Disciplinary Spaces
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Disciplinary Spaces

Spatial Control, Forced Assimilation and Narratives of Progress since the 19th Century

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eBook - PDF

Disciplinary Spaces

Spatial Control, Forced Assimilation and Narratives of Progress since the 19th Century

About this book

This volume looks at territories such as reservations, model villages and collective towns as the spatial materialization of forced assimilation and "progress". These disciplinary spaces were created in order to disempower and alter radically the behavior of people who were perceived as ill-suited "to fit" into hegemonic imaginations of "the nation" since the 19th century.

Comparing examples from the Americas, Australia, North and East Africa, Central Europe as well as West and Central Asia, the book not only considers the acts and legitimizing narrations of ruling actors, but highlights the agency of the subaltern who are often misrepresented as passive victims of violent assimilation strategies.

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Yes, you can access Disciplinary Spaces by Andrea Fischer-Tahir, Sophie Wagenhofer, Andrea Fischer-Tahir,Sophie Wagenhofer in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Scienze sociali & Storia del XIX secolo. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Table of Content
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Introduction: Spatial Control, Disciplinary Power and Assimilation: the Inevitable Side-Effects of ›Progress‹ and Capitalist ›Modernity‹
  5. Chapter One: Into the West, into the East: Spatial Control and Property Relations
  6. Chapter Two: Settlement Schemes and Development Dreams
  7. Chapter Three: Spatial Control, Knowledge, and the ›Other‹
  8. Chapter Four: Disciplinary Spaces as Counterinsurgency – Encountered and Countering
  9. List of Contributors