{"product_id":"circulations-courtney-handman-9780520416000","title":"Circulations: Modernist Imaginaries of Colonialism and Decolonization in Papua New Guinea","description":"\u003cb\u003eA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eCirculations\u003c\/i\u003e, Courtney Handman examines the surprising continuities in modernist communication discourses that 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 to the United Nations that spearheaded demands for Papua New Guinea's independence in the 1950s, argued that this circulatory primitivity would only be overcome through the management of communications infrastructures, bureaucratic information flows, and the introduction of English. Innovatively bringing together analyses of communications infrastructures such as radios, airplanes, telepathy, bureaucracy, and lingua francas, \u003ci\u003eCirculations\u003c\/i\u003e argues for the critical role of communicative networks and communicative imaginaries in political processes of colonialism and decolonization worldwide.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Courtney Handman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520416007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520416000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/06\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 241\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Courtney Handman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46372707959039,"sku":"9780520416000","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d6e6efeb-73e4-4413-88a4-0335059ee2c9.jpg?v=1732726724","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/circulations-courtney-handman-9780520416000","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}