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Purifying empire : obscenity and the politics of moral regulation in Britain, India and Australia /

"Purifying Empire explores the material, cultural and moral fragmentation of the boundaries of imperial and colonial rule in the British Empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It charts how a particular bio-political project, namely the drive to regulate the obscene in lat...

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書誌詳細
第一著者: Heath, Deana
フォーマット: Printed Book
言語:English
出版事項: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010
主題:
オンライン・アクセス:http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1005/2010002814-b.html
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1005/2010002814-d.html
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1005/2010002814-t.html
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=31064
目次:
  • Introduction: books, boundaries and Britishness
  • 1. Colonialism and governmentality
  • 2. From sovereignty to governmentality : the emergence of obscenity regulation as a biopolitical project in Britain
  • 3. Globalizing the local : imperial hygiene and the regulation of the obscene
  • 4. Localizing the global in settler societies : regulating the obscene in Australia
  • 5. Localizing the global in exploitation colonies : regulating the obscene in India
  • Conclusion : retangling empire, nation, colony and globe.