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An article by Assistant Professor of History Rebecca Gruskin appears in a special issue of the journal Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. “‘A Nonexistent Incapacity’: Tracing Chronic Injury through X-Ray Images in Colonial Tunisia’s Gafsa Phosphate Mines (1920s–1930s)” explores the use of X-rays in determining which mine workers’ injuries were real and which were fake.

“Rather than asking what X-ray images show diagnostically,” Gruskin said, the “article charts how the creation of visibility and invisibility was a political act, a tactic of capital accumulation, and an arena of contestation.”

Gruskin said the article emerged from her participation in a 2021 environmental humanities Mellon Sawyer Seminar. It appears in a section on “Following Absence,” along with articles by other seminar participants.

Posted November 26, 2024

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