Opondo's essay focuses on the theoretical stakes of the debates in Frederick Cooper's Citizenship between Empire and Nation and looks at how ethnological reason haunts the debates over how to govern different people differently while at the same time articulating the language of citizenship. The essay also engages a corollary to Cooper's elaborate treatment of the empirics of empire and the related empire of empirics by looking at the book's contribution to critical diplomatic theory.
The text of this article is only available as a PDF.
© 2017 by Duke University Press
2017
You do not currently have access to this content.