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Explosivity
2025
Overview
How explosions across history reveal the violence
embedded in San Francisco’s landscape
Offering a novel approach to contemporary landscape studies,
Explosivity unearths the hidden legacies of violence
that have shaped the physical and cultural environment of the
San Francisco Bay area. As he sifts through the historical
debris of previous centuries, Javier Arbona-Homar analyzes a
series of explosions that took place between 1866 and 2011 to
call attention to the scattered remnants of militarism and
racialized capitalism embedded in the region’s
geography.
From incidents involving nineteenth-century explosives
manufacturing and World War II munitions loading to radical
activism and contemporary television productions, Arbona-Homar
locates a pattern of historical violence that refocuses the
broader racial and colonial context. Citing the material,
social, and political conditions that gave rise to these
disparate episodes, he reviews the historic erasure of those
driving forces and puts forth alternative possibilities for how
such disasters might be memorialized.
Synthesizing a diverse set of field research methods,
including oral histories and site visits, and supplemented by
specially commissioned landscape photographs by Andrea Gaffney,
Explosivity presents a radical exercise in the
exposition of public memory.
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Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Subject
ISBN
9781517918842, 1517918847, 9781452973036, 1452973032
