English Colonialism

Arneil, Barbara

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“…The overall result was, as Barbara Arneil convincingly argues, the "defence of England's colonial policy in the New World" and the "dispossession of the aboriginal peoples of their land". 73 Like most natural lawyers before him, Vattel endorses the idea of an original community of ownership, for instance, when he claims that "the earth belongs to mankind in general". He states that discovery establishes merely ius ad occupationem, a rudimentary and inceptive title contingent upon follow-up effective occupation.…”

Section: Emer De Vattel: the Agricultural Argumentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Vitoria, Grotius, Pufendorf, Wolff and Vattel: Accomplices of European Colonialism and Exploitation or True Cosmopolitans?

Cavallar¹

2008

J Hist Int Law

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Section: Emer De Vattel: the Agricultural Argumentmentioning

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Vitoria, Grotius, Pufendorf, Wolff and Vattel: Accomplices of European Colonialism and Exploitation or True Cosmopolitans?

Cavallar¹

2008

J Hist Int Law

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“…Herein lies the notorious paradox in Locke's thought between his status as a theorist of radical political freedom in Europe and as an apologist for slavery and colonialism outside it. Scholars have attempted to reconcile this paradox in different ways, and many factors no doubt informed Locke's thinking here (Glausser, 1990;Arneil, 1996). The point I wish to stress, however, is the predisposition of his political theory, with its emphasis on a sovereignty suffused through the social body, to the closure of political communities around a territorial space congruent with the cultural attributes supposedly necessary to the citizen's proper exercise of that sovereignty -in other words, to the ethnogenesis of territorial nation-states within the broader field of a European political meta-community.…”

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Re‐Thinking the ‘Origins Debate’: Race Formation and Political Formations in England’s Chesapeake Colonies

Smaje

2002

J Historical Sociology

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The debate over the 'origins' of racism in colonial North America has been dominated by the view that racism was a consequence of the enslavement of Africanorigin labour, or alternatively that it was a prior -perhaps primordial -sentiment that shaped the process of enslavement. This paper offers an alternative reading of the evidence in suggesting that race formation can be understood in relation to the emergence of new forms of imagining political communities in early modern England, and Europe more generally. This argument can not only help refine understanding of race formation in early colonial America, but also sociological theories of race more generally, while helping avoid some of the theoretical problems entailed in attempting to trace the 'origins' of social phenomena.

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“…6 Further, and key to the history of modern genocide, Locke and others seemed to indicate that only in the domesticated space, the ius gentium, did law exist. 6 Further, and key to the history of modern genocide, Locke and others seemed to indicate that only in the domesticated space, the ius gentium, did law exist.…”

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Emptiness in the Colonial Gaze: Labor, Property, and Nature

Nelson

2011

Inter. Labor Working-Class Hist.

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Many who study colonialism have noted that the same words used by the colonizer to describe the colonized—“dirty,” “backward,” “uncultured,” and “possessing an improper understanding of the value of work and property”—were often identical to those that rich people used to describe the poor. They were the terms the “modern” used to describe the “not yet modern”; the urban the rural; the educated the uneducated. To use a British example: Those who wrote from positions of power (the urban, educated bourgeoisie) looked down upon, first, the urban poor, then the rural poor, then the Scottish, then the “half-civilized” Natives of North America; then, finally, they squinted from on high upon the Aborigines of Australia. All of these groups fell short of the “norm,” the way the colonizer understood the very height of modern progress. All of these groups were “lacking” something. Thus, in sometimes surprising ways, colonialism merely seems to be another manifestation of the exertion of power over the powerless, a relationship much closer to that of “class” than many expect. This is especially so in a field that produces much of the best work in cultural history, and where anything hinting at old-fashioned “labor history” is gauche (no pun intended). Yet, as the authors of the books under review argue, understandings of labor and property, and the manner with which they are tied to an understanding of nature, are more fundamental to the history of modern colonialism than, for example, race, the latter a category almost always invoked by the colonizer in a completely instrumental fashion.

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English Colonialism

Cited by 32 publications

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Vitoria, Grotius, Pufendorf, Wolff and Vattel: Accomplices of European Colonialism and Exploitation or True Cosmopolitans?

Vitoria, Grotius, Pufendorf, Wolff and Vattel: Accomplices of European Colonialism and Exploitation or True Cosmopolitans?

Re‐Thinking the ‘Origins Debate’: Race Formation and Political Formations in England’s Chesapeake Colonies

Emptiness in the Colonial Gaze: Labor, Property, and Nature

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