Discipline and the Other Body (eBook, PDF)

Correction, Corporeality, Colonialism
Redaktion: Anupama Rao, Rao

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Produktbeschreibung

Discipline and the Other Body reveals the intimate relationship between violence and difference underlying modern governmental power and the human rights discourses that critique it. The comparative essays brought together in this collection show how, in using physical violence to discipline and control colonial subjects, governments repeatedly found themselves enmeshed in a fundamental paradox: Colonialism was about the management of difference-the "e;civilized"e; ruling the "e;uncivilized"e;-but colonial violence seemed to many the antithesis of civility, threatening to undermine the very distinction that validated its use. Violation of the bodies of colonial subjects regularly generated scandals, and eventually led to humanitarian initiatives, ultimately changing conceptions of "e;the human"e; and helping to constitute modern forms of human rights discourse. Colonial violence and discipline also played a crucial role in hardening modern categories of difference-race, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, and religion.The contributors, who include both historians and anthropologists, address instances of colonial violence from the early modern period to the twentieth century and from Asia to Africa to North America. They consider diverse topics, from the interactions of race, law, and violence in colonial Louisiana to British attempts to regulate sex and marriage in the Indian army in the early nineteenth century. They examine the political dilemmas raised by the extensive use of torture in colonial India and the ways that British colonizers flogged Nigerians based on beliefs that different ethnic and religious affiliations corresponded to different degrees of social evolution and levels of susceptibility to physical pain. An essay on how contemporary Sufi healers deploy bodily violence to maintain sexual and religious hierarchies in postcolonial northern Nigeria makes it clear that the state is not the only enforcer of disciplinary regimes based on ideas of difference.Contributors. Laura Bear, Yvette Christianse, Shannon Lee Dawdy, Dorothy Ko, Isaac Land, Susan O'Brien, Douglas M. Peers, Steven Pierce, Anupama Rao, Kerry Ward

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822387930
• Artikelnr.: 54814791

Autorenporträt

Steven Pierce is Lecturer in Colonial and Postcolonial History at the University of Manchester. He is the author of Farmers and the State in Colonial Kano: Land Tenure and the Legal Imagination. Anupama Rao is Assistant Professor of History at Barnard College. She is the editor of Gender and Caste: Contemporary Issues in Indian Feminism and a coeditor of Violence, Vulnerability, and Embodiment.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments vii
Discipline and the Other Body: Humanitarianism, Violence, and the Colonial
Exception / Anupama Tao and Steven Pierce 1
Defining and Defiling the Criminal Body at the Cape of Good Hope: Punishing
the Crime of Suicide under Dutch East India Company Rule, circa 1652–1795 /
Kerry Ward 36
The Burden of Louis Congo and the Evolution of Savagery in Colonial
Louisiana / Shannon Lee Dawdy 61
“Sinful Propensities”: Piracy, Sodomy, and Empire in the Rhetoric of Naval
Reform, 1770–1870 / Isaac Land 90
The Raj’s Other Great Game: Policing the Sexual Frontiers of the Indian
Army in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century / Douglas M. Peers 115
Problems of Violence, States of terror: Torture in Colonial India / Anupama
Rao 151
Punishment and the Political Body: Flogging and Colonialism in Northern
Nigeria / Steven Pierce 186
Footbinding and Anti-footbinding in China: The Subject of Pain in the
Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries / Dorothy Ko 215
An Economy of Suffering: Addressing the Violence of Discipline in Railway
Workers’ Petitions to the Agent of the East Indian Railway, 1930–47 / Laura
Bear 243
Spirit Discipline: Gender, Islam, and Hierarchies of Treatment in
Postcolonial Northern Nigeria / Susan O’Brien 273
Selections from Castaway / Yvette Christianse 303
Bibliography 317
Contributors 347
Index 349