Ruling the Savage Periphery: Frontier Governance and the Making of the Modern State

ISBN-13: 9780674980709 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 288 str.

Benjamin D. Hopkins

Opis

Benjamin Hopkins develops a new theory of colonial administration: frontier governmentality. This system placed indigenous peoples at the borders of imperial territory, where they could be both exploited and kept away. Today's "failed states" are a result. Condemned to the periphery of the global order, they function as colonial design intended.