Carlos Rivera-Santana

Archaeology of Colonisation

From Aesthetics to Biopolitics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book rethinks the history of colonisation by focusing on the formation of the European aesthetic ideas of indigeneity and blackness in the Caribbean, and how these ideas were deployed as markers of biopolitical governance.

Produktdetails

• Critical Perspectives on Theory, Culture and Politics
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield International
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 442g
• ISBN-13: 9781786609007
• ISBN-10: 1786609002
• Artikelnr.: 56155407

Autorenporträt

Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies, College of William & Mary

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Archaeology of Colonisation Part 1: Origins: Colonial
Aesthetics (The Caribbean) 2. Aesthetics of Ugliness 3. Monstrous
Anthropology 4. Blackness Part 2: Command (Queensland, Australia) 5.
Biopolitics in Colonisation: The Inequality of Human Races 6. The Blanket
Approach 7. State of Exception in Australia 8. Conclusion: Colonisation