Introduction

Thinking with Deviance

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20073439
AutoresWill Jackson (0000-0002-7464-1615, University of Leeds), Emily J Manktelow (0000-0001-8275-9202, University of Kent)
Año2015
Páginas1-21
Fecha de publicación2015-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoCHAPTER
RevistaSubverting Empire (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialPalgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/9781137465870_1
OpenAlexW2462243132
ISBN9781137465870
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas51

Colonialism was invested in the performance of power — from the pomp and ceremony of the imperial durbars to the everyday interactions of performed superiorities. The basic legitimating idea behind empire was the notion that the colonisers were superior to the colonised, whether that be in the form of unique access to the means of production, supposedly democratic systems of governance or those racial and cultural registers of difference that justified rule and interlaced it with high-minded ideals of imperial benevolence. These were not de facto truths, but synthetic, constructed ideologies. Imperialism was invested in its own performance of pre-eminence and colonial powers believed themselves uniquely capable of harnessing their ascendancy for the benefit of themselves and others

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