Rethinking the colonial state /

• Other Authors: Rud, Søren (Editor), Ivarsson, Søren (Editor)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2017.
• Series: Political power and social theory ; v. 33.
• Subjects: Political planning.; Sociology.; Environmental management.; Political Science > Public Policy > General.; Political science & theory.

Table of Contents:

• Prelims
• Rethinking the colonial state: configurations of power, violence, and agency
• Colonial governmentality in Puerto Rico and the Philippines: Sovereign force, governmental rationality, and disciplinary institutions under US rule
• Comparing the colonial state - governing "the social" and policing the population in late 18th century India and Denmark
• Governing the risks of slavery: state-practice, slave law, and the problem of public order in 18th century Danish West Indies
• Ordering resistance: the late colonial state in the Portuguese Empire (1940 - 1975)
• Violence as usual: everyday police work and the colonial state in German Southwest Africa
• Colonial war and the production of territorialized state space in North Africa
• Resistance and reforms: the role of subaltern agency in colonial state development
• Colonialism by deferral: Samoa under the tridominium, 1889 - 1899
• About the editors
• Index.