Sexual Encounters

Wallace, Lee

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“…Porter (1990) develops a substantive account of differences between narratives of key voyagers who landed at Tahiti in the early period of encounters as part of his analysis of how the exotic came to define the erotic in Enlightenment thought; see alsoSalmond (2009) andWallace (2003) on the Pacific; for analysis that reaches beyond the Pacific, seeClark (2008).…”

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Navigating “Race” at Tahiti: Polynesian and European Encounters

Elliston

2023

Comp Stud Soc Hist

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In this article I analyze stories about the negotiation of European racialization ideologies in the Society Islands (Tahiti and its Islands) in the late eighteenth century. My focus is the disjunctures between European understandings of their encounters at Tahiti, and what Pacific scholars have come to understand of Polynesian understandings of themselves and various foreigners in that early period. In doing so, I draw out the ways sexuality and gender mediated, enabled, and were also constituted through such racialization processes in their cultural and historical specificity. A key point of departure for this analysis is that the embodiment of race is a negotiated social process. The comparative historical case study I offer up here follows current scholarly moves in seeking out the insights to be gained by tracking racialization as a contingent process, as open rather than closed, as variegated rather than singular, and as imperfectly and only tenuously wrought through ideologies that may be profoundly unanticipated from the vantage point of modernist logics of essentialism and foundationalism. The resulting analysis aims to create space for critically revisiting the ways in which racial normativities and racialized embodiment operate, and how they work, and fail to work, to promote naturalized racist hierarchies of privilege and subordination.

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Colonialism and sexuality

Meiu

2015

The International Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality

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Within colonialism, or the expansion and maintenance of the sovereignty of one group of people over another, sexuality has played an important role in the representation of the colonized Other, in the drawing and policing of racial, ethnic, and cultural boundaries, and in the ways in which colonial subjects produced livelihoods and imagined futures. Through sexual imaginaries, colonial actors constructed and contested arguments about race and culture, difference and sameness, superiority and inferiority, morality and indecency. By classifying the intimate desires and bodily pleasures of the colonized as “sex,” for example, colonials could prove that these deviated from bourgeois standards of morality and thus required their “enlightened” intervention and reform. The historical legacies of colonial sexual politics continue to shape the lived realities of postcolonial subjects in a variety of ways.

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Lehner,

Jones

2023

A Companion to Contemporary Art in a Global Framework

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Sexual Encounters

Cited by 75 publications

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Navigating “Race” at Tahiti: Polynesian and European Encounters

Navigating “Race” at Tahiti: Polynesian and European Encounters

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