Penal Power and Colonial Rule

ISBN-13: 9780415452137 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 218 str.

Brown Mark

Opis

Colonial Criminology provides an account of the distinctive way in which criminology developed outside the metropolitan center. Proposing a radical revision of the Foucauldian thesis that criminological knowledge emerged in the service of a new form of power - discipline - that had inserted itself into the very center of punishment, it argues that Foucault's alignment of sovereign, disciplinary and governmental power will, necessarily, need to be re-read and re-balanced to account for its operation in the colonial sphere. For, although the emergence of disciplinary power and its attendant forms of knowledge provided for key social transformations in the modernizing metropolitan state, in colonial states power was almost exclusively sovereign and governmental (bio-political), with disciplinary strategies given only limited and equivocal attention. In order to develop this argument, and give an account of the emergence of colonial criminology as a form of knowledge distinct from its metropolitan counterpart, this book provides an analysis of the key British colonial experience in India from the 1820s to the early 1920s.

Spis treści

Preface  1. Introduction  2. Colonial Governmentality  3. Immanence and Discovery: Thugs and Native Subjectivity  4. Between History and Nature: Visions of Native Crime and Social Marginality  5. The Temptations of Domination: Framing Disorder  6. Liberal Ontologies: Fashioning the Criminal Tribe  7. The State as Practice: Establishing a Modern Milieu  8. Penal Power and Colonial Rule 

O autorze

Dr Mark Brown is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Law, Sheffield University, UK, and an Honorary Senior Fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Previously based in Geneva, he worked as a law and justice consultant focused on actors in the international sphere. His earlier academic career was spent in Australia where he was in the criminology program at the University of Melbourne. He has also been a visiting professor at the Institute for Criminology and Criminal Law at the University of Lausanne and at Delhi University Law School. He is co-author of Penal Culture and Hyperincarceration (Routledge 2013) and author of Penal Power and Colonial Rule (Routledge 2014) and the forthcoming Remaking Criminology.