Disciplinary Spaces: Spatial Control, Forced Assimilation and Narratives of Progress since the 19th Century (Social and Cultural Geography) - Softcover

 
9783837634877: Disciplinary Spaces: Spatial Control, Forced Assimilation and Narratives of Progress since the 19th Century (Social and Cultural Geography)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3837634876 ISBN 13: 9783837634877
Publisher: transcript publishing, 2017

Synopsis

This volume looks at territories such as reservations, model villages and collective towns as the spatial materialization of forced assimilation and "progress". These disciplinary spaces were created in order to disempower and alter radically the behavior of people who were perceived as ill-suited "to fit" into hegemonic imaginations of "the nation" since the 19th century.
Comparing examples from the Americas, Australia, North and East Africa, Central Europe as well as West and Central Asia, the book not only considers the acts and legitimizing narrations of ruling actors, but highlights the agency of the subaltern who are often misrepresented as passive victims of violent assimilation strategies.

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About the Authors

Andrea Fischer-Tahir (Dr. phil.), geb. 1971, lehrt an der TU Dresden inklusive Bildung. Sie war lange in der regionalwissenschaftlichen Forschung tätig und publizierte v.a. zu Geschichte, Soziologie und Politik in Kurdistan. Ihre konzeptionellen Schwerpunkte sind Raum, Gender, Wissen, Widerstand und die Konstruktion von Erinnerung.

Sophie Wagenhofer (PhD) is a historian specialized in entangled history with a focus on Europe and North Africa.

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Publisher
transcript publishing
Publication date
2017
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3837634876
ISBN 13 
9783837634877
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
300
Editor
Fischer-Tahir Andrea, Wagenhofer Sophie