Rémy Ollier and Imperial Citizenship
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18982000 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Z Nahaboo (0000-0003-3364-0269, Liverpool Hope University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 717-733 |
| Publication date | 2018-07-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Interventions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1369-801X • E-ISSN: 1469-929X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1369801x.2018.1487317 |
| OpenAlex | W2809315467 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 32 |
This essay discusses Rémy Ollier’s (1816–45) journalism. As an early claimant of citizenship through (rather than against) the British Empire during the 1840s, Ollier attempted to redress a gap that he perceived between the institutionalization of rights in Britain and Mauritius. Established accounts of Ollier’s political intervention provide a rich narrative of how his efforts are implicated in the development of rights in Mauritius and broader postcolonial nationalisms. However, I argue that facets of his expression of imperial citizenship reside apart from this genealogy. To explore how Ollier uniquely created imperial citizenship, an “acts”-influenced approach to citizenship is adopted. By analyzing his writings in La Sentinelle de Maurice, I reveal how imperial citizenship is generated through a subversive loyalism to Britain and an orientalist portrayal of indentured labourers. I conclude by mobilizing Ollier’s struggle as a challenge to the notion that citizenship realizes itself in teleological fashion
Art · Citizenship · Empire · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Redress · Sociology · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History, Culture, and Diplomacy · Law · Literature and Culture Studies
Race for Citizenship
Colonialism and Its Legacies
We, the People of Europe?
Subalternity and Representation
Provincializing Europe
A New System of Slavery
Becoming Imperial Citizens
Imperial citizenship
To Say the Least
The Wretched of the Earth
Citizens and Others
Creating the Creole Island slavery in eighteenth-century Mauritius
Slavery and Antislavery in Mauritius, 1810–33
Political Movements in Urban England, 1832–1914
Subverting orientalism
Scattered speculations on the subaltern and the popular
Necroidealism, or the Subaltern's Sacrificial Death
Remy Ollier, Mauritian Journalist and Patriot
Shades of Orientalism
Subaltern Studies I. Writings on South Asian History and Society
Racial Imperatives
A Critique of Postcolonial Reason
Slaves, Freedmen, and Indentured Laborers in Colonial Mauritius
The Politics of the Governed
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |