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Colonialism, Slavery and Empire
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Sociology Mind Map on Colonialism, Slavery and Empire, created by annabel_homer on 24/04/2013.
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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
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