[Linganth] Courtney Handman - tomorrow

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
I am so pleased to announce that the CaMP reading group is starting up
again this year with Courtney Handman as the featured author tomorrow.
Courtney Handman has asked us to read her introduction and chapter 3.
Please read as much as you can, but do feel free to join us even if you
haven't managed to read everything.

The reading can be found here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/19VU3KfKBskb3se1Ov2nqJfFrpc63BMpP/view?usp=sharing

The whole book is available open access here:
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/circulations/paper

The meeting will be at noon to 1 pm east coast time -tomorrow -Friday,
January 30th and can be reached by clicking on this Zoom link:

  https://iu.zoom.us/j/949202698 <https://iu.zoom.us/j/949202698>

If you want to see the full line-up for this year, you can find it here:
https://campanthropology.org/virtual-reading-group/

Looking forward to seeing you all virtually,

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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