Mònica Ginés-Blasi, a postdoctoral fellow at the Institut d'Asie Orientale (IAO), in ENS de Lyon, publishes Intentional Invisibilization in Modern Asian History, published by De Gruyter Brill.
Intentional Invisibilization in Modern Asian History
Mònica Ginés-Blasi
Éditions De Gruyter Brill
In their collective work Intentional Invisibilization in Modern Asian History, Mònica Ginés-Blasi and the other authors address the challenge faced by researchers in the humanities and social sciences when writing history beyond the constraints and frameworks imposed by grand narratives and established historiographies.
Thus, they approach the intentional invisibilization and concealment of people, knowledge and ideas in historiography - both by historians and by historical actors themselves - as an object of study. They propose to study this question through the prism of Asian subjugation and dependence in modern and contemporary history. Through studies spanning imperial, colonial and postcolonial history, linguistic and translational studies, as well as the sciences of digital archiving, the authors of this book thus examine the way in which concealment constitutes a strategic tool for exercising power and shaping the circulation of information.