Multiple Power in Colonial Spaces
The panopticon has indeed failed in the past, at least in French Guiana. So has a regime of biopower introduced to regulate the lives of plantation workers in colonial Ceylon. Likewise, a pavilion plan hospital, designed as a “curing machine,” was inoperative in mitigating the high mortality rates...
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| Lingua: | Anglais |
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ABE Journal
2014
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| Accesso online: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Riassunto: | The panopticon has indeed failed in the past, at least in French Guiana. So has a regime of biopower introduced to regulate the lives of plantation workers in colonial Ceylon. Likewise, a pavilion plan hospital, designed as a “curing machine,” was inoperative in mitigating the high mortality rates of the “native” population in colonial Singapore. Instead of helping the colonial state “know the governed,” the detailed enumeration of population characteristics in the census of colonial India—o... |
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