Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Colonialism,
Slavery and
Empire
- Studied as defunct historic episodes
- predicates of
modern liberal
world order
- 'series of
successive reigmes
of un-freedom"
(Dirks:1990:30)
- Domination through
slave then wage labour,
intellectual appropriation
and a power over
knowledge forms.
- C.W.O inherently
unequal?
- Introduction
- Economic
- Shift in Mode of subsistence
- Capitalism x
Europe!
- "Where capitalism
accumulated, it
was as a process
and consequence
of colonialism"
(Mignolo,
2007:453)
- New World
Encounters: Redwood
and rubber
- "the universal rights [...]
promised by he American
and French revolutions
tacitly excluded among
others, slaves, the poor
and women (2009: 316 - C)
- Social
- 'For liberal reformers the modern
empire had to be decisivley severed from
older, more extractive and oppressive
forms of conquest' (M, 2010: 11)
- Conflicting pasts had to be rationalised: Describe human prgress.
- 'agent of the civilising
process' (M 2007:11)
- incapable of self governing
- Legitimate tool
of moral and
material prgress
- Imperial alibi to justify domination
- Political
- Racialised
power plays
and conception
of the military
mission as a
moralising
project
- Interventionist
measures:
perversion of the
liberal ethos
- sustained by a fear of 'un-freedom' war and violence
unanimously depicted as global exportations of liberal
democracy to 'ungovernable' nations.
- Monopolisation over
knowledge forms.
- HAITI
- Escobar: global
coloniality,
heigtened
marginalisation,
spression of
knowledge and
cultures of
subaltern groups
(2009, Vas)
- CONCLUSON
- Constitutive effects of
slavery, colonialism,
empire on liberal world
- Freedom is constituted by the
un-freedom of others' Colley,
cited in Bhambra, 2007: 19
- Knowledge production: Social
Sciences, History, Economics
- REPRODUCTION of
colonial logi: resource and
intellectual appropriation
- GOVE
- Benjamin:
economy of
oblivion that hides
the colonial wound
- Recover past
from colonial
vacuum: multiple
histories
- Violence;
displacement
of persons
- Slavery
- Liberalism that
could overlook this