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Craig Campbell, Phd

Associate Professor, Anthropology
Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

e. craig.campbell@utexas.edu
p. 512-232-4342
o. 4.122 WCP Building 4th Floor [map]

Department of Anthropology
2201 Speedway Stop, C3200
University of Texas, Austin
Austin, Tx, 78712

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Out West

Agitating Images: Photography Against History in Indigenous Siberia is published by University of Minnesota Press.

In Agitating Images, Craig Campbell draws a rich and unsettling cultural portrait of the encounter between indigenous Siberians and Russian communists and reveals how photographs from this period complicate our understanding of this history. Ultimately, this book demonstrates how photographs go against accepted premises of Soviet Siberia and dissects our very understanding of the production of historical knowledge.

"The archival turn has had a sobering effect on recent attempts to grapple with the histories of photography but for the best studies––like Craig Campbell’s––the archive itself is part of the historical problem: its internal mechanisms, its effects of power, its production of truth and its techniques of forgetting and erasure––all effects that, as Campbell shows in this highly original work of excavation and disruption, can never be entirely secured against the arbitrariness and disfunction of the archival machine and the troubling liability of archival photographs to slip and slide out of place."

John Tagg, Binghamton University

Visit the "Digital Companion" to Agitating Images.