Archaeology of Colonisation
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Archaeology of Colonisation

From Aesthetics to Biopolitics

  1. 203 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Archaeology of Colonisation

From Aesthetics to Biopolitics

About this book

This book rethinks the history of colonisation by focusing on the formation of the European aesthetic ideas of indigeneity and blackness in the Caribbean, and how these ideas were deployed as markers of biopolitical governance. Using Foucault's philosophical archaeology as method, this work argues that the European formation of indigeneity and blackness was based on aesthetically casting Aboriginal and African peoples in the Caribbean as monsters yet with a similar degree of Western civilisation and 'culture'. By focusing on the aesthetics of the first racial imageries that produced indigeneity and blackness this work takes a radical departure from the current Social Darwinian theorisations of race and racism. It reveals a new connection between the global origins of colonisation and local post-Enlightenment histories.

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Year
2019
Print ISBN
9781786609007
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9781786609014

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. List of Figures
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Disclaimer
  5. 1 Introduction
  6. Part 1: Origins: Colonial Aesthetics (The Caribbean)
  7. Part 2: Command (Queensland, Australia)
  8. References
  9. Index
  10. About the Author

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