Deprovincializing Racial Capitalism: John Crawfurd and Settler Colonialism in India

American Political Science Review ◽

10.1017/s0003055421000939 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-17

Author(s):

ONUR ULAS INCE

Keyword(s):

Recent Literature ◽

Settler Colonialism ◽

Blind Spot ◽

Analytic Framework ◽

Capital Theory ◽

Racial Categories ◽

Racial Capitalism ◽

History Of ◽

Organization Of Production

Recent literature on racial capitalism has overwhelmingly focused on the Atlantic settler-slave formation, sidelining the history of European imperialism in Asia. This article addresses this blind spot by recovering the aborted project of British settler colonialism in India through the writings of its most prominent advocate, John Crawfurd. It is argued that Crawfurd’s vision of a liberal empire in India rejected slavery and indigenous dispossession yet remained deeply racialized in its conception of capital, labor, and value. Crawfurd elaborated a “capital theory of race,” which derived racial categories from a civilizational spectrum keyed to the capitalist organization of production. His proposals accordingly revamped the conventional terms of colonization by representing India as overstocked with labor but vacant of capital and skill that only European settlers could provide. The article concludes with the broader implications of a transimperial analytic framework for writing connected histories of racial capitalism and settler colonialism.

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Migration and Modernities

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474440349.001.0001 ◽

2019 ◽

Keyword(s):

Native Americans ◽

Literary History ◽

Historical Study ◽

Racial Categories ◽

Geographic Boundaries ◽

The Us ◽

Technological Developments ◽

History Of ◽

The Aesthetic ◽

Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries

Migration and Modernities recovers a comparative literary history of migration by bringing together scholars from the US and Europe to explore the connections between migrant experiences and the uneven emergence of modernity. The collection initiates transnational, transcultural and interdisciplinary conversations about migration in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, demonstrating how mobility unsettles the geographic boundaries, temporal periodization, and racial categories we often use to organize literary and historical study. Migrants are by definition liminal, and many have existed historically in the spaces between nations, regions or ethnicities. In exploring these spaces, Migration and Modernities also investigates the origins of current debates about belonging, rights, and citizenship. Its chapters traverse the globe, revealing the experiences — real or imagined — of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century migrants, from dispossessed Native Americans to soldiers in South America, Turkish refugees to Scottish settlers. They explore the aesthetic and rhetorical frameworks used to represent migrant experiences during a time when imperial expansion and technological developments made the fortunes of some migrants and made exiles out of others. These frameworks continue to influence the narratives we tell ourselves about migration today and were crucial in producing a distinctively modern subjectivity in which mobility and rootlessness have become normative.

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Twenty-Five Years after Sa-I-Gu: Multiracial Politics in Times of Crisis

Kalfou A Journal of Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies ◽

10.15367/kf.v4i2.166 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Jeff Chang ◽

Daniel Martinez HoSang ◽

Soya Jung ◽

Chandan Reddy ◽

Alex Tom

Keyword(s):

Los Angeles ◽

Mass Culture ◽

Police Officers ◽

Critical Consciousness ◽

Settler Colonialism ◽

The State ◽

Racial Capitalism

We chose to frame this conversation in terms of crisis: not only the state of permanent crisis created by racial capitalism and settler colonialism but also specific flashpoints like Sa-I-Gu [the Korean term for the April 1992 uprising in Los Angeles after the acquittal of the police officers involved in the Rodney King beating]. We want to look at the conditions surrounding these flashpoints and the responses to them that then shaped race consciousness and politics subsequently. Today we have no shortage of crisis, no shortage of flashpoints. And yet there is hope. Perhaps more than at any other time in my lifetime, there are opportunities to shift mass culture, at the very least to popularize and normalize a slightly more critical consciousness. So now I want to turn to my friends here to talk about crisis and multiracial politics. We’ll start with Sa-I-Gu and work forward to this moment and also to future possibilities.

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The physiopathology of spontaneous hemorrhagic stroke: a systematic review

Reviews in the Neurosciences ◽

10.1515/revneuro-2020-0131 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 0 (0) ◽

Author(s):

Alcivan Batista de Morais Filho ◽

Thiago Luis de Holanda Rego ◽

Letícia de Lima Mendonça ◽

Sulyanne Saraiva de Almeida ◽

Mariana Lima da Nóbrega ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Risk Factors ◽

Systematic Review ◽

Ischemic Stroke ◽

Subarachnoid Hemorrhage ◽

Natural History ◽

Hemorrhagic Stroke ◽

Recent Literature ◽

Clinical Manifestations ◽

The Road ◽

History Of

Abstract Hemorrhagic stroke (HS) is a major cause of death and disability worldwide, despite being less common, it presents more aggressively and leads to more severe sequelae than ischemic stroke. There are two types of HS: Intracerebral Hemorrhage (ICH) and Subarachnoid Hemorrhage (SAH), differing not only in the site of bleeding, but also in the mechanisms responsible for acute and subacute symptoms. This is a systematic review of databases in search of works of the last five years relating to the comprehension of both kinds of HS. Sixty two articles composed the direct findings of the recent literature and were further characterized to construct the pathophysiology in the order of events. The road to the understanding of the spontaneous HS pathophysiology is far from complete. Our findings show specific and individual results relating to the natural history of the disease of ICH and SAH, presenting common and different risk factors, distinct and similar clinical manifestations at onset or later days to weeks, and possible complications for both.

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Settler Colonial Disease and Dis-Ease in August: Osage County

Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik ◽

10.1515/zaa-2020-0007 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 68 (1) ◽

pp. 67-78

Author(s):

M. Elise Marubbio

Keyword(s):

Native Americans ◽

Physical Health ◽

Settler Colonialism ◽

Film Adaptation ◽

American People ◽

History Of ◽

History Of Place ◽

Mental And Physical Health ◽

American Racism ◽

Osage County

AbstractTracy Letts’s screenplay, August: Osage County (2013), and John Wells’s film adaptation (2013) offer a compelling critique of American racism towards Native Americans which demands that viewers consider their own inculcation into ongoing settler-nation colonialism. The film layers the history of place (Oklahoma) with the Cheyenne character Johnna, whose Indigenous heritage is negotiated throughout by liberal academics, conservative rural matriarchs, and Johnna herself. The role is small but essential to the film’s allegorical analysis of settler-colonialism and racism. The Weston family’s secrets, addictions, and dysfunction starkly contrast with Johnna’s health and stability. Through Johnna, the film questions the toll colonialism takes on the mental and physical health of the American people. This paper analyzes the metanarrative association of the Weston family’s dysfunction and racism with ongoing colonialism that results in disease of the settler-colonial space as it emerges in the screenplay and film.

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Origins: Colonies and Statistics

Canadian Journal of Political Science ◽

10.1017/s000842392000116x ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 53 (4) ◽

pp. 735-754

Author(s):

Barbara Arneil

Keyword(s):

Indigenous Peoples ◽

Mentally Ill ◽

Political Thought ◽

English Language ◽

Settler Colonialism ◽

State Policies ◽

Mass Survey ◽

Waste Land ◽

Key Concepts ◽

History Of

AbstractIn this address, I examine the lexical, geographic, temporal and philosophical origins of two key concepts in modern political thought: colonies and statistics. Beginning with the Latin word colonia, I argue that the modern ideology of settler colonialism is anchored in the claim of “improvement” of both people and land via agrarian labour in John Locke's labour theory of property in seventeenth-century America, through which he sought to provide an ideological justification for both the assimilation and dispossession of Indigenous peoples. This same ideology of colonialism was turned inward a century later by Sir John Sinclair to justify domestic colonies on “waste” land in Scotland—specifically Caithness (the county within which my own grandparents were tenant farmers). Domestic colonialism understood as “improvement” of people (the “idle” poor and mentally ill and disabled) through engagement in agrarian labour on waste land inside explicitly named colonies within the borders of one's own country was first championed not only by Sinclair but also his famous correspondent, Jeremy Bentham, in England. Sinclair simultaneously coined the word statistics and was the first to use it in the English language. He defined it as the scientific gathering of mass survey data to shape state policies. Bentham embraced statistics as well. In both cases, statistics were developed and deployed to support their domestic colony schemes by creating a benchmark and roadmap for the improvement of people and land as well as a tool to measure the colony's capacity to achieve both over time. I conclude that settler colonialism along with the intertwined origins of domestic colonies and statistics have important implications for the study of political science in Canada, the history of colonialism as distinct from imperialism in modern political thought and the role played by intersecting colonialisms in the Canadian polity.

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What Does It Mean to Be a(n Italian) Borderland? Recent Literature on Italy's ‘New Provinces’ of South Tyrol and the Julian March

Contemporary European History ◽

10.1017/s0960777320000545 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-11

Author(s):

Eden McLean

Keyword(s):

Role Model ◽

Recent Literature ◽

Minority Populations ◽

World War ◽

Consociational Democracy ◽

South Tyrol ◽

History Of ◽

International Role ◽

Border Controls ◽

Friuli Venezia Giulia

In the era of the Schengen Area (at least in the days before Covid-19), travel from Munich to Bozen/Bolzano or Ljubljana to Trst/Trieste is a decidedly unremarkable, albeit beautiful, adventure. Just as meaningful as the lack of border controls, travellers find all public signage in both Italian and German (and sometimes Ladin, too) upon arrival in Bozen/Bolzano. Signs in the streets of Trst/Trieste less reliably have Slovene alongside the Italian, but assistance with translation can be found with little difficulty. The Italian autonomous regions ‘with special statutes’ in which these cities reside – Trentino-Alto Adige (South Tyrol) and Friuli Venezia Giulia (the Julian March) – are multilingual territories that, at least on an official level, embrace a multiethnic heritage and reality. In fact, Trentino-Alto Adige's consociational democracy is widely regarded among political scientists as an international role model for how states can successfully protect and give voice to minority populations. Those unfamiliar with the more recent history of these regions might be surprised to learn of these avowedly multiethnic political and cultural structures. For much of the first half of the twentieth century, the regions’ two states – Austria-Hungary until 1919 and thereafter Italy – employed the ‘nationality principle’ to define policies and populations in these territories. As in most of Europe at the time, sovereignty was increasingly predicated on the contemporary ideal of the nation state, in which borders, ethnicity, language and citizenship were all bound together. Of course, as a multiethnic empire, Austria-Hungary was much more concerned about centralising state authority (and then fighting a world war) than national homogeneity, while Italy's nationalisation campaign in the interwar period became fundamental to its presence in the new provinces. Still, both states sought to classify and ultimately to control their border populations by privileging ethnolinguistic categories of citizenship.

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Rethinking nineteenth-century literary culture: British worlds, southern latitudes and hemispheric methods

The Journal of Commonwealth Literature ◽

10.1177/0021989420982013 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 002198942098201

Author(s):

Sarah Comyn ◽

Porscha Fermanis

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Nineteenth Century ◽

New Zealand ◽

Literary Culture ◽

Settler Colonialism ◽

Indigenous Studies ◽

Literary Cultures ◽

History Of ◽

Literary Canons ◽

Methodological Position

Drawing on hemispheric, oceanic, and southern theory approaches, this article argues for the value of considering the nineteenth-century literary cultures of the southern settler colonies of Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa from within an interconnected frame of analysis. First, because of their distinctive historical and structural conditions; second, because of the density of their interregional networks and relations across intersecting oceanic spaces; and third, because of the long history of racialized imperialist imaginaries of the south. This methodological position rethinks current approaches to “British world” studies in two important ways: first, by decoupling the southern settler colonies from studies of settler colonialism in North America; and second, by rebalancing its metropolitan and northern locus by considering south-south networks and relations across a complex of southern islands, oceans, and continents. Without suggesting either that imperial intercultural exchanges with Britain are unimportant or that there is a culturally homogenous body of pan-southern writing, we argue that nineteenth-century literary culture from colonial Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa — what we call a “southern archive” — can provide a counterbalance to northern biases and provide new purchase on nation-centred literary paradigms — one that reveals not just south-south transnational exchanges and structural homologies between southern genres, themes, and forms, but also allows us to acknowledge the important challenges to foundational accounts of national literary canons initiated by southern theory and Indigenous studies scholars.

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‘You be my body for me’

Philosophy & Social Criticism ◽

10.1177/0191453716651667 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 43 (1) ◽

pp. 83-95 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Catherine Kellogg

Keyword(s):

Settler Colonialism ◽

Forced Migration ◽

Judith Butler ◽

The Body ◽

Phenomenology Of Spirit ◽

Politics Of Recognition ◽

Liberal Politics ◽

Property Relations ◽

History Of ◽

Current Shift

Judith Butler and Catherine Malabou’s recent exchange, ‘You Be My Body for Me: Body, Shape and Plasticity in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit’, is remarkable because in their rereading of Hegel’s famous lord and bondsman parable, rather than focusing on recognition, work, or even desire, Butler and Malabou each wonder about how Hegel contributes to a new way of thinking about ‘having’ a body and how coming to ‘be’ a body necessarily involves a kind of dispossession. Butler and Malabou’s reading of Hegel is congruent with a current shift on the left away from a liberal politics of recognition to a (post-)Marxist analytic of dispossession: a move, in other words, away from liberal ‘solutions’ of redistribution – of either goods or recognition – towards thinking through issues of settler colonialism, forced migration and empire. Butler and Malabou’s piece points towards the insight that Hegel’s parable must be thought in terms of the political history of possessive individualism, and so in terms of the history of juridically defined property relations; the history of regarding both the body and the land as property. The ‘two valences’ of dispossession, in other words, refers in fact to a logic of property relations, one between those who ‘have’ property (either land or the property of their own bodies) and those who are juridically defined as propertyless.

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Palestine and Genocide: An International Historical Perspective Revisited

Holy Land Studies ◽

10.3366/hls.2013.0056 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 1-7 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Martin Shaw

Keyword(s):

Historical Perspective ◽

Settler Colonialism ◽

Holy Land ◽

Unique Combination ◽

East European ◽

History Of

This commentary reviews the responses to an earlier article, ‘Palestine in an International Historical Perspective on Genocide’ (Holy Land Studies, 9:1, 1–25), arguing that they illustrate both the possibilities and the limitations of serious debate about these issues. The responses mostly neglected the analytical core of the argument relating to 1948, which is therefore restated, emphasising Palestine's unique combination of elements that were parts of three general patterns implicated in genocide production (settler colonialism, East European nationalism, conflicts of decolonisation). The paper also gives further attention to the implications of the perspective for understanding the ‘genocide’ question in the subsequent history of the Israel-Palestine conflict.

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