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Colonial Encounters (colonial + encounter)
Selected AbstractsColonizing nature: scientific knowledge, colonial power and the incorporation of India into the modern world-systemTHE BRITISH JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY, Issue 1 2001Zaheer Baber ABSTRACT In this paper, the role of scientific knowledge, institutions and colonialism in mutually co-producing each other is analysed. Under the overarching rubric of colonial structures and imperatives, amateur scientists sought to deploy scientific expertise to expand the empire while at the same time seeking to take advantage of the opportunities to develop their careers as ,scientists'. The role of a complex interplay of structure and agency in the development of modern science, not just in India but in Britain too is analysed. The role of science and technology in the incorporation of South Asian into the modern world system, as well as the consequences of the emergent structures in understanding the trajectory of modern science in post-colonial India is examined. Overall, colonial rule did not simply diffuse modern science from the core to the periphery. Rather the colonial encounter led to the development of new forms of scientific knowledge and institutions both in the periphery and the core. [source] The Cultural Burden of ArchitectureJOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION, Issue 4 2004GÜLSÜM BAYDAR Contemporary architectural discourse mostly assumes an unmediated link between architecture and culture. This is a historical assumption, however, rooted in colonial encounters when the notion of cultural difference first entered the architectural scene. In the first part of my article, I focus on a statement by Vitruvius that provides ways of thinking about architecture outside cultural identity categories. In the second part, I analyze two nineteenth-century texts to show both the cultural inscriptions of architectural discourse and their breaking points. Finally, I argue that recognizing the historicity of the relationship between architecture and culture involves problematizing architecture as an identity category as much as questioning culture as an architectural category. [source] The archaeology of colonial encounters: comparative perspectives , Edited by Gil J. SteinTHE JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE, Issue 2 2008David Hurst Thomas [source] Time's Arrow: Violence and Ethnohistorical Surrealism in the Lost ColonyANTHROPOLOGY & HUMANISM, Issue 1 2009Michael E. Harkin SUMMARY Standard ethnohistorical accounts of colonial encounters downplay violence and genocide in the interest of holistic ethnographic accounts. In particular, "upstreaming" is a technique that attempts to sublimate violence into interpretations of ethnological understanding. An argument is made for "ethnohistorical surrealism" as a methodology for preserving the ruptures of colonial contact. The principle of incommensurability is an important driver for the transformation of contact zone exchange systems into structures of violence. Drawing on Bataille's reading of the potlatch, exchange systems based on unreturnable gifts produce abjection in the recipient, which results in cycles of violence and ultimately subjection. [source] | ||||||||||