Disciplinary Spaces

Spatial Control, Forced Assimilation and Narratives of Progress since the 19th Century
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-8376-3487-7
Verlag: Transcript Verlag

Buch, Englisch, Band 14, 300 Seiten, Kt, Format (B × H): 149 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 469 g

Reihe: Sozial- und Kulturgeographie

This volume looks at territories such as reservations, model villages and collective towns as the spatial materialization of forced assimilation and "progress". These disciplinary spaces were created in order to disempower and alter radically the behavior of people who were perceived as ill-suited "to fit" into hegemonic imaginations of "the nation" since the 19th century.

Comparing examples from the Americas, Australia, North and East Africa, Central Europe as well as West and Central Asia, the book not only considers the acts and legitimizing narrations of ruling actors, but highlights the agency of the subaltern who are often misrepresented as passive victims of violent assimilation strategies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fischer-Tahir, Andrea

Wagenhofer, Sophie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie

Über Autor(innen)

Fischer-Tahir, Andrea
Andrea Fischer-Tahir (Dr. phil.), geb. 1971, lehrt an der TU Dresden inklusive Bildung. Sie war lange in der regionalwissenschaftlichen Forschung tätig und publizierte v.a. zu Geschichte, Soziologie und Politik in Kurdistan. Ihre konzeptionellen Schwerpunkte sind Raum, Gender, Wissen, Widerstand und die Konstruktion von Erinnerung.

Andrea Fischer-Tahir (Dr. phil.), born in 1971, is working as a lecturer for inclusive education at TU Dresden. She has long-standing experience in area studies with a focus on history, sociology and politics in Kurdistan. Her conceptual work involves space production, gender, knowledge, resistance, as well as construction of memory.
Sophie Wagenhofer (PhD) is a historian specialized in entangled history with a focus on Europe and North Africa.