Disciplinary Spaces : : Spatial Control, Forced Assimilation and Narratives of Progress since the 19th Century /

Disciplinary Spaces : : Spatial Control, Forced Assimilation and Narratives of Progress since the 19th Century / / ed. by Andrea Fischer-Tahir, Sophie Wagenhofer.

This volume looks at territories such as reservations, model villages and collective towns as the spatial materialization of forced assimilation and "progress". These disciplinary spaces were created in order to disempower and alter radically the behavior of people who were perceived as il...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2017
MitwirkendeR:
Babacan, Hurriyet,
Dörre, Andrei,
Fischer-Tahir, Andrea,
Genat, Mélisande,
Gopalkrishnan, Narayan,
Greenwald, Emily,
Hannah, Matthew,
Hansen, Thiago Freitas,
Hoshino, Thiago De Azevedo Pinheiro,
Lal, Priya,
Mlodoch, Karin,
Oettler, Anika,
Pommerening, Christian,
Schmidinger, Thomas,
Wagenhofer, Sophie,
HerausgeberIn:
Fischer-Tahir, Andrea,
Wagenhofer, Sophie,
Place / Publishing House:Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Sozial- und Kulturgeographie ; 14
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Physical Description:1 online resource (300 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Content
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: Spatial Control, Disciplinary Power and Assimilation: the Inevitable Side-Effects of ›Progress‹ and Capitalist ›Modernity‹
  • Chapter One: Into the West, into the East: Spatial Control and Property Relations
  • Law into the Far West: Territorial Rights, Indigenous Peoples and Spatial Imagination in the Baptism of the Brazilian Nation-State (1930s-1940s)
  • Land, People and Development Interventions: the Case of Rangelands and Mobile Pastoralists in Central Asia
  • Re-ordering American Indians' Spatial Practices: The 1887 Dawes Act
  • Chapter Two: Settlement Schemes and Development Dreams
  • Villagization and the Ambivalent Production of Rural Space in Tanzania
  • From Agrarian Experiments to Population Displacement: Iraqi Kurdish Collective Towns in the Context of Socialist ›Villagization‹ in the 1970s
  • Spatial Control, ›Modernization‹ and Assimilation: Large Dams in Nubia and the Arabization of Northern Sudan
  • Chapter Three: Spatial Control, Knowledge, and the ›Other‹
  • Prevailing Paradigms: Enforced Settlement, Control and Fear in Australian National Discourse
  • Disciplining the ›Other‹: Frictions and Continuations in Conceptualizing the ›Zigeuner‹ in the 18th and 19th Century
  • Chapter Four: Disciplinary Spaces as Counterinsurgency - Encountered and Countering
  • Scorched Earth Campaigns, Forced Resettlement and Ethnic Engineering: Guatemala in the 1980s
  • Appropriating and Transforming a Space of Violence and Destruction into one of Social Reconstruction: Survivors of the Anfal Campaign (1988) in the Collective Towns of Kurdistan
  • Discussion: Commentary on Disciplinary Spaces: Spatial Control, Forced Assimilation and Narratives of ›Progress‹ since the 19th Century
  • List of Contributors

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