Affect, Agency, and Ambiguous Praxis
French expeditions in the Pacific Islands, 1827-50
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4549304 |
|---|---|
| Authors | B Douglas (0000-0002-7952-9673, Australian National University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1532-5768 • E-ISSN: 1532-5768 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/cch.2017.0019 |
| OpenAlex | W2605648598 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
This article considers the praxis and representation of military actions by French naval forces in the Pacific, exemplified in the interplay of agency and affect during three precolonial expeditions before 1850. I problematize the timing, motivations and goals of violent imperial retaliation to perceived Indigenous transgressions and disentangle the varied ontologies of justice, morality or efficacy that stimulated protagonists. Refusing simplistic binaries (us-them, European-Indigenous, White-Black, aggressor-victim, resistance-collaboration), I probe the multi-strandedness of encounters, the ambivalent emotions involved, and the situational effectiveness or vulnerability of imperial and Indigenous actions, expectations and alignments
Affect (linguistics · Agency (philosophy · Ambivalence · Biology · Computer security · Criminology · Economic Justice · Indigenous · Morality · Political science · Praxis · Situational ethics · Social science · Sociology · Vulnerability (computing · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Canadian Identity and History · Communication · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Ecology
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |