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Archaeology of Colonisation - From Aesthetics to Biopolitics

English · Paperback / Softback

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This book rethinks the history of colonisation by focusing on the formation of the European aesthetic ideas of indigeneity and blackness in the Caribbean, and how these ideas were deployed as markers of biopolitical governance.

List of contents










1. Introduction: Archaeology of Colonisation

Part 1: Origins: Colonial Aesthetics (The Caribbean)

2. Aesthetics of Ugliness

3. Monstrous Anthropology

4. Blackness

Part 2: Command (Queensland, Australia)

5. Biopolitics in Colonisation: The Inequality of Human Races

6. The Blanket Approach

7. State of Exception in Australia

8. Conclusion: Colonisation

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By Carlos Rivera-Santana

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