Violence, Resilience and the ‘Coolie’ Identity
Life and Survival on Ships to the Caribbean, 1834–1917
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11943324 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Saurabh Mishra (0000-0001-6646-4463, University of Sheffield, Sheffield UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 241-263 |
| Publication date | 2021-12-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-6534 • E-ISSN: 1743-9329 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03086534.2021.1985336 |
| OpenAlex | W4200238782 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 17 |
This essay looks at the migrants’ long journey from India to the plantation colonies, and examines the life on board ships in great detail. In doing this, it makes the overall argument that the oceanic journey was of great significance in the formation of the ‘coolie’ identity, as a lot of the ‘emotional work’ that was required to transform the migrant into a ‘coolie’ took place in the depots and on board ships. In this sense, life on ships was both a microcosm of, as well as a precursor to, the life on plantations. The essay also sees violence – not just in its physical or ‘spectacular’ forms, but also in its routinised forms – as a crucial agent that broke the migrants’ old sense of self, allowing them to reassemble the fragments and assume the ‘coolie’ identity
Art · Identity (music · Resilience (materials science · History · Maritime Security and History
Coolie Woman
Coolitude
Death Without Weeping
A New System of Slavery
Introduction
Remaking a World
Critical Perspectives on Indo-Caribbean Women's Literature
Maharani's Misery
Violence and Subjectivity
Life and Words
Capital Spectacles in British Frames”
Mortality and the pacific labour trade∗
The Center out There
It was Better during the War
Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |