Political Power and Social Theory: Rethinking the Colonial State

Søren Ivarsson; Søren Rud

Political Power and Social Theory: Rethinking the Colonial State

Søren Ivarsson (Editor), Søren Rud (Editor)

SAXO-Institute - Archaeology, Ethnology, Greek & Latin, History

Abstract

Studies of colonialism and empire have increasingly drawn attention to the problem of conceptualizing the political logic of colonial projects and the circumstances of state formation in colonial contexts. Concepts such as ‘colonial governmentality’ (Prakash, Thomas, Scott, Legg), ‘state effect’ and ‘enframing’ (Mitchell), ‘rule of difference’ (Chatterjee), ‘ethnographic state’ (Dirks), ‘the colonial state as a social field’ (Steinmetz), ‘affective state’ (Stoler) have contributed immensely to the analytical framing of the peculiarities of colonial rule. Still, the nature and workings of the colonial state remains undertheorized and underanalysed. With this workshop we wish to bring together a small group of scholars working on less studied colonial states. Hereby we wish to open up for a fruitful exchange on what such cases can tell us about the generic nature of the colonial state and hereby stimulate a retheorizing of the colonial state.

Original language	English

Publisher	Emerald Group Publishing
Volume	33
Number of pages	240
ISBN (Print)	978-1-78714-655-6
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-78714-654-9
Publication status	Published - 2017
Event	Reanalyzing the Colonial State: Theoretical and Empirical Perspective - Saxo Instituttet, Københavns Universitet, København, Denmark Duration: 8 Aug 2016 → 8 Aug 2016

Workshop

Workshop	Reanalyzing the Colonial State: Theoretical and Empirical Perspective
Location	Saxo Instituttet, Københavns Universitet
Country/Territory	Denmark
City	København
Period	08/08/2016 → 08/08/2016

Keywords

Faculty of Humanities
Colonial state

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