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Penal Power and Colonial Rule (Hardcover, New)
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Penal Power and Colonial Rule (Hardcover, New)
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Penal Power and Colonial Rule provides an account of the
distinctive way in which criminology developed outside the
metropolitan centre. Proposing a radical revision of the
Foucauldian thesis that criminological knowledge emerged in the
service of a new form of power -- discipline -- that had inserted
itself into the very centre of punishment, it argues that
Foucault's alignment of sovereign, disciplinary and governmental
power will, necessarily, need to be re-read and re-balanced to
account for its operation in the colonial sphere. For, although the
emergence of disciplinary power and its attendant forms of
knowledge provided for key social transformations in the
modernising metropolitan state, in colonial states power was almost
exclusively sovereign and governmental (bio-political), with
disciplinary strategies given only limited and equivocal attention.
In order to develop this argument, and give an account of the
emergence of colonial criminology as a form of knowledge distinct
from its metropolitan counterpart, this book provides an analysis
of the key British colonial experience in India from the 1820s to
the early 1920s. This analysis documents a colonial criminology,
that was tied in crucial ways to the demands of colonial
governance, whose birth can be placed fifty years or more before
Lombroso or Ferri stepped upon the European stage: a criminology
that developed its own unique modes of analysis, representation and
measurement independent of metropolitan theory and practice.
Drawing on postcolonial theory to ask whether we can speak of
colonial modernity' or the colonial state' in the singular, it is,
moreover, through the critical engagement of this analysis with
Foucault's theoretical and historical account of the development of
criminology that Penal Power and Colonial Rule opens up a new, and
unduly negleted area of research.
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