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

ISBN-13: 9783837634877 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 280 str.

Andrea Fischer-Tahir; Sophie Wagenhofer

Opis

This volume looks at spaces such as reservations, model villages, and collective towns as spatial and disciplinary techniques - implemented in order to disempower and radically alter the behavior of people who were perceived as ill-suited to fit into the hegemonic concept of "the nation" from the 19th century onwards. Comparing examples from the Americas, Australia, Eastern Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and Central Asia, the book considers the acts and legitimizing narratives of the powerful alongside the agency of the subaltern, who are often misrepresented as passive victims of violent assimilation strategies.

Recenzje

"[Es] handelt sich um einen facettenreichen Sammelband, der spannende Analysen zu einem wichtigen Thema vereint. Er ist, ganz im Sinne von Hannahs Schlusswort, ein wertvoller Anstoß zur weiteren kritischen Auseinandersetzung mit diesen (und weiteren) Räumen und Geschichten, denn das Thema ist höchst aktuell." Andreas Weiß, www.connections.clio-online.net, 06.09.2019

O autorze

Fischer-Tahir, AndreaAndrea Fischer-Tahir (Dr. phil.), born in 1971, is working as a lecturer for inclusive education at TU Dresden. She has long-standing experience in area studies with a focus on history, sociology and politics in Kurdistan. Her conceptual work involves space production, gender, knowledge, resistance, as well as construction of memory.