Book ID: CBB001201107

In the Shadows of the Tropics: Climate, Race and Biopower in Nineteenth Century Ceylon (2007)

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Duncan, James S. (Author)


Ashgate


Publication Date: 2007
Physical Details: xvi + 212 pp.; ill.; maps; bibl.; index
Language: English

n this original work James Duncan explores the transformation of Ceylon during the mid-nineteenth century into one of the most important coffee growing regions of the world and investigates the consequent ecological disaster which erased coffee from the island. Using this fascinating case study by way of illustration, In the Shadows of the Tropics reveals the spatial unevenness and fragmentation of modernity through a focus on modern governmentality and biopower. It argues that the practices of colonial power, and the differences that race and tropical climates were thought to make, were central to the working out of modern governmental rationalities. In this context, the usefulness of Foucault's notions of biopower, discipline and governmentality are examined. The work contributes an important rural focus to current work on studies of governmentality in geography and offers a welcome non-state dimension by considering the role of the plantation economy and individual capitalists in the lives and deaths of labourers, the destabilization of subsistence farming and the aggressive re-territorialization of populations from India to Ceylon.

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Authors & Contributors
Lambruschini, Raffaello
Gabbrielli, Veronica
Franco Sotte
Theodoridis, Dimitrios
Alexander Moutchnik
Neil Clayton
Concepts
Agriculture
Science and politics
Agricultural economics
Biopolitics
Science and government
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
20th century, early
21st century
20th century, late
Places
Italy
Tuscany (Italy)
England
Sri Lanka
United States
Spain
Institutions
United States. Department of Agriculture
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