Carlos Rivera-Santana

Archaeology of Colonisation (eBook, PDF)

From Aesthetics to Biopolitics

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798881863074
• Artikelnr.: 74832577

Autorenporträt

Carlos Rivera Santana is assistant professor of Hispanic Studies at the College of William & Mary, Williamsburg. He was previously a research associate at CENTRO Hunter College, CUNY.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Archaeology of Colonisation
Part 1: Origins: Colonial Aesthetics (The Caribbean)
2. Aesthetics of Ugliness
3. Monstrous Anthropology
4. Blackness
Part 2: Command (Queensland, Australia)
5. Biopolitics in Colonisation: The Inequality of Human Races
6. The Blanket Approach
7. State of Exception in Australia
8. Conclusion: Colonisation