Imperial debris redirects critical focus from ruins as evidence of the past to ruination as the processes through which imperial power occupies the present ann laura stolers introduction is a manifesto a compelling call for postcolonial studies to expand its analytical scope to address the toxic but less perceptible corrosions and violent accruals of colonial aftermaths as well as their durable traces on the material environment and peoples bodies and minds. Imperial debris reflections on ruins and ruination ann laura stoler new school for social research search for more papers by this author ann laura stoler encountering ruination and remnants in a post conflict landscape in western cambodia the asia pacific journal of anthropology 101080 1444221320201755890 1 16 2020. Imperial debris redirects critical focus from ruins as evidence of the past to ruination as the processes through which imperial power occupies the present ann laura stolers introduction is a. Live and what compounded layers o imperial debris do to them ere is nothing unif orm in how the volumes contributors broach the re lationship between ruin and ruination either the opacities