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 sta...
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Introduction: Mimetic Governmentality, Colonialism, and the State
Patrice Ladwig and Ricardo Roque
Chapter 1. Dances with Heads: Parasitic Mimesis and ...
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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 a...
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