Miranda Spieler
Biographic Data
| ID | 328153 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Miranda Spieler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Miranda |
| FAMILY NAME | Spieler |
| SIGNATURE | SPIELER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arizona |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Slavery and the fetish
Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Michel de Certeau, ‘The Return of the Repressed in Psychoanalysis,’ in Michel de Certeau, Heterologies: Discourse on the Other, trans. Brian Massumi (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986), 4.2 See Charles Stewart, ‘Creolization, Hybridity, Syncretism, Mixture,’ Portuguese Studies 27, no. 1 (2011): 48–55. On Portuguese colonization, see Peter Mar…
The Right to Come and Go
Other participants in this forum will have addressed the way American common law shaped the meaning of public rights in postbellum Louisiana. Here I expand on Rebecca Scott's intuition about the transnational character of Louisiana's 1868 Constitution. I do so by suggesting a resonance between French legal writing and the Louisianan understanding of public rights. The innovative spirit of Edward Tinchant becomes all the more striking when his ide…
Intimate Bonds: Family and Slavery in the French Atlantic
Intimate Bonds tells the story of eighteenth-century families that shuttled between the colony of Saint Domingue and La Rochelle and endured prolonged separations resulting from travel in one or the other direction. Palmer’s subjects are Protestant merchants, fortune-seeking planters, the wives they left behind, slave women they took up with, free mixed-race children and slaves who sojourned or settled in France. To encapsulate the history of dis…
Slave Flight, Slave Torture, and the State: Nineteenth-Century French Guiana
This article explores the relationship between law and violence against slaves in nineteenth-century French Guiana. Drawing on unpublished sources from the colonial archives, Spieler examines the linked problems of slave abuse and slave flight to understand the evolving character of the French imperial state in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars. In the early nineteenth century, after the abolition of the slave trade, imperial administrators in…
Empire and Underworld: Captivity in French Guiana
In the century after the French Revolution, the South American outpost of Guiana became a depository for exiles--outcasts of the new French citizenry--and an experimental space for the exercise of new kinds of power and violence against marginal groups. Miranda Spieler chronicles the encounter between colonial officials, planters, and others, ranging from deported political enemies to convicts, ex-convicts, vagabonds, freed slaves, non-European i…
The destruction of liberty in French Guiana: Law, Identity and the Meaning of Legal Space, 1794-1830
This article examines the colonial legal culture of French Guiana from 1794 to 1830 during a period marked by dramatic historical rupture; slaves in the colony who were liberated by decree of the French legislature in 1794 were returned to slavery under Napoleon. People who managed to remain free in the nineteenth century endured humiliating legal handicaps as well as challenges to their free status. In Guiana during this period, a person's acces…
Empire and Underworld: Captivity in French Guiana
In the century after the French Revolution, the South American outpost of Guiana became a depository for exiles--outcasts of the new French citizenry--and an experimental space for the exercise of new kinds of power and violence against marginal groups. Miranda Spieler chronicles the encounter between colonial officials, planters, and others, ranging from deported political enemies to convicts, ex-convicts, vagabonds, freed slaves, non-European i…
The destruction of liberty in French Guiana: Law, Identity and the Meaning of Legal Space, 1794-1830
This article examines the colonial legal culture of French Guiana from 1794 to 1830 during a period marked by dramatic historical rupture; slaves in the colony who were liberated by decree of the French legislature in 1794 were returned to slavery under Napoleon. People who managed to remain free in the nineteenth century endured humiliating legal handicaps as well as challenges to their free status. In Guiana during this period, a person's acces…
Slave Flight, Slave Torture, and the State: Nineteenth-Century French Guiana
This article explores the relationship between law and violence against slaves in nineteenth-century French Guiana. Drawing on unpublished sources from the colonial archives, Spieler examines the linked problems of slave abuse and slave flight to understand the evolving character of the French imperial state in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars. In the early nineteenth century, after the abolition of the slave trade, imperial administrators in…
The destruction of liberty in French Guiana: Law, Identity and the Meaning of Legal Space, 1794-1830
This article examines the colonial legal culture of French Guiana from 1794 to 1830 during a period marked by dramatic historical rupture; slaves in the colony who were liberated by decree of the French legislature in 1794 were returned to slavery under Napoleon. People who managed to remain free in the nineteenth century endured humiliating legal handicaps as well as challenges to their free status. In Guiana during this period, a person's acces…
Empire and Underworld: Captivity in French Guiana
In the century after the French Revolution, the South American outpost of Guiana became a depository for exiles--outcasts of the new French citizenry--and an experimental space for the exercise of new kinds of power and violence against marginal groups. Miranda Spieler chronicles the encounter between colonial officials, planters, and others, ranging from deported political enemies to convicts, ex-convicts, vagabonds, freed slaves, non-European i…
Slave Flight, Slave Torture, and the State: Nineteenth-Century French Guiana
This article explores the relationship between law and violence against slaves in nineteenth-century French Guiana. Drawing on unpublished sources from the colonial archives, Spieler examines the linked problems of slave abuse and slave flight to understand the evolving character of the French imperial state in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars. In the early nineteenth century, after the abolition of the slave trade, imperial administrators in…
Intimate Bonds: Family and Slavery in the French Atlantic
Intimate Bonds tells the story of eighteenth-century families that shuttled between the colony of Saint Domingue and La Rochelle and endured prolonged separations resulting from travel in one or the other direction. Palmer’s subjects are Protestant merchants, fortune-seeking planters, the wives they left behind, slave women they took up with, free mixed-race children and slaves who sojourned or settled in France. To encapsulate the history of dis…
The Right to Come and Go
Other participants in this forum will have addressed the way American common law shaped the meaning of public rights in postbellum Louisiana. Here I expand on Rebecca Scott's intuition about the transnational character of Louisiana's 1868 Constitution. I do so by suggesting a resonance between French legal writing and the Louisianan understanding of public rights. The innovative spirit of Edward Tinchant becomes all the more striking when his ide…
Slavery and the fetish
Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Michel de Certeau, ‘The Return of the Repressed in Psychoanalysis,’ in Michel de Certeau, Heterologies: Discourse on the Other, trans. Brian Massumi (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986), 4.2 See Charles Stewart, ‘Creolization, Hybridity, Syncretism, Mixture,’ Portuguese Studies 27, no. 1 (2011): 48–55. On Portuguese colonization, see Peter Mar…
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