... comparative empires imperialism anticolonial nationalism decolonization ...

... Yi Kwangsu comparative empires colonial intimacy colonial desire imperial subject assimilation ...

..., colonial occupation, settlement, and exploitation across the Indian Ocean helps reveal both the reach and the limits of empire, and the Indian Ocean lends itself to the study of comparative empires. This chapter also examines anticolonial nationalism, decolonization, and the new set of contingent...

... proximate neighbors is used as a case study to propose the need for a more nuanced perspective on comparative empires and the problem of colonial modernity. This chapter proposes to consider what it calls the “shared but disavowed” history of colonial modernity as the experience of modernity under colonial...

... to postcolonial challenges of regional cooperation and big power ambitions today. More broadly, colonial occupation, settlement, and exploitation across the Indian Ocean helps reveal both the reach and the limits of empire, and the Indian Ocean lends itself to the study of comparative empires. This chapter also...

... This chapter takes the post-9/11 resurfacing and overdetermination of “imperialism” as a moment to identify and question the assumptions that inform comparisons and commensurabilities of imperial practices. What counts as imperial in these evocations of empire, and how are they to be compared...

... is irrelevant compared to the greater task of unraveling his various schemes. Such analysis provides insight into the postemancipation Americas, the intricacies of US-Dominican international relations, the rise of US empire in Latin America, and the history of Black US foreign service agents and Black...

..., and how are they to be compared? It argues that for too long (post) colonial studies has held a myopic understanding of empire that sidelines and treats as “exceptional” a range of imperial formations and practices that could instead be considered exemplary. Here, the political history of “American...

... in a classified collection of annotated “pictures.” This watershed in mapping and data management dates to 1460, when officials in Venice decreed that accurate knowledge of place for the entire empire should be handily available in drawings for those with decision-making authority in the metropole. The essay...

... of the methodological as well as conceptual limits of surveillance studies, we briefly compare surveillance studies to policing studies, security studies, and intelligence studies. After raising these questions about the direction of surveillance studies and the “research methods gap” therein, we turn to a discussion...

... of the feminist movement that is actively involved in the surveillance and deviant construction of clients: anti-prostitution advocates. The chapter focuses on the prohibitionist group, Prostitution Research and Education (PRE) to analyze how its empirical reports participate in surveillant logics, reify clients...

... to track: Martí and Rizal, writing in Spanish on behalf of the modern Cuban and Philippine nations during the twilight of the Spanish empire, and James and Roberts, writing as English-speaking West Indies nationalists a half century later in the context of postwar decolonization. The essay focuses...

... and qualitative geospatial data about its territorial holdings and visualize them in a classified collection of annotated “pictures.” This watershed in mapping and data management dates to 1460, when officials in Venice decreed that accurate knowledge of place for the entire empire should be handily available...

...Militarism, Empire, and War<subtitle>The Security State and States of Insecurity</subtitle> This essay examines the devolution of immigrant detention and deportation efforts domestically and internationally. It addresses the outsourcing of detention operations to surrogate jailers and the use...

...Detours and Returns This chapter offers an overview of Stuart Hall’s approach to diaspora, placing the emphasis on his conjunctural analysis of the “ethnic signifier” as it is articulated in different social formations, such as postindependence Jamaica and post-Empire Britain. It is argued...

... comparative Latino/a studies ...

... targeting along the borders of U.S. imperial cartography. While doing so reveals how the raciality of the war on terror is produced through visual technologies, the essay concludes by speculating briefly on how a counterarchive might enable us to see otherwise. comparative racialization drone wars...