Punishment in Paradise: Race, Slavery, Human Rights, and a Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Penal Colony
Peter M. Beattie is Associate Professor of History at Michigan State University. He is the author of
Fernando de Noronha’s “Dark Twins”: Licit and Illicit Commerce
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Published:February 2015
2015. "Fernando de Noronha’s “Dark Twins”: Licit and Illicit Commerce", Punishment in Paradise: Race, Slavery, Human Rights, and a Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Penal Colony, Peter M. Beattie
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Chapter 3 utilizes insights from James Scott’s Seeing Like a State, where he analyzes modern state projects and institutions that planned communities for generic citizens, but these could only function with the simultaneous development of unplanned-for “dark twins.” Thus, the planned city of Brasília only functions because of its unplanned-for satellite cities where most of the laborers essential for its upkeep live. The chapter contends that contraband and licit commerce are the unplanned-for dark twins of planned prisons and penal colonies, proving essential to the planned penal colony’s everyday functions and linked to other limited incentives commanders had to...
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