{"title":"Books by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781788735711","title":"Potential History","description":"\u003cb\u003eA passionately urgent call for all of us to unlearn imperialism and repair the violent world we share, from one of our most compelling political theorists\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this theoretical tour-de-force, renowned scholar Ariella Aïsha Azoulay calls on us to recognize the imperial foundations of knowledge and to refuse its strictures and its many violences.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAzoulay argues that the institutions that make our world, from archives and museums to ideas of sovereignty and human rights to history itself, are all dependent on imperial modes of thinking. Imperialism has segmented populations into differentially governed groups, continually emphasized the possibility of progress while it tries to destroy what came before, and voraciously seeks out the new by sealing the past away in dusty archival boxes and the glass vitrines of museums.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy practicing what she calls potential history, Azoulay argues that we can still refuse the original imperial violence that shattered communities, lives, and worlds, from native peoples in the Americas at the moment of conquest to the Congo ruled by Belgium's brutal King Léopold II, from dispossessed Palestinians in 1948 to displaced refugees in our own day. In \u003ci\u003ePotential History\u003c\/i\u003e, Azoulay travels alongside historical companions—an old Palestinian man who refused to leave his village in 1948, an anonymous woman in war-ravaged Berlin, looted objects and documents torn from their worlds and now housed in archives and museums—to chart the ways imperialism has sought to order time, space, and politics. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRather than looking for a new future, Azoulay calls upon us to rewind history and unlearn our imperial rights, to continue to refuse imperial violence by making present what was invented as “past” and making the repair of torn worlds the substance of politics.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56306818449781,"sku":"9781788735711","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781788735711_15f33ec5-f37f-4006-a7f7-8541ec5d9e41.jpg?v=1786027010"},{"product_id":"9781804292594","title":"Civil Imagination","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"This remarkable book enhances Ariella Azoulay’s position as the most compelling theorist of photography writing today.\"\u003cbr\u003e–Jonathan Crary, author of \u003ci\u003eScorched Earth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA groundbreaking work on the power of photography as a vehicle for civil protest\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnderstanding photography is more than a matter of assessing photographs, writes Ariella Azoulay. The photograph is merely one event in a sequence that constitutes photography and which always involves an actual or potential spectator in the relationship between the photographer and the individual portrayed. The shift in focus from product to practice, outlined in \u003ci\u003eCivil Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e, brings to light the way images can both reinforce and resist the oppressive reality foisted upon the people depicted.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough photography, \u003ci\u003eCivil Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e seeks out relations of partnership, solidarity, and sharing that come into being at the expense of sovereign powers that threaten to destroy them. Azoulay argues that the “civil” must be distinguished from the “political” as the interest that citizens have in themselves, in others, in their shared forms of coexistence, as well as in the world they create and transform. Azoulay’s book sketches out a new horizon of civil living for citizens as well as subjects denied citizenship—inevitable partners in a reality they are invited to imagine anew and to reconstruct.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeautifully produced with many illustrations, \u003ci\u003eCivil Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e is a provocative argument for photography as a civic practice capable of reclaiming civil power.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56306930024821,"sku":"9781804292594","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781804292594_46ef6511-98b7-40e6-9285-a2bd65228d45.jpg?v=1786026728"},{"product_id":"9781804293119","title":"The Jewelers of the Ummah","description":"\u003cb\u003eA deeply personal exploration of family, empire, art and identity - from the author of \u003ci\u003ePotential History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCan we return to worlds destroyed by colonial violence? In a series of letters to her father, her great-grandmothers, and her children—and to thinkers such as Frantz Fanon and Hannah Arendt—Ariella Aïsha Azoulay examines the disruption of Jewish Muslim life in Algeria and broadly in the Maghreb and the Middle East by two colonial projects: French rule and the Zionist colonization of Palestine, which provoked the departure of Jews from these areas.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJewelry making was a profession that marked the Algerian Jews’ place in the world they shared in the ummah, the borderless community of Muslims. The objects they crafted continue to unsettle the clear-cut separation of Jews from Muslims and of Jews from Algeria. In this jewelry, and in the history of those who made, wore, and sold it, Azoulay finds a path to reviving the lost wisdom of her ancestors.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEmptying Africa of its Jews is a tragedy which Azoulay refuses to accept. 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