Rethinking the colonial state

• Other Authors: Rud, Søren (editing.), Ivarsson, Søren (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, UK : Emerald Publishing, 2017.
• Edition: First edition.
• Series: Political power and social theory ; v. 33.
• Subjects: Colonies > Administration.; Colonization.; elektronické knihy; electronic books

This volume addresses the analytical challenges of the colonial state from a variety of theoretical and thematic angles, and across a range of empirical cases that stretch over a vast span historically and geographically, to provide a new approach to analyzing the colonial state and its governmental...

Table of Contents:

• Front Cover; Rethinking the Colonial State; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Contributors; Senior Editorial Board; Student Editorial Board; Editorial Statement; Series Editor's Introduction; Rethinking the Colonial State: Configurations of Power, Violence, and Agency; The Colonial State as a Field; Practicing the Colonial State; Colonial Violence; Agency and the Colonial State; Rethinking the Colonial State; Notes; References; Colonial Governmentality in Puerto Rico and the Philippines: Sovereign Force, Governmental Rationality, and Disciplinary Institutions Under Us Rule.
• Introduction: The Dispositive of GovernmentalityPrelude: The Spanish Colonies of Puerto Rico and the Philippines; Sovereign Impositions and the Transition to Biopolitics; Common Schools in the Colonies: The Architecture of Discipline; Professionalization and Resistance; Conclusion; Note; References; Comparing the Colonial State
• Governing "the Social" and Policing the Population in Late 18th Century India and Denmark; Comparison and the Colonial State; Rethinking Tranquebar's Colonial State and Society; Policing "the Social" in Late 18th Century Tranquebar.
• Political Modernity and the Concept of "Security"Policing and Normalizing the Individual; Overcoming the Chaos of the Population; Multiplying and Utilizing the Colonial Population; Conclusions: Race, Nation, and Colonialism; References; Published Works; Governing the Risks of Slavery: State-Practice, Slave Law, and the Problem of Public Order in 18th Century Danish West Indies; Introduction; Foucault's State; The Danish West Indies in the 18th Century; Risks of Slavery; Laws of Slavery and the Regulation of Public Order; The Strategic Ethics of Slavery and Dispositifs of Security.
• The State as Practice in the Danish West Indies and beyondNotes; References; Ordering Resistance: The Late Colonial State in the Portuguese Empire (1940-1975); Introduction; On the Development of the Late Colonial State; The Ordering of Resistance: On Repressive Developmentalism; Conclusion; References; Violence as Usual: Everyday Police Work and the Colonial State in German Southwest Africa; Men of Honor; Everyday Police Work: The Art of Making Do and Eigensinn; Everyday Practices of Normalized Violence; Conclusion; Notes; Acknowledgments; References.
• Colonial War and the Production of Territorialized State Space in North AfricaColonial States, War, and the Relational Production of Territory; Precolonial Political Topography in the Rif and Cyrenaica; Pluralistic Political Order and the Shift from Limited to Total Colonial "Pacification"; Counter-Imagining Political Space through Anti-Colonial Mobilization; Total Colonial War and Territorializing State Space; Conclusion; Notes; References; Resistance and Reforms: The Role of Subaltern Agency in Colonial State Development; Introduction; Colonizers and the Colonial State.