A Schrauwers
Biographic Data
| ID | 49007 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Schrauwers |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Schrauwers |
| SIGNATURE | SCHRAUWERS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4096-0810 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 98 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Banknotes, bookkeeping barter, and cloth money: Conversions of "special-purpose money" in the cloth and dammar trade of Sulawesi, Indonesia, 1860-1905
The trade in cotton cloth and dammar in late nineteenth-century Sulawesi passed through three distinct exchange spheres mediated by barter. The highland end users transformed European-made cloth into a special-purpose money like the classic case of brass rods among the Tiv. In contrast to Bohannon's treatment of the Tiv, I set the highlanders' use of cloth money in the same analytic frame as the money of European trading companies and their local…
Merchant Kings: Corporate Governmentality in the Dutch Colonial Empire, 1815–1870
The liberal corporate order and the market transition in colonial Upper Canada, 1825–1841
This analysis of the corporate ‘franchise state’ in the settler colony of Upper Canada (Ontario) highlights its role in introducing both a liberal market and a corporate revolution. I contrast the liberal legislative project to create laissez faire markets with the private corporate agenda of those legislators, a group of ‘gentlemanly capitalists’ known as the Family Compact. The corporation became the vehicle by which these oligarchs controlled …
Colonies of benevolence: A carceral archipelago of empire in the greater Netherlands
The Colonies of Benevolence were an early nineteenth century Dutch utopian social experiment in pauper relief, domestic settler colonialism, and segregative rehabilitation; it served as the model for Mettray, held as the epitome of the ‘carceral archipelago’ in Discipline and Punish: the birth of the prison. This disciplinary experiment served as a model of ‘domestic colonization’ for more than a hundred years that was widely emulated throughout …
The spirit of the gift, the price of potency: A Maussian model of the Southeast Asian state of Luwu
This rereading of Mauss's The gift shifts the focus of discussion from the Maori hau to another example: tanoana (potency) among the Toraja (To Pamona) of Central Sulawesi. This potency animates an exchange with (human) gods that is at once gift and purchase (maoli). By tracing the intersection of this Maussian literature with that on the animist foundation of the Southeast Asian state, I analyse the nature of potent gifts that serve as a form of…
Tilting at Windmills: The Utopian Socialist Roots of the Patriot War, 1838-1839
The Hunters' Lodge was a secretive, grassroots American social movement that arose during the Patriot War in support of the Canadian Rebellions of 1837–38. However, despite the large number of participants, we know little about those who took part. This article decentres the military narratives that dominate the existing historiography by providing a collective cultural biography (or prosopography) of the Lodge's leadership elected in September 1…
Houses of Worship in Central Sulawesi: Precedence, Hierarchy & Class in the Development of House Ideology
The social and cultural complexity of the central portion of the island of Sulawesi was well documented by missionary ethnographers at the end of the nineteenth century. Drawing on this extensive corpus of historical material, I sketch out a comparative framework for the analysis of the development of House ideology there. The six coastal kingdoms that encompassed the highlands of central Sulawesi were politically organised in Houses, a kinship s…
Policing production
This article reexamines the Cultivation System in early nineteenth-century Java as part of an assemblage of Crown strategies, programs, and technologies to manage the economy-and more particularly, "police" the paupers-of the "greater Netherlands." This article looks at the integrated global commodity chains within which the System was embedded, and the common governmental strategies adopted by the Dutch Crown to manage these flows in both metrop…
A genealogy of corporate governmentality in the realm of the 'merchant-king: The Netherlands Trading Company and the management of Dutch paupers
The emergence of the modern corporation occurs at the same time as that of the modern state and liberal governmentality, although its role in the development of 'bio-power' has not been carefully examined. This article examines the royal use of corporations to manage the poor through work creation schemes and hence effect a capitalist transformation of the eastern Netherlands; specifically, the creation of the Dutch textile industry. These work c…
Money bound you-money shall loose you: Micro-Credit, Social Capital, and the Meaning of Money in Upper Canada
In late 1832, a small religious sect, the Children of Peace, completed their second place of worship, a temple, in the village of Hope in the sparsely settled northern reaches of Toronto's rural hinterland. Called by a vision to 'ornament the Christian Church with all the glory of Israel,' the Children of Peace rebuilt Solomon's temple as the seat of their New Jerusalem (Schrauwers 1993; 2009). As William Lyon Mackenzie, newspaper editor, mayor o…
Regenten” (Gentlemanly) Capitalism: Saint-Simonian Technocracy and the Emergence of the “Industrialist Great Club” in the Mid-nineteenth Century Netherlands
The geometric pattern of Amsterdam's canals was iconic of its nineteenth-century social order. The spider's web of canals fanned out along the Amstel river in concentric rings, its barge traffic linking the city to its hinterland, the province of Holland, and to the wider Netherlands of which it is the nominal capital. These canals divided the “Venice of the North” into ninety islands linked by more than a thousand bridges. Imposing aristocratic …
'Union is Strength': W.L. Mackenzie, The Children of Peace and the Emergence of Joint Stock Democracy in Upper Canada
Revolutions without a Revolutionary Moment: Joint Stock Democracy & the Transition to Capitalism in Upper Canada
The transitions to capitalism and responsible government are two revolutions without a revolutionary moment in Ontario's history. This article examines the contribution of the corporation to both in the years before the Rebellion of 1837. It contrasts the ‘gentlemanly capitalism’ of chartered corporations under the oligarchic control of the Family Compact with a series of unincorporated joint stock companies managed by reformers, and by a small r…
H(h)ouses, E(e)states and class; On the importance of capitals in central Sulawesi
Through a Glass Darkly: Charity, Conspiracy, and Power in New Order Indonesia
An Apartheid of Souls: Religious Rationalisation in the Netherlands and Indonesia
Described in travel books as a ‘sleepy church town’, Tentena is unusual in Indonesia, a nation where ninety per cent of the population is Muslim. In Tentena, on the island of Sulawesi, the proportions are reversed. There, as in much of rural Indonesia, religion clearly demarcates distinct ethnic and class boundaries: the majority of ethnic To Pamona, the indigenous peoples of the area, converted to Protestantism under the Netherlands Missionary S…
An Apartheid of Souls: Dutch and Afrikaner Colonialism and its Aftermath in Indonesia and South Africa – an Introduction
South Africa and Indonesia are countries whose postcolonial trajectory has been characterised by racial, ethnic and religious tensions: tensions whose roots lie in their shared colonial past. Whether simmering and subdued, or overt and necessitating international intervention, these tensions demand a renewed critical perspective by academics who, until now, have made little attempt to transcend the two, previously discrete, arenas of scholarship.…
Letter from the Guest Editors
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The Miser's Store: Property and Traditional Law in the Governance of the 'Native' Economy
Recent studies of 'liberal governmentality' have examined how state actions regulate the ideally self-regulating economic sphere [Burchell, 1991]; this article highlights the particular dilemmas of liberal governmentality in a colonial arena where not one, but two types of economy were posited. By analysing the system of traditional property law implemented by the Dutch in two locations in central Sulawesi, Netherlands East Indies (now Indonesia)…
The Mission of Cultural Creation
Albert Schrauwers's book on missionization in eastern Central Sulawesi neatly bounds its subject between the end of the nineteenth and the end of the twentieth centuries, two fin de siecle moments.His incisive portrayal of how Protestant missionaries brought sociopolitical transformation to the Lake Poso region during that one hundred years illuminates an interesting Indonesian case of religious rationalization.It also invites reflection on the t…
Colonial "Reformation" in the Highlands of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, 1892-1995
The To Pamona, the people of the highlands of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, exhibit the effects of a complicated history of colonial contact. In this anthropological study, Albert Schrauwers examines the profound impact of a Dutch Protestant Mission on the religion and culture of the To Pamona. Schrauwers reveals how a unique discourse on religion in the Netherlands was exported to its colony, Indonesia. The missionaries fostered a religious natio…
Sitting in Silence: Self, Emotion, and Tradition in the Genesis of a Charismatic Ministry
David Willson was the charismatic leader of a small Utopian Quaker sect, the Children of Peace (1812-89), who prophesied a millenarian transformation of the British empire. This article examines the confluence of social forces and historical conditions that made this charismatic ministry possible. Following Csordas, the emphasis is placed on the means by which followership is created, rather than on the personality of the leader. I argue that Wil…
The 'Benevolent' Colonies of Johannes van den Bosch: Continuities in the Administration of Poverty in the Netherlands and Indonesia
Veenhuizen, an agricultural “colony” for the criminalized poor, is a well-known national historic site in the Netherlands; it is as much a monument to early- nineteenth-century utopian socialist idealism as it is a Dickensian poorhouse, a warehouse for the disenfranchised. Its founder, Johannes van den Bosch, is better known outside the Netherlands for his activities on a different colonial stage as the architect of the Cultivation System, a syst…
Colonial 'Reformation' in the Highlands of Central Sulawesi Indonesia,1892-1995
Three weddings and a performance: Marriage, households, and development in the highlands of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia
To Pamona couples are generally married in three ceremonies: traditional, church, and civil. Here, I treat each ceremony as a performative genre that constitutes the household differently. Both church and state actors see themselves as modernist reformers of tradition, which they view as a hindrance to development. I argue, however, that the traditional household form is the product of the modernizing efforts of church and state and hence points …
Negotiating parentage: The political economy of "kinship" in central Sulawesi, Indonesia
Widespread fosterage and adoption has recently emerged around Lake Poso in Central Sulawesi within the wider constraints of peasantization, whereby kin are ideologically set off as a source of noncommodified labor for a newly constituted peasantry. The differentiation of this peasantry has been blunted and a kin-based "moral economy" created through the transfer of dependents (rather than resources) between households. This transfer of kin has be…
The 'Benevolent' Colonies of Johannes van den Bosch: Continuities in the Administration of Poverty in the Netherlands and Indonesia
Veenhuizen, an agricultural “colony” for the criminalized poor, is a well-known national historic site in the Netherlands; it is as much a monument to early- nineteenth-century utopian socialist idealism as it is a Dickensian poorhouse, a warehouse for the disenfranchised. Its founder, Johannes van den Bosch, is better known outside the Netherlands for his activities on a different colonial stage as the architect of the Cultivation System, a syst…
Three weddings and a performance: Marriage, households, and development in the highlands of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia
To Pamona couples are generally married in three ceremonies: traditional, church, and civil. Here, I treat each ceremony as a performative genre that constitutes the household differently. Both church and state actors see themselves as modernist reformers of tradition, which they view as a hindrance to development. I argue, however, that the traditional household form is the product of the modernizing efforts of church and state and hence points …
Houses, hierarchy, headhunting and exchange; Rethinking political relations in the Southeast Asian realm of Luwu
Rethinking Political Relations in the Southeast Asian Realm of Luwu' 1The kingdom of Luwu', the cradle of Bugis civilization, is the acknowledged 'elder sibling' of the other South Sulawesi kingdoms which came to overshadow it.A contemporary of Majapahit, it is mentioned in Javanese court chronicles as early as 1365 and reached its zenith in the sixteenth century (Van Fraassen 1991:3).lts suzerainty stretched across the northern end of the Bay of…
A genealogy of corporate governmentality in the realm of the 'merchant-king: The Netherlands Trading Company and the management of Dutch paupers
The emergence of the modern corporation occurs at the same time as that of the modern state and liberal governmentality, although its role in the development of 'bio-power' has not been carefully examined. This article examines the royal use of corporations to manage the poor through work creation schemes and hence effect a capitalist transformation of the eastern Netherlands; specifically, the creation of the Dutch textile industry. These work c…
H(h)ouses, E(e)states and class; On the importance of capitals in central Sulawesi
The Household and Shared Poverty in the Highlands of Central Sulawesi
Analysis of Geertz's concept of 'shared poverty' has generally been restricted to the case of Java. By examining a newly created peasantry in the highlands of Sulawesi, I challenge the assumptions underlying Geertz's formulation of 'shared poverty' and that of his critics. These critics have questioned the applicability of the concept in a commodified economy, but have accepted its relevance in an increasingly more remote and 'traditional' past. …
Sitting in Silence: Self, Emotion, and Tradition in the Genesis of a Charismatic Ministry
David Willson was the charismatic leader of a small Utopian Quaker sect, the Children of Peace (1812-89), who prophesied a millenarian transformation of the British empire. This article examines the confluence of social forces and historical conditions that made this charismatic ministry possible. Following Csordas, the emphasis is placed on the means by which followership is created, rather than on the personality of the leader. I argue that Wil…
Let's party: State intervention, discursive traditionalism and the labour process of Highland rice cultivators in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia
The state has intruded in the labour process of the highland wet-rice farmers of Central Sulawesi since the imposition of Dutch colonial rule in 1905. Capitalist development since that time has resulted in differentiation in the ownership of the means of production; however, class tensions have been countered by the New Order state's shrouding the work process in a 'discursive traditionalism' which transforms wage labour into a 'work party'. The …
Colonies of benevolence: A carceral archipelago of empire in the greater Netherlands
The Colonies of Benevolence were an early nineteenth century Dutch utopian social experiment in pauper relief, domestic settler colonialism, and segregative rehabilitation; it served as the model for Mettray, held as the epitome of the ‘carceral archipelago’ in Discipline and Punish: the birth of the prison. This disciplinary experiment served as a model of ‘domestic colonization’ for more than a hundred years that was widely emulated throughout …
The spirit of the gift, the price of potency: A Maussian model of the Southeast Asian state of Luwu
This rereading of Mauss's The gift shifts the focus of discussion from the Maori hau to another example: tanoana (potency) among the Toraja (To Pamona) of Central Sulawesi. This potency animates an exchange with (human) gods that is at once gift and purchase (maoli). By tracing the intersection of this Maussian literature with that on the animist foundation of the Southeast Asian state, I analyse the nature of potent gifts that serve as a form of…
Policing production
This article reexamines the Cultivation System in early nineteenth-century Java as part of an assemblage of Crown strategies, programs, and technologies to manage the economy-and more particularly, "police" the paupers-of the "greater Netherlands." This article looks at the integrated global commodity chains within which the System was embedded, and the common governmental strategies adopted by the Dutch Crown to manage these flows in both metrop…
Money bound you-money shall loose you: Micro-Credit, Social Capital, and the Meaning of Money in Upper Canada
In late 1832, a small religious sect, the Children of Peace, completed their second place of worship, a temple, in the village of Hope in the sparsely settled northern reaches of Toronto's rural hinterland. Called by a vision to 'ornament the Christian Church with all the glory of Israel,' the Children of Peace rebuilt Solomon's temple as the seat of their New Jerusalem (Schrauwers 1993; 2009). As William Lyon Mackenzie, newspaper editor, mayor o…
The Miser's Store: Property and Traditional Law in the Governance of the 'Native' Economy
Recent studies of 'liberal governmentality' have examined how state actions regulate the ideally self-regulating economic sphere [Burchell, 1991]; this article highlights the particular dilemmas of liberal governmentality in a colonial arena where not one, but two types of economy were posited. By analysing the system of traditional property law implemented by the Dutch in two locations in central Sulawesi, Netherlands East Indies (now Indonesia)…
Banknotes, bookkeeping barter, and cloth money: Conversions of "special-purpose money" in the cloth and dammar trade of Sulawesi, Indonesia, 1860-1905
The trade in cotton cloth and dammar in late nineteenth-century Sulawesi passed through three distinct exchange spheres mediated by barter. The highland end users transformed European-made cloth into a special-purpose money like the classic case of brass rods among the Tiv. In contrast to Bohannon's treatment of the Tiv, I set the highlanders' use of cloth money in the same analytic frame as the money of European trading companies and their local…
Houses of Worship in Central Sulawesi: Precedence, Hierarchy & Class in the Development of House Ideology
The social and cultural complexity of the central portion of the island of Sulawesi was well documented by missionary ethnographers at the end of the nineteenth century. Drawing on this extensive corpus of historical material, I sketch out a comparative framework for the analysis of the development of House ideology there. The six coastal kingdoms that encompassed the highlands of central Sulawesi were politically organised in Houses, a kinship s…
Regenten” (Gentlemanly) Capitalism: Saint-Simonian Technocracy and the Emergence of the “Industrialist Great Club” in the Mid-nineteenth Century Netherlands
The geometric pattern of Amsterdam's canals was iconic of its nineteenth-century social order. The spider's web of canals fanned out along the Amstel river in concentric rings, its barge traffic linking the city to its hinterland, the province of Holland, and to the wider Netherlands of which it is the nominal capital. These canals divided the “Venice of the North” into ninety islands linked by more than a thousand bridges. Imposing aristocratic …
An Apartheid of Souls: Dutch and Afrikaner Colonialism and its Aftermath in Indonesia and South Africa – an Introduction
South Africa and Indonesia are countries whose postcolonial trajectory has been characterised by racial, ethnic and religious tensions: tensions whose roots lie in their shared colonial past. Whether simmering and subdued, or overt and necessitating international intervention, these tensions demand a renewed critical perspective by academics who, until now, have made little attempt to transcend the two, previously discrete, arenas of scholarship.…
The Household and Shared Poverty in the Highlands of Central Sulawesi
Analysis of Geertz's concept of 'shared poverty' has generally been restricted to the case of Java. By examining a newly created peasantry in the highlands of Sulawesi, I challenge the assumptions underlying Geertz's formulation of 'shared poverty' and that of his critics. These critics have questioned the applicability of the concept in a commodified economy, but have accepted its relevance in an increasingly more remote and 'traditional' past. …
Houses, hierarchy, headhunting and exchange; Rethinking political relations in the Southeast Asian realm of Luwu
Rethinking Political Relations in the Southeast Asian Realm of Luwu' 1The kingdom of Luwu', the cradle of Bugis civilization, is the acknowledged 'elder sibling' of the other South Sulawesi kingdoms which came to overshadow it.A contemporary of Majapahit, it is mentioned in Javanese court chronicles as early as 1365 and reached its zenith in the sixteenth century (Van Fraassen 1991:3).lts suzerainty stretched across the northern end of the Bay of…
Let's party: State intervention, discursive traditionalism and the labour process of Highland rice cultivators in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia
The state has intruded in the labour process of the highland wet-rice farmers of Central Sulawesi since the imposition of Dutch colonial rule in 1905. Capitalist development since that time has resulted in differentiation in the ownership of the means of production; however, class tensions have been countered by the New Order state's shrouding the work process in a 'discursive traditionalism' which transforms wage labour into a 'work party'. The …
Notes and Comments
Negotiating parentage: The political economy of "kinship" in central Sulawesi, Indonesia
Widespread fosterage and adoption has recently emerged around Lake Poso in Central Sulawesi within the wider constraints of peasantization, whereby kin are ideologically set off as a source of noncommodified labor for a newly constituted peasantry. The differentiation of this peasantry has been blunted and a kin-based "moral economy" created through the transfer of dependents (rather than resources) between households. This transfer of kin has be…
Colonial 'Reformation' in the Highlands of Central Sulawesi Indonesia,1892-1995
Three weddings and a performance: Marriage, households, and development in the highlands of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia
To Pamona couples are generally married in three ceremonies: traditional, church, and civil. Here, I treat each ceremony as a performative genre that constitutes the household differently. Both church and state actors see themselves as modernist reformers of tradition, which they view as a hindrance to development. I argue, however, that the traditional household form is the product of the modernizing efforts of church and state and hence points …
The Mission of Cultural Creation
Albert Schrauwers's book on missionization in eastern Central Sulawesi neatly bounds its subject between the end of the nineteenth and the end of the twentieth centuries, two fin de siecle moments.His incisive portrayal of how Protestant missionaries brought sociopolitical transformation to the Lake Poso region during that one hundred years illuminates an interesting Indonesian case of religious rationalization.It also invites reflection on the t…
Colonial "Reformation" in the Highlands of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, 1892-1995
The To Pamona, the people of the highlands of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, exhibit the effects of a complicated history of colonial contact. In this anthropological study, Albert Schrauwers examines the profound impact of a Dutch Protestant Mission on the religion and culture of the To Pamona. Schrauwers reveals how a unique discourse on religion in the Netherlands was exported to its colony, Indonesia. The missionaries fostered a religious natio…
Sitting in Silence: Self, Emotion, and Tradition in the Genesis of a Charismatic Ministry
David Willson was the charismatic leader of a small Utopian Quaker sect, the Children of Peace (1812-89), who prophesied a millenarian transformation of the British empire. This article examines the confluence of social forces and historical conditions that made this charismatic ministry possible. Following Csordas, the emphasis is placed on the means by which followership is created, rather than on the personality of the leader. I argue that Wil…
The 'Benevolent' Colonies of Johannes van den Bosch: Continuities in the Administration of Poverty in the Netherlands and Indonesia
Veenhuizen, an agricultural “colony” for the criminalized poor, is a well-known national historic site in the Netherlands; it is as much a monument to early- nineteenth-century utopian socialist idealism as it is a Dickensian poorhouse, a warehouse for the disenfranchised. Its founder, Johannes van den Bosch, is better known outside the Netherlands for his activities on a different colonial stage as the architect of the Cultivation System, a syst…
The Miser's Store: Property and Traditional Law in the Governance of the 'Native' Economy
Recent studies of 'liberal governmentality' have examined how state actions regulate the ideally self-regulating economic sphere [Burchell, 1991]; this article highlights the particular dilemmas of liberal governmentality in a colonial arena where not one, but two types of economy were posited. By analysing the system of traditional property law implemented by the Dutch in two locations in central Sulawesi, Netherlands East Indies (now Indonesia)…
Through a Glass Darkly: Charity, Conspiracy, and Power in New Order Indonesia
An Apartheid of Souls: Religious Rationalisation in the Netherlands and Indonesia
Described in travel books as a ‘sleepy church town’, Tentena is unusual in Indonesia, a nation where ninety per cent of the population is Muslim. In Tentena, on the island of Sulawesi, the proportions are reversed. There, as in much of rural Indonesia, religion clearly demarcates distinct ethnic and class boundaries: the majority of ethnic To Pamona, the indigenous peoples of the area, converted to Protestantism under the Netherlands Missionary S…
An Apartheid of Souls: Dutch and Afrikaner Colonialism and its Aftermath in Indonesia and South Africa – an Introduction
South Africa and Indonesia are countries whose postcolonial trajectory has been characterised by racial, ethnic and religious tensions: tensions whose roots lie in their shared colonial past. Whether simmering and subdued, or overt and necessitating international intervention, these tensions demand a renewed critical perspective by academics who, until now, have made little attempt to transcend the two, previously discrete, arenas of scholarship.…
Letter from the Guest Editors
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
H(h)ouses, E(e)states and class; On the importance of capitals in central Sulawesi
Revolutions without a Revolutionary Moment: Joint Stock Democracy & the Transition to Capitalism in Upper Canada
The transitions to capitalism and responsible government are two revolutions without a revolutionary moment in Ontario's history. This article examines the contribution of the corporation to both in the years before the Rebellion of 1837. It contrasts the ‘gentlemanly capitalism’ of chartered corporations under the oligarchic control of the Family Compact with a series of unincorporated joint stock companies managed by reformers, and by a small r…
'Union is Strength': W.L. Mackenzie, The Children of Peace and the Emergence of Joint Stock Democracy in Upper Canada
Regenten” (Gentlemanly) Capitalism: Saint-Simonian Technocracy and the Emergence of the “Industrialist Great Club” in the Mid-nineteenth Century Netherlands
The geometric pattern of Amsterdam's canals was iconic of its nineteenth-century social order. The spider's web of canals fanned out along the Amstel river in concentric rings, its barge traffic linking the city to its hinterland, the province of Holland, and to the wider Netherlands of which it is the nominal capital. These canals divided the “Venice of the North” into ninety islands linked by more than a thousand bridges. Imposing aristocratic …
Policing production
This article reexamines the Cultivation System in early nineteenth-century Java as part of an assemblage of Crown strategies, programs, and technologies to manage the economy-and more particularly, "police" the paupers-of the "greater Netherlands." This article looks at the integrated global commodity chains within which the System was embedded, and the common governmental strategies adopted by the Dutch Crown to manage these flows in both metrop…
A genealogy of corporate governmentality in the realm of the 'merchant-king: The Netherlands Trading Company and the management of Dutch paupers
The emergence of the modern corporation occurs at the same time as that of the modern state and liberal governmentality, although its role in the development of 'bio-power' has not been carefully examined. This article examines the royal use of corporations to manage the poor through work creation schemes and hence effect a capitalist transformation of the eastern Netherlands; specifically, the creation of the Dutch textile industry. These work c…
Money bound you-money shall loose you: Micro-Credit, Social Capital, and the Meaning of Money in Upper Canada
In late 1832, a small religious sect, the Children of Peace, completed their second place of worship, a temple, in the village of Hope in the sparsely settled northern reaches of Toronto's rural hinterland. Called by a vision to 'ornament the Christian Church with all the glory of Israel,' the Children of Peace rebuilt Solomon's temple as the seat of their New Jerusalem (Schrauwers 1993; 2009). As William Lyon Mackenzie, newspaper editor, mayor o…
Houses of Worship in Central Sulawesi: Precedence, Hierarchy & Class in the Development of House Ideology
The social and cultural complexity of the central portion of the island of Sulawesi was well documented by missionary ethnographers at the end of the nineteenth century. Drawing on this extensive corpus of historical material, I sketch out a comparative framework for the analysis of the development of House ideology there. The six coastal kingdoms that encompassed the highlands of central Sulawesi were politically organised in Houses, a kinship s…
Tilting at Windmills: The Utopian Socialist Roots of the Patriot War, 1838-1839
The Hunters' Lodge was a secretive, grassroots American social movement that arose during the Patriot War in support of the Canadian Rebellions of 1837–38. However, despite the large number of participants, we know little about those who took part. This article decentres the military narratives that dominate the existing historiography by providing a collective cultural biography (or prosopography) of the Lodge's leadership elected in September 1…
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