Ann Laura Stoler & Frederick Cooper 
Tensions of Empire [EPUB ebook] 
Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World

Starting with the premise that Europe was made by its imperial projects as much as colonial encounters were shaped by events and conflicts in Europe, the contributors to
Tensions of Empire investigate metropolitan-colonial relationships from a new perspective. The fifteen essays demonstrate various ways in which ‘civilizing missions’ in both metropolis and colony provided new sites for clarifying a bourgeois order. Focusing on the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries, they show how new definitions of modernity and welfare were developed and how new discourses and practices of inclusion and exclusion were contested and worked out. The contributors argue that colonial studies can no longer be confined to the units of analysis on which it once relied; instead of being the study of ‘the colonized, ‘ it must account for the shifting political terrain on which the very categories of colonized and colonizer have been shaped and patterned at different times.

Tabla de materias

Preface

Acknowledgments


Between Metropole and Colony:

Rethinking a Research Agenda

Ann Laura Stoler and Frederick Cooper


Part I

Framings

1 Liberal Strategies of Exclusion

Uday S. Mehta

2 Imperialism and Motherhood

Anna Davin

3 Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence

of Colonial Discourse

Homi Bhabha


Part II

Making Boundaries

Contents

4 Images of Empire, Contests of Conscience:

Models of Colonial Domination in South Africa

John L. Comaroff

5 Sexual Affronts and Racial Frontiers:

European Identities and the Cultural Politics

of Exclusion in Colonial Southeast Asia

Ann Laura Stoler

6 ‘The Conversion of Englishmen and the Conversion

of the World Inseparable’: Missionary Imperialism

and the Language of Class in Early Industrial Britain

Susan Thorne

7 Race, Gender, and Citizenship in the German

Colonial Empire

Lora Wildenthal


Part III

Colonial Projects

8 ‘Le bebe en brousse’: European Women, African Birth

Spacing, and Colonial Intervention in Breast Feeding

in the Belgian Congo

Nancy Rose Hunt

9 Tradition in the Service of Modernity: Architecture and

Urbanism in French Colonial Policy, 190G-1930

Gwendolyn Wright

10 Educating Conformity in French Colonial Algeria

Fanny Colonna


Part IV

Contesting the Categories of Rule

11 The Difference-Deferral of a Colonial Modernity:

Public Debates on Domesticity in British Bengal

Dipesh Chakrabarty

12 The Dialectics of Decolonization: Nationalism

and Labor Movements in Postwar French Africa

Frederick Cooper

13 Cars Out of Place: Vampires, Technology, and Labor

in East and Central Africa

Luise White


Notes on Contributors

Index

Sobre el autor

Frederick Cooper is Professor of African History at the University of Michigan. His latest book is Decolonization and African Society: The Labor Question in French and British Africa (1996). Ann Laura Stoler is Professor of Anthropology and History at the University of Michigan and author most recently of Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault’s History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things (1995).