2012
DOI: 10.14361/transcript.9783839417997.13
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Eine Bestandesaufnahme der postkolonialen Schweiz

Abstract: Die weit verbreitete Meinung, wonach die Schweiz mit dem Kolonialismus nichts zu tun gehabt habe, schlägt sich im helvetischen Kontext nicht nur im Geschichtsunterricht nieder, sondern auch in der medialen Berichterstattung, in der Außenpolitik oder in alltäglichen Gesprächen. Selbst in der neueren Historiographie fehlt eine Reflexion der Schweizer Position in der kolonialen Konstellation fast gänzlich. 2 Ist es im Kontrast zu diesem weitgehend fehlenden Problembewusstsein angebracht, so fragten wir Herausgebe… Show more

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“…While in Germany racisms are attributed to the colonial past or National Socialism, recent research has talked of a Swiss ‘colonialism without colonies’. From a de‐ or postcolonial perspective, however, it can also be argued that even in a state without any colonial possessions of its own, a ‘colonial imaginary [exists], which structures the perception of “others” right up to the present’ (Purtschert and others, , p. 14).…”
Section: Risks and Coping Strategies Of ‘Occupation Children’mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…While in Germany racisms are attributed to the colonial past or National Socialism, recent research has talked of a Swiss ‘colonialism without colonies’. From a de‐ or postcolonial perspective, however, it can also be argued that even in a state without any colonial possessions of its own, a ‘colonial imaginary [exists], which structures the perception of “others” right up to the present’ (Purtschert and others, , p. 14).…”
Section: Risks and Coping Strategies Of ‘Occupation Children’mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This is what we call a protectorate… but soon, the Romans went well beyond that: they imposed administrative laws (leges dates) on the conquered peoples; they created several Roman colonies in the very heart of foreign territories; they founded municipalities and gave them charters; they tried to control the jurisdiction; everywhere, they appointed their own prefects and magistrates; they changed everything for the sake of a unified system…the native government collapsed, they built a new government and instead of protecting them, they annexed the territory [translation F.W.] 24 Chailley described Roman colonization as a process of legal assimilation and political annexation. Those concepts resembled the French approach in colonizing modern Algeria, which France annexed in 1848.…”
Section: The Search For Common Origins: Colonialist Historiography An...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Khonou also recently endorsed the current colonial mind 'operational' within the African National Congress (ANC) echelons (compare Myers, 2008). Other recent border history works like those of Robert Ross on 'The Kat River Settlement' (on the Khoekhoen) in the 19th century, 24 Clifton Crais (on the Xhosa) 25 and Martin Legassick's 'Hidden Histories of Gordonia' (on Northern Cape land possession pertaining to the Basters and Blacks of the region), and the study on the Cape San in colonial times by Jared McDonald (2016), also fall within this ambit of colonial impact on South Africans.…”
Section: A Colonial Historiography Of South Africamentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Along the lines of research conducted in the Netherlands and Norway (Gullestad, 2005;Yanow and Van der Haar, 2012), it focuses on a national context where race remains unaddressed by dominant narratives. Still considered as having stayed apart from and unaffected by colonial flows (Purtschert et al, 2012), Switzerland offers a striking contrast with intensely race-conscious societies such as the United States (Blee, 2000). Exploring the fine mechanisms of the bureaucratic decision-making process helps to analyse how racialized representations blur the distinction between nationals and nonnationals.…”
Section: Troubles In the Fieldmentioning
confidence: 99%