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

Published by transcript Verlag 2017

Disciplinary Spaces

Spatial Control, Forced Assimilation and Narratives of Progress since the 19th Century

Edited by: Andrea Fischer-Tahir and Sophie Wagenhofer

Volume 14 in the series Sozial- und Kulturgeographie

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839434871

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About this book

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 ill-suited "to fit" into hegemonic imaginations of "the nation" since the 19th century.
Comparing examples from the Americas, Australia, North and East Africa, Central Europe as well as West and Central Asia, the book not only considers the acts and legitimizing narrations of ruling actors, but highlights the agency of the subaltern who are often misrepresented as passive victims of violent assimilation strategies.

Author / Editor information

Andrea 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.
Sophie Wagenhofer (PhD) is a historian specialized in entangled history with a focus on Europe and North Africa.

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»[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

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Table of Content Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
Introduction: Spatial Control, Disciplinary Power and Assimilation: the Inevitable Side-Effects of ›Progress‹ and Capitalist ›Modernity‹ Andrea Fischer-Tahir and Sophie Wagenhofer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
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) Thiago De Azevedo Pinheiro Hoshino and Thiago Freitas Hansen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
Land, People and Development Interventions: the Case of Rangelands and Mobile Pastoralists in Central Asia Andrei Dörre Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
Re-ordering American Indians’ Spatial Practices: The 1887 Dawes Act Emily Greenwald Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
Chapter Two: Settlement Schemes and Development Dreams
Villagization and the Ambivalent Production of Rural Space in Tanzania Priya Lal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
From Agrarian Experiments to Population Displacement: Iraqi Kurdish Collective Towns in the Context of Socialist ›Villagization‹ in the 1970s Mélisande Genat Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
Spatial Control, ›Modernization‹ and Assimilation: Large Dams in Nubia and the Arabization of Northern Sudan Thomas Schmidinger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
Chapter Three: Spatial Control, Knowledge, and the ›Other‹
Prevailing Paradigms: Enforced Settlement, Control and Fear in Australian National Discourse Hurriyet Babacan and Narayan Gopalkrishnan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
Disciplining the ›Other‹: Frictions and Continuations in Conceptualizing the ›Zigeuner‹ in the 18th and 19th Century Christian Pommerening Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
Chapter Four: Disciplinary Spaces as Counterinsurgency – Encountered and Countering
Scorched Earth Campaigns, Forced Resettlement and Ethnic Engineering: Guatemala in the 1980s Anika Oettler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
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 Karin Mlodoch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
Discussion: Commentary on Disciplinary Spaces: Spatial Control, Forced Assimilation and Narratives of ›Progress‹ since the 19th Century Matthew Hannah Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 300
Keywords: Violence; Ethnocide; Racism; Agency; Culture; Cultural History; Cultural Geography; Ethnology; Geography

eBook

Published: April 27, 2017
ISBN: 9783839434871