\u003e unearths the hidden legacies of violence that have shaped the physical and cultural environment of the San Francisco Bay area. As he sifts through the historical debris of previous centuries, Javier Arbona-Homar analyzes a series of explosions that took place between 1866 and 2011 to call attention to the scattered remnants of militarism and racialized capitalism embedded in the region’s geography. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e From incidents involving nineteenth-century explosives manufacturing and World War II munitions loading to radical activism and contemporary television productions, Arbona-Homar locates a pattern of historical violence that refocuses the broader racial and colonial context. Citing the material, social, and political conditions that gave rise to these disparate episodes, he reviews the historic erasure of those driving forces and puts forth alternative possibilities for how such disasters might be memorialized. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Synthesizing a diverse set of field research methods, including oral histories and site visits, and supplemented by specially commissioned landscape photographs by Andrea Gaffney, \u003ci\u003eExplosivity\u003c\/i\u003e presents a radical exercise in the exposition of public memory. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRetail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly with images accompanied by short alt text and\/or extended descriptions.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e Contents\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e Map\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Package \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 1. Suspect\u003cbr\u003e 2. Punishment\u003cbr\u003e 3. Memorial\u003cbr\u003e 4. Landscape\u003cbr\u003e 5. Accident \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Conclusion: Remains\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52619261247768,"sku":"9781517918835","price":56.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/explosivity-following-what-remains-hardback-9781517918835","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}