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Ruling the Savage Periphery - Frontier Governance and the Making of the Modern State (Hardcover)
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Ruling the Savage Periphery - Frontier Governance and the Making of the Modern State (Hardcover)
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A provocative case that "failed states" along the periphery of
today's international system are the intended result of
nineteenth-century colonial design. From the Afghan frontier with
British India to the pampas of Argentina to the deserts of Arizona,
nineteenth-century empires drew borders with an eye toward placing
indigenous people just on the edge of the interior. They were too
nomadic and communal to incorporate in the state, yet their labor
was too valuable to displace entirely. Benjamin Hopkins argues that
empires sought to keep the "savage" just close enough to take
advantage of, with lasting ramifications for the global
nation-state order. Hopkins theorizes and explores frontier
governmentality, a distinctive kind of administrative rule that
spread from empire to empire. Colonial powers did not just create
ad hoc methods or alight independently on similar techniques of
domination: they learned from each other. Although the indigenous
peoples inhabiting newly conquered and demarcated spaces were
subjugated in a variety of ways, Ruling the Savage Periphery
isolates continuities across regimes and locates the patterns of
transmission that made frontier governmentality a world-spanning
phenomenon. Today, the supposedly failed states along the margins
of the international system-states riven by terrorism and
violence-are not dysfunctional anomalies. Rather, they work as
imperial statecraft intended, harboring the outsiders whom stable
states simultaneously encapsulate and exploit. "Civilization"
continues to deny responsibility for border dwellers while keeping
them close enough to work, buy goods across state lines, and
justify national-security agendas. The present global order is thus
the tragic legacy of a colonial design, sustaining frontier
governmentality and its objectives for a new age.
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