Hotel Tartary: Marco Polo, Yams , and the Biopolitics of Population

Kao, Wan-Chuan

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“…Writing about biopolitical control during the time of Marco Polo's travels and the Mongol Empire, Kao (:44) argues that the “yams”, crucial nodes in the Mongol messenger and diplomatic hosting system, were part of what can be called “a biopolitical hospitality in the service of imperial security”. With conceptual and historical roots in the Chinese Tang Dynasty, this network of hospitality stations helped the Mongol Empire (and later the Chinese Sung Dynasty) govern their subjugated populace by successfully transforming the “subjects' living bodies into political resources” (Kao :43). This has parallels with the policy used in the twentieth century passenger shipping here discussed.…”

Section: Disciplined Mobilities Hotel Geopolitics and The Emotionalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Disciplined Mobility and the Emotional Subject in Royal Dutch Lloyd's Early Twentieth Century Passenger Shipping Network

2014

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This paper examines the disciplined mobility and emotional geographies of “between‐deck” passengers in Royal Dutch Lloyd's early Twentieth Century passenger shipping network. Specifically, it is concerned with the ways in which the network was established and with the efforts made to maintain it. It is found that such a disciplinary network furthers the firm's goal of shipping healthy and productive bodies for corporate profits and that transhipment facility Lloyd Hotel in Amsterdam was integral to the performance and maintenance of such a transnational disciplinary network. The key consequence of such disciplined mobility was the creation of an emotional passenger‐migrant subject shaped in relation to the power of corporate, cultural and other authorities in maritime travel and migration. In identifying this historic network of disciplined mobility and its emotional subject, this paper seeks to reveal the emotional geographies relating to mobile subjectivities and the power relations associated with their historically significant travels.

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Section: Disciplined Mobilities Hotel Geopolitics and The Emotionalmentioning

confidence: 99%