Overview
- Proposes a critical re-examination of resistance in colonial and anti-colonial thought
- Explores new ways of thinking about resistance and colonialism during the period of modern European imperialism in the light of renewed interest in resistance studies
- Chapters cover a range of case studies, from ‘hidden’ accounts using oral and written records, to local case studies and transnational perspectives
Part of the book series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies (CIPCSS)
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This volume offers a critical re-examination of colonial and anti-colonial resistance imageries and practices in imperial history. It offers a fresh critique of both pejorative and celebratory readings of ‘insurgent peoples’, and it seeks to revitalize the study of ‘resistance’ as an analytical field in the comparative history of Western colonialisms. It explores how to read and (de)code these issues in archival documents – and how to conjugate documental approaches with oral history, indigenous memories, and international histories of empire. The topics explored include runaway slaves and slave rebellions, mutiny and banditry, memories and practices of guerrilla and liberation, diplomatic negotiations and cross-border confrontations, theft, collaboration, and even the subversive effects of nature in colonial projects of labor exploitation.
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Hidden Accounts
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Local Encounters
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Transnational Processes
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Reviews
“This splendid collection leaps well ahead of cruder, binary understandings of resistance in the colonial context. By dint of its attention to oral, archival, and local sources it understands that resistance is always multifaceted, complex, and multi-purposed; that the metropolitan conceit that all the colonized can possibly think about is their colonizer, is wishful thinking. Do read this collection for its geographical breadth, its historical depth, and its sophistication.” (James C. Scott, Sterling Professor of Political Science and Anthropology, Yale University, USA)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Nuno Domingos is Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Lisbon, Portugal, and Associate Researcher at the SOAS Food Studies Centre, UK. He is author of Football and Colonialism: Body and Popular Culture in Urban Mozambique (2017).
Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. He is author of The ‘Civilizing Mission’ of Portuguese Colonialism (c.1870-1930) (2015).
Ricardo Roque is Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Lisbon, Portugal, and an Honorary Associate in the Department of History at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is author of Headhunting and Colonialism (2010).
Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. He is author of The ‘Civilizing Mission’ of Portuguese Colonialism (c.1870-1930) (2015).
Ricardo Roque is Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Lisbon, Portugal, and an Honorary Associate in the Department of History at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is author of Headhunting and Colonialism (2010).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Resistance and Colonialism
Book Subtitle: Insurgent Peoples in World History
Editors: Nuno Domingos, Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo, Ricardo Roque
Series Title: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19167-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-19166-5Published: 24 August 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-19169-6Published: 25 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-19167-2Published: 01 August 2019
Series ISSN: 2635-1633
Series E-ISSN: 2635-1641
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 347
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: Imperialism and Colonialism, World History, Global and Transnational History, Social History, Labor History