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Archaeology of Colonisation
From Aesthetics to Biopolitics
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2019
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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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1/2019
Copyright Year
2019
ISBN-Print
978-1-78660-900-7
ISBN-Online
978-1-78660-901-4
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
187
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Monograph
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1 Introduction No access Pages 1 - 18
2 Aesthetics of Ugliness No access
3 Monstrous Anthropology No access
4 Blackness No access
5 Biopolitics in Colonisation No access
6 The Blanket Approach No access
7 State of Exception in Australia No access
8 Conclusion No access
References No access Pages 173 - 178
Index No access Pages 179 - 186
About the Author No access Pages 187 - 187
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