克莱尔·安德森(Clare Anderson)对帝国和国家的历史进行了全新的解读,表明惩罚的历史不仅与监狱和监狱的出现有关,还与治理、占领和全球联系的历史有关。在五个世纪的时间里,她探索了岛屿、殖民地、偏远内陆和边境地区的惩罚性流动,提出了惩罚、治理、镇压与国家和帝国建设之间的密切而持久的联系,并揭示了国家、皇权和贸易公司如何利用罪犯来满足各种地缘政治和社会野心。惩罚性流动与包括奴役在内的其他形式的劳工奴役交织在一起,罪犯是可以用来占领领土的非自由劳工的主要来源。然而,罪犯并不是被动的主体,而是以各种形式表现其能动性,包括政治意识形态的延伸和文化转移,以及对当代知识生产的重要贡献。
Convicts: A Global History by Clare Anderson
Clare Anderson provides a radical new reading of histories of empire and nation, showing that the history of punishment is not connected solely to the emergence of prisons and penitentiaries, but to histories of governance, occupation, and global connections across the world. Exploring punitive mobility to islands, colonies, and remote inland and border regions over a period of five centuries, she proposes a close and enduring connection between punishment, governance, repression, and nation and empire building, and reveals how states, imperial powers, and trading companies used convicts to satisfy various geo-political and social ambitions. Punitive mobility became intertwined with other forms of labour bondage, including enslavement, with convicts a key source of unfree labour that could be used to occupy territories. Far from passive subjects, however, convicts manifested their agency in various forms, including the extension of political ideology and cultural transfer, and vital contributions to contemporary knowledge production.
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