Contesting colonial hegemony : State and society in Africa and India
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Afrique, AsieThématique
colonialisme, résistance, politique, ÉtatDisciplinaire
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| Titre | Contesting colonial hegemony : State and society in Africa and India |
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| Type de publication | Livre |
| Langue principale de la publication | anglais |
| Année de publication | 1994 |
| Auteur | Dagmar ENGELS Shula MARKS |
| Nom de la collection | Veröffentlichungen des Deutschen Historischen Instituts in London |
| Nombre de pages | viii-349 |
| Éditeur | British Academic Press St. Martin's Press, |
| Ville | Londres = London New York |
| Genre | recueil d'études |
| Pays d'édition | Royaume-Uni |
| ISBN (Forme EAN-13) | 9781850437338 |
| Résumé/Présentation | " The English-speaking world rediscovered Antonio Gramsci's writings on hegemony in the 1970s. Since then his ideas on the nature of state power and popular compliance have formed part of a growing literature. There have, however, been few attempts to explore the extent to which these ideas can be usefully applied to colonial societies." "Despite imperial wars of conquest and colonial resistance, recent research suggests that in Africa and India under the British empire, direct violence (that is, violence of the state applied through soldiers and policemen) was the exception rather than the rule. In general, these agents of coercion were too few and far between to do more than administer exemplary violence from time to time. Even in the most violent circumstances direct coercion was accompanied by practices which had the dual effect of transforming colonial people's perceptions and, in the name of civilization and reason, day-to-day life as it was reproduced under colonial rule. The studies in this book are therefore concerned to explore the ambiguous interplay of coercion and the creation of consent in three specific areas: medicine, education and the law."" |
| Référence complète | Engels, Dagmar ; Marks, Shula (eds.). Contesting colonial hegemony : State and society in Africa and India. London : British Academic Press ; New York : Distributed by St. Martin's Press, coll. Veröffentlichungen des Deutschen Historischen Instituts in London, 1994. viii, 349 pages ; 22 cm |
