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[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
Today on the CaMP blog, Rachel Apone interviews Courtney Handman about her
open access book, *Circulations: Modernist Imaginaries of Colonialism and
Decolonization in Papua New Guinea.*

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Best,
Ilana

Press blurb: In *Circulations*, Courtney Handman examines the surprising
continuities in the ways that modernist communications discourses shaped
both colonial and decolonial projects in Papua New Guinea. Often described
as a place with too many mountains and too many languages to be modern,
Papua New Guinea was seen as a space of circulatory primitivity—where
people, things, and talk could not move. Colonial missionaries and
administrators, and even anticolonial delegations of the United Nations
Trusteeship Council, argued that this circulatory primitivity could be
overcome only through the management of communication infrastructures,
bureaucratic information flows, and the introduction of English.
Innovatively bringing together analyses of radios, airplanes, telepathy,
bureaucracy, and lingua francas, *Circulations* argues for the critical
role of communicative networks and communicative imaginaries in political
processes of colonialism and decolonization worldwide.
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