Settlers, Liberty, and Empire

Yirush, Craig

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“…Soto's labor-claim to property was repeated by Locke; Mercado's egoistic theory was repeated by Adam Smith. Locke's definition of property, which became the cornerstone of the British colonial claims to right, 169 was echoed in 1721 by Jeremiah Dummer, who wrote that the Crown "neither did nor could grant the Soil, having no Right in it self." Rather, the colonists had superior claim to the soil because they had improved it by their labor: "The Land it self was .…”

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A Foucauldian Study of Spanish Colonialism

Slack

2018

The Latin Americanist

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This article studies sixteenth‐century Spanish colonialism solely through the lens of Foucauldian thought, using his method of genealogy to return to the debate over the indigenous' capacity for reason, and his method of archeology to assess the positive systems of law and economics, particularly the law of nations, that were formulated in response to the problems of conquest and settlement. It also offers an alternative to Foucault's own history of raison d'État, showing that its foundations of Christian pastoral discipline, police, and diplomacy, rather than rising in opposition to the Spanish Crown and the Church, defined Spain's colonial order.

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A Foucauldian Study of Spanish Colonialism

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2018

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Independence

Walker

2014

The Encyclopedia of Political Thought

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In its most basic conceptual sense independence refers to a relation between two entities, which is defined by a lack of influence of each on the other. We say, for example, that x is independent of y if y does not bear on or affect x . Politically speaking, independence belongs to a family of terms –emancipation, freedom, liberty, liberation, self‐determination, sovereignty, and autonomy – which make normative and descriptive assertions about the way power operates on and through a given entity. For this reason, in its political use independence connotes a hierarchical ordering of entities, and, significantly, a challenge to the domination imposed by such an ordering. The identified terms – emancipation, freedom, liberty, liberation, self‐determination, sovereignty, and autonomy – can be mapped along a spectrum of relationality; at one end terms such as emancipation and liberation are highly relational speaking of a connection or a rejection of a connection between two entities. Hence, for example, in the American Civil War, blacks were emancipated from a relationship to slave owners. At the other end of this continuum, terms such as sovereignty and self‐determination are less relational, articulating the nature of the power that a given entity has in and of itself. Along this line, independence has a stronger relational significance than autonomy and self‐determination on the one hand, and on the other hand may be used in a way that involves less specified relationality than terms such as emancipation and liberation.

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Indigenous Political Thought

Grande¹,

Nichols²

2014

The Encyclopedia of Political Thought

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For the purposes of this entry, “Indigenous peoples” refers to those societies which exercised powers of self‐governance prior to colonization by and incorporation into the modern nation‐state and who continue to experience and resist this as unjust. Such peoples are, thus, distinct from ethnic or other minority groups in that the primary issue framing Indigenous–settler state relations is “not racist exclusion … but forced incorporation into the state.” The continued structure of imposed rule expresses itself as settler colonialism; distinguished from other forms of colonialism by the intended permanent settlement of foreign peoples and, thus, access to Indigenous land in perpetuity. Consequently, it has been argued, settler colonialism is “first and foremost a territorial project” where land (as opposed to natural or human resources) is the precondition.

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Settlers, Liberty, and Empire

Cited by 80 publications

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A Foucauldian Study of Spanish Colonialism

A Foucauldian Study of Spanish Colonialism

Independence

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