In the Shadows of the Tropics

Climate, Race and Biopower in Nineteenth Century Ceylon

James S. Duncan (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

228 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-26241-6 (ISBN)

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In this original work James Duncan explores the transformation of Ceylon during the mid-nineteenth century into one of the most important coffee growing regions of the world and investigates the consequent ecological disaster which erased coffee from the island. Using this fascinating case study by way of illustration, In the Shadows of the Tropics reveals the spatial unevenness and fragmentation of modernity through a focus on modern governmentality and biopower. It argues that the practices of colonial power, and the differences that race and tropical climates were thought to make, were central to the working out of modern governmental rationalities. In this context, the usefulness of Foucault's notions of biopower, discipline and governmentality are examined. The work contributes an important rural focus to current work on studies of governmentality in geography and offers a welcome non-state dimension by considering the role of the plantation economy and individual capitalists in the lives and deaths of labourers, the destabilization of subsistence farming and the aggressive re-territorialization of populations from India to Ceylon.

James S. Duncan is Reader in Cultural Geography, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, UK, and is Fellow of Emmanuel College, UK.

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 The Rise of a Plantation Economy; Chapter 3 Dark Thoughts: Reproducing Whiteness in the Tropics; Chapter 4 The Quest to Discipline Estate Labour; Chapter 5 The Medical Gaze and the Spaces of Biopower; Chapter 6 Visualizing Crime in the Coffee Districts; Chapter 7 Landscapes of Despair: The Last Years of Coffee; Chapter 8 Conclusion;

Erscheinungsdatum	08.01.2017
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
	Technik
ISBN-10	1-138-26241-2 / 1138262412
ISBN-13	978-1-138-26241-6 / 9781138262416
Zustand	Neuware