States of Imitation

Mimetic Governmentality and Colonial Rule
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-78920-738-5
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 11, 150 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 332 g

Reihe: Studies in Social Analysis

Late Western colonialism often relied on the practice of imitating indigenous forms of rule in order to maintain power; conversely, indigenous polities could imitate Western sociopolitical forms to their own benefit. Drawing on historical ethnographic studies of colonialism in Asia and Africa, States of Imitation examines how the colonial state attempted to administer, control, and integrate its indigenous subjects through mimetic governmentality, as well the ways indigenous states adopted these imitative practices to establish reciprocal ties with, or to resist the presence of, the colonial state.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ladwig, Patrice

Roque, Ricardo

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Mimetic Governmentality, Colonialism, and the State

Patrice Ladwig and Ricardo Roque

Chapter 1. Dances with Heads: Parasitic Mimesis and the Government of Savagery in Colonial East Timor

Ricardo Roque

Chapter 2. Variants of Frontier Mimesis: Colonial Encounter and Intercultural Interaction in the Lao Vietnamese Uplands

Oliver Tappe

Chapter 3. The Hut-Hospital as Project and as Practice: Mimeses, Alterities, and Colonial Hierarchies

Cristiana Bastos

Chapter 4. Imitations of Buddhist Statecraft: The Patronage of Lao Buddhism and the Reconstruction of Relic Shrines and Temples in Colonial French Indochina

Patrice Ladwig

Chapter 5. Colonial Mimesis and Animal Breeding: Karakul Sheep in Southwestern Angola

Tiago Saraiva

Chapter 6. The Colonial State and Carnival: The Complexity and Ambiguity of Carnival in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa

Christoph Kohl

Chapter 7. Mimetic Primitivism: Notes on the Conceptual History of Mimesis

Patrice Ladwig

Postscript: The Risks and Failures of Imitation

Patrice Ladwig and Ricardo Roque

Über Autor(innen)

Ladwig, Patrice
Patrice Ladwig is a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, and a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge.

Roque, Ricardo
Ricardo Roque is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon (Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa), and an Honorary Associate in the Department of History at the University of Sydney.

Patrice Ladwig is a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, and a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge.