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[PAST EVENT] Archaeology of Colonisation: From Aesthetics to Biopolitics - Book Launch
Location
Zoom ID number 97750179290Access & Features
- Open to the public
The Latin American Studies Seminar Series of The University of Queensland, Australia is hosting William & Mary's Prof. Carlos Rivera Santana's Archaeology of Colonisation: From Aesthetics to Biopolitics book launch.
"This book rethinks the history of colonisation by focusing on the formation of the European aesthetic ideas of indigeneity and blackness in the Caribbean (and later in the Americas), and how these ideas were deployed as markers of biopolitical governance. Using Foucault’s philosophical archaeology as method, this work argues that the European formation of indigeneity and blackness was based on aesthetically casting Aboriginal and African peoples in the Caribbean as monsters yet with a similar degree of Western civilisation and ‘culture’. By focusing on the aesthetics of the first racial imageries that produced indigeneity and blackness this work takes a radical departure from the current Social Darwinian theorisations of race and racism. It reveals a new connection between the global origins of colonisation and local post-Enlightenment histories."
*Please note that the event day and time had been adjusted to Eastern Time
Contact
Carlos Rivera Santana [[w|crrivera]]