Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power

Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule, With a New Preface
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-520-26246-1
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 508 g

This landmark book tracks matters of intimacy to investigate matters of state in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Indonesia, particularly the critical role played by sexual arrangements and affective attachments in creating colonial categories and distinguishing the ruler from the ruled. Arguing that social classification is not a benign cultural act but a potent political one, Ann Laura Stoler’s essays focus on parents and parenting, nursing mothers, servants, orphanages, and abandoned children to reveal why they were understood as so essential to imperial governance and why they have been so consistently absent from its historiography. In a new preface, Stoler takes up a broad range of problematics raised in the first edition, including the analytics of comparison, the treatment of the intimate, and more.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stoler, Ann Laura

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface to the 2010 Edition: Zones of the Intimate in Imperial Formations
Acknowledgments
Note on Illustrations

1. GENEALOGIES OF THE INTIMATE: MOVEMENTS IN COLONIAL STUDIES

2. RETHINKING COLONIAL CATEGORIES: EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES AND THE BOUNDARIES OF THE RULE

3. CARNAL KNOWLEDGE AND IMPERIAL POWER: GENDER AND MORALITY IN THE MAKING OF RACE

4. SEXUAL AFFRONTS AND RACIAL FRONTIERS: CULTURAL COMPETENCE AND THE DANGERS OF METISSAGE

5. A SENTIMENTAL EDUCATION: CHILDREN ON THE IMPERIAL DIVIDE

6. A COLONIAL READING OF FOUCAULT: BOURGEOIS BODIES AND RACIAL SELVES

7. MEMORY-WORK IN JAVA: A CAUTIONARY TALE
EPILOGUE. CAVEATS ON COMFORT ZONES AND COMPARATIVE FRAMES

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ann Laura Stoler is Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies at The New School of Social Research. She is the author of Race and the Education of Desire and coeditor of Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World (UC Press).