Colonial Diffractions in Illiberal Times: Forecasts on the Future

IF 1.1 2区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Public Culture Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI:10.1215/08992363-8742184

A. Stoler

引用次数: 2

Abstract

This article identifies two radical shifts in how colonialism is politically positioned and temporally framed, shifts that alter what invocations of colonialism look like, what distinguishes the attention they garner, and thus what they are implicitly or explicitly called upon to do. For one, invocations of colonialism are now oriented less to “residual” damage than to deepening racial inequalities on which (il)liberal politics increasingly thrive. Two, they are rendered not only as violating histories of the present but as premonitions in a dark diagnostics, as foreboding forecasts—histories of the global future across broader zones of disrepair, disregard, and degraded care.

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非自由时代的殖民衍射:对未来的预测

本文确定了殖民主义在政治定位和时间框架上的两个根本性转变，这些转变改变了对殖民主义的召唤，改变了它们所吸引的注意力，从而改变了它们被暗示或明确地呼吁去做的事情。首先，对殖民主义的引用现在更倾向于加深种族不平等，而不是“残余”损害，而(非)自由主义政治正是在这种不平等的基础上日益繁荣。第二，它们不仅被描述为违反当前的历史，而且被描述为黑暗诊断中的预兆，作为不祥的预测-跨越年久失修，忽视和退化护理的更广泛区域的全球未来历史。

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Public Culture Multiple-

CiteScore

2.10

自引率

6.70%

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