Walter D. Mignolo
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691156095
- eISBN:
- 9781400845064
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691156095.003.0002
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology
This chapter explores theoretical responses to and departures from the modern world system. The first part looks into Anibal Quijano's concept of “coloniality of power” and Enrique Dussel's ...
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This chapter explores theoretical responses to and departures from the modern world system. The first part looks into Anibal Quijano's concept of “coloniality of power” and Enrique Dussel's “transmodernity” as responses to global designs from colonial histories and legacies in Latin America. The second part is devoted to Abdelkhebir Khatibi's “double critique” and “une pensée autre” (an other thinking) as a response from colonial histories and legacies in Maghreb. The chapter also studies Edouard Glissant's notion of “Créolization,” proposed to account for the colonial experience of the Caribbean in the horizon of modernity and as a new epistemological principle. These perspectives, from Spanish America, Maghreb, and the Caribbean, contribute today to rethinking, critically, the limits of the modern world system—the need to conceive it as a modern/colonial world system and to tell stories not only from inside the “modern” world but from its borders.Less
This chapter explores theoretical responses to and departures from the modern world system. The first part looks into Anibal Quijano's concept of “coloniality of power” and Enrique Dussel's “transmodernity” as responses to global designs from colonial histories and legacies in Latin America. The second part is devoted to Abdelkhebir Khatibi's “double critique” and “une pensée autre” (an other thinking) as a response from colonial histories and legacies in Maghreb. The chapter also studies Edouard Glissant's notion of “Créolization,” proposed to account for the colonial experience of the Caribbean in the horizon of modernity and as a new epistemological principle. These perspectives, from Spanish America, Maghreb, and the Caribbean, contribute today to rethinking, critically, the limits of the modern world system—the need to conceive it as a modern/colonial world system and to tell stories not only from inside the “modern” world but from its borders.
Charles Forsdick
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198160144
- eISBN:
- 9780191673795
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198160144.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature
This chapter explores the concept of colonial literature. By placing Victor Segalen's exoticism in a colonial frame, it argues that texts emerging from ...
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This chapter explores the concept of colonial literature. By placing Victor Segalen's exoticism in a colonial frame, it argues that texts emerging from colonial contact are not necessarily only part of a problematic archive, but can also propose novel solutions to contemporary investigations of colonial history and culture. It locates Segalen's concept of ‘exotisme’ within its contemporary French New Imperialist background whilst at the same time considering its precursory relation to current understandings of representation of otherness within French literature. It contrasts Segalen's early twentieth-century absorption into colonial literature with radically divergent late twentieth-century post-colonial approaches to his work. In assessing Segalen and his aesthetics within their colonial context, this chapter considers the relatively unstudied links of his work with la littérature coloniale, the author's casting as le Kipling français, and his association with the colonial official and ideologue Charles Régismanset.Less
This chapter explores the concept of colonial literature. By placing Victor Segalen's exoticism in a colonial frame, it argues that texts emerging from colonial contact are not necessarily only part of a problematic archive, but can also propose novel solutions to contemporary investigations of colonial history and culture. It locates Segalen's concept of ‘exotisme’ within its contemporary French New Imperialist background whilst at the same time considering its precursory relation to current understandings of representation of otherness within French literature. It contrasts Segalen's early twentieth-century absorption into colonial literature with radically divergent late twentieth-century post-colonial approaches to his work. In assessing Segalen and his aesthetics within their colonial context, this chapter considers the relatively unstudied links of his work with la littérature coloniale, the author's casting as le Kipling français, and his association with the colonial official and ideologue Charles Régismanset.
Deryck M. Schreuder and Stuart Ward
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199563739
- eISBN:
- 9780191701894
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199563739.003.0016
- Subject:
- History, World Modern History
This introductory chapter explains the coverage of this book, which is about the Australian experience of empire. It aims to show how Australia’s empire was as much the project of the colony as of ...
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This introductory chapter explains the coverage of this book, which is about the Australian experience of empire. It aims to show how Australia’s empire was as much the project of the colony as of the metropole, as much the product of the Australian imagination as of the British Colonial Office. This book examines Australia’s own imperial inheritance. It explores the saga of British explorer Captain James Cook, the meaning and practice of the conquest of Australia and the way by which rural Australia became tied to the Empire. It also discusses the contact and accommodation between the aborigines and the colonisers and the central issue of governance and the formation of the Australian State.Less
This introductory chapter explains the coverage of this book, which is about the Australian experience of empire. It aims to show how Australia’s empire was as much the project of the colony as of the metropole, as much the product of the Australian imagination as of the British Colonial Office. This book examines Australia’s own imperial inheritance. It explores the saga of British explorer Captain James Cook, the meaning and practice of the conquest of Australia and the way by which rural Australia became tied to the Empire. It also discusses the contact and accommodation between the aborigines and the colonisers and the central issue of governance and the formation of the Australian State.
Virginia DeJohn Anderson
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780195158601
- eISBN:
- 9780199788538
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195158601.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: early to 18th Century
This study presents colonial American history as the story of three-way interactions among Indians, English colonists, and livestock. By situating domestic animals at the heart of the colonizing ...
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This study presents colonial American history as the story of three-way interactions among Indians, English colonists, and livestock. By situating domestic animals at the heart of the colonizing process in 17th-century New England and the Chesapeake region, the book restores contingency to a narrative too often dominated by human actors alone. Livestock were a central factor in the cultural clash between colonists and Indians as well as a driving force in expansion west. By bringing livestock across the Atlantic, colonists assumed that they provided the means to realize America's potential, a goal that Indians, lacking domestic animals, had failed to accomplish. They also assumed that Native Americans who learned to keep livestock would advance along the path toward civility and Christianity. But colonists failed to anticipate that their animals would generate friction with Indians as native peoples constantly encountered free-ranging livestock often trespassing in their cornfields. Moreover, concerned about feeding their growing populations and committed to a style of animal husbandry that required far more space than they had expected, colonists eventually saw no alternative but to displace Indians and appropriate their land. This created tensions that reached boiling point with King Philip's War and Bacon's Rebellion, and it established a pattern that would repeat time and again over the next two centuries.Less
This study presents colonial American history as the story of three-way interactions among Indians, English colonists, and livestock. By situating domestic animals at the heart of the colonizing process in 17th-century New England and the Chesapeake region, the book restores contingency to a narrative too often dominated by human actors alone. Livestock were a central factor in the cultural clash between colonists and Indians as well as a driving force in expansion west. By bringing livestock across the Atlantic, colonists assumed that they provided the means to realize America's potential, a goal that Indians, lacking domestic animals, had failed to accomplish. They also assumed that Native Americans who learned to keep livestock would advance along the path toward civility and Christianity. But colonists failed to anticipate that their animals would generate friction with Indians as native peoples constantly encountered free-ranging livestock often trespassing in their cornfields. Moreover, concerned about feeding their growing populations and committed to a style of animal husbandry that required far more space than they had expected, colonists eventually saw no alternative but to displace Indians and appropriate their land. This created tensions that reached boiling point with King Philip's War and Bacon's Rebellion, and it established a pattern that would repeat time and again over the next two centuries.
Katy Hayward
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- January 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199594627
- eISBN:
- 9780191595738
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199594627.003.0009
- Subject:
- Political Science, European Union, Political Theory
Katy Hayward argues that the dominant theme of “European stories” recounted in Ireland is always nationalism — official, moderate and progressive, but nationalism nevertheless. The Irish No‐votes of ...
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Katy Hayward argues that the dominant theme of “European stories” recounted in Ireland is always nationalism — official, moderate and progressive, but nationalism nevertheless. The Irish No‐votes of the first Treaty of Nice referenda in 2001 and the Treaty of Lisbon in 2008 may thus be seen not merely as consequences of the “Celtic Tiger” boom but also as signifiers of the need for a new conceptualisation of the relationship between “nation” and “Europe”. In the past, Hayward argues, this has been heavily premised on romantic nationalist notions of Celtic heritage and Ireland's “ancient connections” with Europe, as the country has strived to shake off its troubled colonial history. There is now an urgent need for a fresh vision of Ireland's place in the future European Union, requiring a depth and a boldness that can only be realised by a new wave of intellectual engagement in this debate.Less
Katy Hayward argues that the dominant theme of “European stories” recounted in Ireland is always nationalism — official, moderate and progressive, but nationalism nevertheless. The Irish No‐votes of the first Treaty of Nice referenda in 2001 and the Treaty of Lisbon in 2008 may thus be seen not merely as consequences of the “Celtic Tiger” boom but also as signifiers of the need for a new conceptualisation of the relationship between “nation” and “Europe”. In the past, Hayward argues, this has been heavily premised on romantic nationalist notions of Celtic heritage and Ireland's “ancient connections” with Europe, as the country has strived to shake off its troubled colonial history. There is now an urgent need for a fresh vision of Ireland's place in the future European Union, requiring a depth and a boldness that can only be realised by a new wave of intellectual engagement in this debate.
Charles Forsdick
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198160144
- eISBN:
- 9780191673795
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198160144.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature
In assessing Robert Young's Colonial Desire, Stuart Hall attacks what he sees as its author's ‘inexplicably simplistic charge’ that post-colonial ...
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In assessing Robert Young's Colonial Desire, Stuart Hall attacks what he sees as its author's ‘inexplicably simplistic charge’ that post-colonial critics are inevitably complicit with Victorian racial theorists since both groups employ the terminology of hybridity. Although Hall's comments are a simplification of Young's study, what they demonstrate is a concern to avoid conflation of semantic fields whereby a term with colonial overtones is denied redefinition in a post-colonial context. This specific problem has dogged the understanding of exoticism. After a period of rejection of the term ‘exotisme’, the past twenty-five years have witnessed a resurgence of its use described above in the fields of anthropology, literary criticism, sociology, architecture, and colonial history. This chapter discusses new perspectives on exoticism, exoticism as an Aesthetics of Diversity, Victor Segalen's views on the exoticist tradition, and threats and responses to twentieth-century exoticism.Less
In assessing Robert Young's Colonial Desire, Stuart Hall attacks what he sees as its author's ‘inexplicably simplistic charge’ that post-colonial critics are inevitably complicit with Victorian racial theorists since both groups employ the terminology of hybridity. Although Hall's comments are a simplification of Young's study, what they demonstrate is a concern to avoid conflation of semantic fields whereby a term with colonial overtones is denied redefinition in a post-colonial context. This specific problem has dogged the understanding of exoticism. After a period of rejection of the term ‘exotisme’, the past twenty-five years have witnessed a resurgence of its use described above in the fields of anthropology, literary criticism, sociology, architecture, and colonial history. This chapter discusses new perspectives on exoticism, exoticism as an Aesthetics of Diversity, Victor Segalen's views on the exoticist tradition, and threats and responses to twentieth-century exoticism.
John A. Grigg
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195372373
- eISBN:
- 9780199870868
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195372373.003.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity
The first chapter introduces David Brainerd as one of the most ubiquitous figures in American colonial history. The Introduction then goes on to discuss existing studies of David Brainerd and explain ...
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The first chapter introduces David Brainerd as one of the most ubiquitous figures in American colonial history. The Introduction then goes on to discuss existing studies of David Brainerd and explain the central theme of this book. Finally the Introduction outlines the contents of the chapters that follow.Less
The first chapter introduces David Brainerd as one of the most ubiquitous figures in American colonial history. The Introduction then goes on to discuss existing studies of David Brainerd and explain the central theme of this book. Finally the Introduction outlines the contents of the chapters that follow.
Lackland H. Bloom
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195377118
- eISBN:
- 9780199869510
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195377118.003.0003
- Subject:
- Law, Constitutional and Administrative Law
This chapter considers the various pre-constitutional sources that the Court relies on to discover the original understanding as well as the uses that it has made of material relating to the drafting ...
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This chapter considers the various pre-constitutional sources that the Court relies on to discover the original understanding as well as the uses that it has made of material relating to the drafting and ratification process. First, it discusses the Court's use of English and common law history, the influence of William Blackstone, colonial history, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Virginia experience with freedom of religion. It then considers the Court's use of several different historical sources including statements, debates, and changes to the text during the drafting process, rejected provisions, understanding during the ratification process, the absence of discussion and the Federalist Papers.Less
This chapter considers the various pre-constitutional sources that the Court relies on to discover the original understanding as well as the uses that it has made of material relating to the drafting and ratification process. First, it discusses the Court's use of English and common law history, the influence of William Blackstone, colonial history, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Virginia experience with freedom of religion. It then considers the Court's use of several different historical sources including statements, debates, and changes to the text during the drafting process, rejected provisions, understanding during the ratification process, the absence of discussion and the Federalist Papers.
Will Higbee
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780748640041
- eISBN:
- 9780748693917
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748640041.003.0003
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
The question of memorializing France's colonial past has been a prominent and contested issue in French politics and the media in the 2000s. This chapter considers how Maghrebi-French filmmakers have ...
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The question of memorializing France's colonial past has been a prominent and contested issue in French politics and the media in the 2000s. This chapter considers how Maghrebi-French filmmakers have chosen to represent the Franco-Maghrebi colonial past and in particular the Algerian War and the history of North African immigration to France. Through case studies of four key films – Inch'allah dimanche, Cartouches Gauloises, Indigènes and Hors-la-loi – the chapter argues for the emergence of a postcolonial ‘counter-heritage’ cinema to challenge the Eurocentric representations of French colonial history offered by the middlebrow heritage film in French cinema of the 1990s and 2000s.Less
The question of memorializing France's colonial past has been a prominent and contested issue in French politics and the media in the 2000s. This chapter considers how Maghrebi-French filmmakers have chosen to represent the Franco-Maghrebi colonial past and in particular the Algerian War and the history of North African immigration to France. Through case studies of four key films – Inch'allah dimanche, Cartouches Gauloises, Indigènes and Hors-la-loi – the chapter argues for the emergence of a postcolonial ‘counter-heritage’ cinema to challenge the Eurocentric representations of French colonial history offered by the middlebrow heritage film in French cinema of the 1990s and 2000s.
E. Taylor Atkins
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520266735
- eISBN:
- 9780520947689
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520266735.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
This chapter provides a narrative overview of the intense historical engagement between Japan and Korea, culminating in the imposition of colonial rule. It reviews the most significant moments of ...
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This chapter provides a narrative overview of the intense historical engagement between Japan and Korea, culminating in the imposition of colonial rule. It reviews the most significant moments of Korea's colonial history and the administrative and discursive adjustments Japan's Government-General of Chōsen made over the course of its forty-year rule. Because subsequent chapters are organized thematically rather than chronologically, this recounting provides a necessary sense of time and place in which to contextualize the analysis that follows. Finally, the historical narrative is revisited with insights gleaned from the research in later chapters, with a particular aim to reconsider the conventional depiction of Japanese indifference and contempt for Korean culture.Less
This chapter provides a narrative overview of the intense historical engagement between Japan and Korea, culminating in the imposition of colonial rule. It reviews the most significant moments of Korea's colonial history and the administrative and discursive adjustments Japan's Government-General of Chōsen made over the course of its forty-year rule. Because subsequent chapters are organized thematically rather than chronologically, this recounting provides a necessary sense of time and place in which to contextualize the analysis that follows. Finally, the historical narrative is revisited with insights gleaned from the research in later chapters, with a particular aim to reconsider the conventional depiction of Japanese indifference and contempt for Korean culture.
Dace Dzenovska
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781501716836
- eISBN:
- 9781501716867
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501716836.003.0002
- Subject:
- Anthropology, European Cultural Anthropology
Chapter 1 outlines the moral landscape surrounding Europe’s colonial history. On the basis of analysis of encounters between Latvians who take pride in appropriating colonial expeditions of a 17th ...
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Chapter 1 outlines the moral landscape surrounding Europe’s colonial history. On the basis of analysis of encounters between Latvians who take pride in appropriating colonial expeditions of a 17th century Duke in Latvian national history and their puzzled Western observers, the chapter shows that this moral landscape is characterized by an imperative to remember Europe’s colonial history as a violent foundational moment that places ethical and political demands upon the present. At the same time, this moral landscape is fraught with ambiguities and tensions. If mainstream liberals recognize European colonialism as shameful, but prefer to publicly talk about the values of democracy, human rights, and freedom as European contribution to humanity, left-leaning postcolonial activists and scholars demand explicit recognition of colonialism’s continued legacy—for example, racism—in European politics and institutions of governance. Latvians manoeuvre this moral landscape in ways that disturb both. Less
Chapter 1 outlines the moral landscape surrounding Europe’s colonial history. On the basis of analysis of encounters between Latvians who take pride in appropriating colonial expeditions of a 17th century Duke in Latvian national history and their puzzled Western observers, the chapter shows that this moral landscape is characterized by an imperative to remember Europe’s colonial history as a violent foundational moment that places ethical and political demands upon the present. At the same time, this moral landscape is fraught with ambiguities and tensions. If mainstream liberals recognize European colonialism as shameful, but prefer to publicly talk about the values of democracy, human rights, and freedom as European contribution to humanity, left-leaning postcolonial activists and scholars demand explicit recognition of colonialism’s continued legacy—for example, racism—in European politics and institutions of governance. Latvians manoeuvre this moral landscape in ways that disturb both.
S. R. ASHTON
- Published in print:
- 1999
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198205647
- eISBN:
- 9780191676727
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198205647.003.0019
- Subject:
- History, World Modern History, British and Irish Modern History
Ceylon has several claims to occupy a special place in British colonial history. Ceylon's place in colonial history is not confined to its status as Britain's model colony. On the contrary, in ...
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Ceylon has several claims to occupy a special place in British colonial history. Ceylon's place in colonial history is not confined to its status as Britain's model colony. On the contrary, in Ceylon's case the triumph of moderate nationalism coincided with a resurgence of religion as a significant force in the political process. Lord Donoughmore was appointed to examine the Ceylon constitution in 1927. With a view to the eradication of communalism, the Donoughmore Commission made its most startling and controversial recommendation. Equally controversial during the period of the Donoughmore constitution, and indeed right up to independence and beyond, was the position of the Indian Tamil community in Ceylon. Unlike their counterparts in India and Burma, the political leadership in Ceylon co-operated with Britain in the war and, ultimately, Ceylon's wartime role as a major source of raw materials and as a strategic base worked to the advantage of the island's nationalists. Ceylon was independent but the real test of nationhood lay ahead.Less
Ceylon has several claims to occupy a special place in British colonial history. Ceylon's place in colonial history is not confined to its status as Britain's model colony. On the contrary, in Ceylon's case the triumph of moderate nationalism coincided with a resurgence of religion as a significant force in the political process. Lord Donoughmore was appointed to examine the Ceylon constitution in 1927. With a view to the eradication of communalism, the Donoughmore Commission made its most startling and controversial recommendation. Equally controversial during the period of the Donoughmore constitution, and indeed right up to independence and beyond, was the position of the Indian Tamil community in Ceylon. Unlike their counterparts in India and Burma, the political leadership in Ceylon co-operated with Britain in the war and, ultimately, Ceylon's wartime role as a major source of raw materials and as a strategic base worked to the advantage of the island's nationalists. Ceylon was independent but the real test of nationhood lay ahead.
Kam Louie (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789888028412
- eISBN:
- 9789882206960
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888028412.003.0002
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
This chapter provides an overview of the decade since the 1997 retrocession by framing it within the wider scope of Hong Kong's history and within comparative colonial history. After briefly ...
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This chapter provides an overview of the decade since the 1997 retrocession by framing it within the wider scope of Hong Kong's history and within comparative colonial history. After briefly reviewing some of the changes and continuities in the period between 1997 and 2007, it considers three main issues: the problems of periodization and definitions inherent in Hong Kong's unique decolonization process, the difficulties involved in commemorating Hong Kong's first postcolonial decade, and some of the region's colonial legacies and current political realities. The overwhelming majority of tourists are no longer Westerners but mainland Chinese. Whereas Westerners used to travel to Hong Kong to catch a glimpse of “Red China” across the border, they also came to see traditional China, preserved in the New Territories and seemingly unchanged by the Communist revolution. Now, newspapers and magazines overseas frequently carry articles about Hong Kong's heritage and the dynamic, hybrid flair reflected in its cinema, cuisine, and architecture.Less
This chapter provides an overview of the decade since the 1997 retrocession by framing it within the wider scope of Hong Kong's history and within comparative colonial history. After briefly reviewing some of the changes and continuities in the period between 1997 and 2007, it considers three main issues: the problems of periodization and definitions inherent in Hong Kong's unique decolonization process, the difficulties involved in commemorating Hong Kong's first postcolonial decade, and some of the region's colonial legacies and current political realities. The overwhelming majority of tourists are no longer Westerners but mainland Chinese. Whereas Westerners used to travel to Hong Kong to catch a glimpse of “Red China” across the border, they also came to see traditional China, preserved in the New Territories and seemingly unchanged by the Communist revolution. Now, newspapers and magazines overseas frequently carry articles about Hong Kong's heritage and the dynamic, hybrid flair reflected in its cinema, cuisine, and architecture.
Mark Thurner
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813035383
- eISBN:
- 9780813038940
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813035383.003.0003
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
This chapter is a meditation on the brilliant art and theory behind the early-eighteenth-century histories of Spain and Peru written by the Creole polymath Pedro de Peralta Barnuevo (1664–1743). This ...
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This chapter is a meditation on the brilliant art and theory behind the early-eighteenth-century histories of Spain and Peru written by the Creole polymath Pedro de Peralta Barnuevo (1664–1743). This chapter suggests that colonial dynastic history was a “letter to the king” that was written not so much as a libellus but as if the ear of the distant king was within its acoustical range. Composed within imaginary royal earshot, dynastic histories would not only require the prescribed forms of a respectful appeal but also a bright-eyed, noble, and sweet poetics worthy of the educated king or prince whom it “imitated” in word. In short, history would acquire the noble aura of the sovereign subject to whom it was addressed. As if presence in words of the imaginary prince, history was, in the words of Pedro de Peralta Barnuevo, an “animated reason” that was “truer than life.” As animated reason, history could stand in a sovereign, critical and futural position vis-à-vis the people it tutored.Less
This chapter is a meditation on the brilliant art and theory behind the early-eighteenth-century histories of Spain and Peru written by the Creole polymath Pedro de Peralta Barnuevo (1664–1743). This chapter suggests that colonial dynastic history was a “letter to the king” that was written not so much as a libellus but as if the ear of the distant king was within its acoustical range. Composed within imaginary royal earshot, dynastic histories would not only require the prescribed forms of a respectful appeal but also a bright-eyed, noble, and sweet poetics worthy of the educated king or prince whom it “imitated” in word. In short, history would acquire the noble aura of the sovereign subject to whom it was addressed. As if presence in words of the imaginary prince, history was, in the words of Pedro de Peralta Barnuevo, an “animated reason” that was “truer than life.” As animated reason, history could stand in a sovereign, critical and futural position vis-à-vis the people it tutored.
Benjamin F. Soares
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748622856
- eISBN:
- 9780748670635
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748622856.003.0003
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, African Studies
This chapter discusses the history of Nioro du Sahel in Mali as a socio-political and religious space in the aftermath of the French colonial conquest, the development of colonial policies toward ...
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This chapter discusses the history of Nioro du Sahel in Mali as a socio-political and religious space in the aftermath of the French colonial conquest, the development of colonial policies toward Islam and Muslims (‘la politique musulmane’), and some of the major political economic changes associated with colonial rule. Changes in understandings of Islam and its practices in this setting can only be understood in relation to some of the complex social transformations that began under colonial rule and have continued in the postcolonial period.Less
This chapter discusses the history of Nioro du Sahel in Mali as a socio-political and religious space in the aftermath of the French colonial conquest, the development of colonial policies toward Islam and Muslims (‘la politique musulmane’), and some of the major political economic changes associated with colonial rule. Changes in understandings of Islam and its practices in this setting can only be understood in relation to some of the complex social transformations that began under colonial rule and have continued in the postcolonial period.
Deryck M. Schreuder and Stuart Ward
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199563739
- eISBN:
- 9780191701894
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199563739.003.0017
- Subject:
- History, World Modern History
This chapter sums up the key findings of this study on Australia’s Empire and its collapse. The findings reveal that Australia was not significantly affected by the imperial decline in the 1940s and ...
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This chapter sums up the key findings of this study on Australia’s Empire and its collapse. The findings reveal that Australia was not significantly affected by the imperial decline in the 1940s and the 1950s, and the eventual decolonization starting in the early 1960s. It argues that there are a number of compelling reasons why the British Empire, which had been so fundamental to the Australian outlook, could be eclipsed within a short period of time without so much as a public demonstration.Less
This chapter sums up the key findings of this study on Australia’s Empire and its collapse. The findings reveal that Australia was not significantly affected by the imperial decline in the 1940s and the 1950s, and the eventual decolonization starting in the early 1960s. It argues that there are a number of compelling reasons why the British Empire, which had been so fundamental to the Australian outlook, could be eclipsed within a short period of time without so much as a public demonstration.
Lisa C. Robertson
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781526123503
- eISBN:
- 9781526141972
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9781526123503.003.0012
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
This chapter evaluates the writing Harkness produced during her time living in the countries that are now India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Placing Harkness’s work in a nineteenth-century tradition of ...
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This chapter evaluates the writing Harkness produced during her time living in the countries that are now India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Placing Harkness’s work in a nineteenth-century tradition of British historiographical writing about India that begins with James Mill’s History of British India (1817), the chapter argues that her work during this period consciously eschews conventional historical methodology and offers an important counter-narrative to colonial history. It suggests that in her attention to the ways that social movements and political institutions shape people’s daily lives, which is set within a broad foundation of personal knowledge, Harkness’s writing engages more ardently with the conventions of cultural history than it does with those of travel writing.Less
This chapter evaluates the writing Harkness produced during her time living in the countries that are now India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Placing Harkness’s work in a nineteenth-century tradition of British historiographical writing about India that begins with James Mill’s History of British India (1817), the chapter argues that her work during this period consciously eschews conventional historical methodology and offers an important counter-narrative to colonial history. It suggests that in her attention to the ways that social movements and political institutions shape people’s daily lives, which is set within a broad foundation of personal knowledge, Harkness’s writing engages more ardently with the conventions of cultural history than it does with those of travel writing.
Joseph M. Hodge, Gerald Hödl, and Martina Kopf (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780719091803
- eISBN:
- 9781781706824
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719091803.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Imperialism and Colonialism
The book investigates the concepts and related practices of development in British, French and Portuguese colonial Africa during the last decades of colonial rule. During this period, development ...
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The book investigates the concepts and related practices of development in British, French and Portuguese colonial Africa during the last decades of colonial rule. During this period, development became the central concept underpinning the relationship between metropolitan Europe and colonial Africa. Combining historiographical accounts with analyses from other academic perspectives, the book investigates a range of contexts, from agriculture to mass media. With its focus on the conceptual side of development and its broad geographical scope, the book offers new and uncommon perspectives. An extensive introduction contextualizes the individual chapters and makes the book an up-to-date point of entry into the subject of (colonial) development, not only for a specialist readership, but also for students of history, development and post-colonial studies. Written by scholars from Africa, Europe and North America, the book is a uniquely international dialogue on this vital chapter of twentieth-century transnational history and on a central concept of the contemporary world.Less
The book investigates the concepts and related practices of development in British, French and Portuguese colonial Africa during the last decades of colonial rule. During this period, development became the central concept underpinning the relationship between metropolitan Europe and colonial Africa. Combining historiographical accounts with analyses from other academic perspectives, the book investigates a range of contexts, from agriculture to mass media. With its focus on the conceptual side of development and its broad geographical scope, the book offers new and uncommon perspectives. An extensive introduction contextualizes the individual chapters and makes the book an up-to-date point of entry into the subject of (colonial) development, not only for a specialist readership, but also for students of history, development and post-colonial studies. Written by scholars from Africa, Europe and North America, the book is a uniquely international dialogue on this vital chapter of twentieth-century transnational history and on a central concept of the contemporary world.
Alicia Turner
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824839376
- eISBN:
- 9780824869571
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824839376.003.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Buddhism
This book examines the ways in which Buddhist discourse shaped a sense of collective belonging distinct from nation by focusing on Burma's colonial history. More specifically, it considers how ...
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This book examines the ways in which Buddhist discourse shaped a sense of collective belonging distinct from nation by focusing on Burma's colonial history. More specifically, it considers how Burmese Buddhists in the decades surrounding the turn of the twentieth century contested colonial categories that impinged on their lives and ultimately renegotiated the terms of colonialism. The book looks at the local conflicts and confrontations in which Burmese Buddhists chose to engage as well as the ways in which they brought together divergent aspects of Buddhist discourse and colonial innovations to create new means of understanding themselves individually and collectively. Three formative discourses set in motion by the colonial encounter during the period 1890–1920 are explored: the concept of sāsana, collective belonging organized through moral community, and the category of religion. The book analyzes the worldview and inner workings of the discourse of sāsana as one alternative to the logics of nationalism and colonial modernity.Less
This book examines the ways in which Buddhist discourse shaped a sense of collective belonging distinct from nation by focusing on Burma's colonial history. More specifically, it considers how Burmese Buddhists in the decades surrounding the turn of the twentieth century contested colonial categories that impinged on their lives and ultimately renegotiated the terms of colonialism. The book looks at the local conflicts and confrontations in which Burmese Buddhists chose to engage as well as the ways in which they brought together divergent aspects of Buddhist discourse and colonial innovations to create new means of understanding themselves individually and collectively. Three formative discourses set in motion by the colonial encounter during the period 1890–1920 are explored: the concept of sāsana, collective belonging organized through moral community, and the category of religion. The book analyzes the worldview and inner workings of the discourse of sāsana as one alternative to the logics of nationalism and colonial modernity.
Johannes Fabian
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520221222
- eISBN:
- 9780520923935
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520221222.003.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, African Cultural Anthropology
What travel meant when scientific explorers began producing knowledge about vast regions such as central Africa merits close attention, especially in view of the imminent danger of disembodied ...
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What travel meant when scientific explorers began producing knowledge about vast regions such as central Africa merits close attention, especially in view of the imminent danger of disembodied postcolonial theorizing. This chapter gives an account of the course this project has taken. It took years before the author realized to place his work in the context of colonial history. Knowledge of the colonial past was essential to understand, among other things, a problem that intrigued him: How did it come about that Swahili, a language which had its origins on the east coast of Africa, would emerge, in different variants, as both a tool of Belgian colonization and a “weapon of resistance”, as the common medium through which displaced labor recruits and other immigrants created spaces of freedom for the vital and complex popular culture first encountered in the sixties?Less
What travel meant when scientific explorers began producing knowledge about vast regions such as central Africa merits close attention, especially in view of the imminent danger of disembodied postcolonial theorizing. This chapter gives an account of the course this project has taken. It took years before the author realized to place his work in the context of colonial history. Knowledge of the colonial past was essential to understand, among other things, a problem that intrigued him: How did it come about that Swahili, a language which had its origins on the east coast of Africa, would emerge, in different variants, as both a tool of Belgian colonization and a “weapon of resistance”, as the common medium through which displaced labor recruits and other immigrants created spaces of freedom for the vital and complex popular culture first encountered in the sixties?
