Using the Natives against the Natives: Indigenes as ‘Counterinsurgents’ in the British Atlantic, 1500–1800

Lee, Wayne E.

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“…Firstly, land was made 'waste' by the English not just ideologically but through colonial conquest and in particular the methods of 'feed fight'. This involved the devastation of indigenous means of subsistence by looting the products of their cultivation, clearing villages or destroying crops altogether (Lee, 2010). The racialised term 'waste' as a marker of 'savagery' was not already given in the materiality of the land nor was it solely an ideological invention, but had to be produced by colonial dispossession.…”

Section: Sovereignty In the Virginia Colonymentioning

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“…The treaty also 'retained the right to expand English territory at will' (Kruer, 2009: 97). It therefore marked the use of recognition as a means of extending English authority 'via indigenous communities who had subordinated themselves within an English-dominated hierarchy' (Lee, 2010). By co-opting some indigenous communities as 'native leadership', the English encouraged greater hierarchy among indigenous groups in order to divide resistance.…”

Section: Beyond All Recognitionmentioning

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Racial sovereignty

Nişancıoğlu

2019

European Journal of International Relations

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This article explores how International Relations (IR) might better conceptualise and analyse an underexplored but constitutive relationship between race and sovereignty. I begin with a critical analysis of the ‘orthodox account’ of sovereignty which, I argue, produces an analytical and historical separation of race and sovereignty by: (1) abstracting from histories of colonial dispossession; (2) treating racism as a resolved issue in IR. Against the orthodox account, I develop the idea of ‘racial sovereignty’ as a mode of analysis which can: (1) overcome the historical abstractions in the orthodox account; (2) disclose the ongoing significance of racism in international politics. I make this argument in three moves. Firstly, I present a history of the 17th century struggle between ‘settlers’ and ‘natives’ over the colonisation of Virginia. This history, I argue, discloses the centrality of dispossession and racialisation in the attendant attempts of English settlers to establish sovereignty in the Americas. Secondly, by engaging with criticisms of ‘recognition’ found in the anticolonial tradition, I argue that the Virginian experience is not simply of historical interest or localised importance but helps us better understand racism as ongoing and structural. I then demonstrate how contemporary assertions of sovereignty in the context of Brexit disclose a set of otherwise concealed colonial and racialised relations. I conclude with the claim that interrogations of racial sovereignty are not solely of historical interest but are of political significance for our understanding of the world today.

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Section: Sovereignty In the Virginia Colonymentioning

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Section: Beyond All Recognitionmentioning

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Racial sovereignty

Nişancıoğlu

2019

European Journal of International Relations

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The Price of Blood

Junaid¹

2020

Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East

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The discourse of loyalty produces tense predicaments for those living under counterinsurgency regimes. The essay explores this theme by analyzing the case of a Kashmiri woman who found herself in a political drama when she accepted “blood money” from the person accused of causing her husband's death. The woman's decision accompanied moral turmoil in her village, and rumors of her “betrayal” circulated. However, the turmoil threatened to go beyond this localized setting. It brought to fore the fraught implications of “loyalty” shaped by India's occupation in Kashmir, its nationalist staging of Kashmiris as the subversive other, and schisms within Kashmir's historical independence movement. By tracing how rumors of individual betrayal were laced onto narratives of political treason in the case, the essay reveals the counterinsurgency as the operative context of broken intimate and intercommunity relations in which the personal is always at the threshold of becoming intensely public.

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Using the Natives against the Natives: Indigenes as ‘Counterinsurgents’ in the British Atlantic, 1500–1800

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Racial sovereignty

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