Buch

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Übersicht

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Verlag	:	Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Buchreihe	:	Cultural Identity Studies (Bd. 6)
Sprache	:	Englisch
Erschienen	:	14. 08. 2007
Seiten	:	265
Einband	:	Kartoniert
Höhe	:	150 mm
Breite	:	220 mm
Gewicht	:	400 g
ISBN	:	9783039110605
Sprache	:	Englisch

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Autorinformation

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The Author: Robbie Aitken graduated from the University of St Andrews, Scotland before gaining a doctorate in German Studies from the University of Liverpool in 2002. He is currently a Research Fellow in the German Department at the University of Liverpool.

Produktinformation

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This book sets out to examine the internal workings of a colonial settler society drawing on aspects of post-colonial theory and whiteness studies. It focuses on the construction of a hierarchical social order in German Southwest Africa in the period 1884-1914. In doing so it explores the historical creation of categories of race and the construction of a concept of whiteness within white settler society in Germany’s foremost settler colony. In the colonial environment the presence of some settlers was deemed to be more desirable than others. As a consequence policies of exclusion and racial rhetoric were employed to exclude undesirable settlers from white society. What emerged was a pioneer society in which undesirable settlers were socially, politically and economically excluded whilst desirable settlers sought to forge a racially and culturally exclusive utopia. Based on extensive archival material from the Bundesarchiv in Berlin as well as a wide range of printed sources, the book presents an insight into strategies of social control, power, the establishment of social privilege and constructions of whiteness in a settler society.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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Deine Buchhandlung

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