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Topologies of Colonial States: History, Anthropology, Archaeology Topologies of Colonial States: History, Anthropology, Archaeology
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Peanut Transitions: Senegambia from Legitimate Commerce to Colonization Peanut Transitions: Senegambia from Legitimate Commerce to Colonization
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Anatomizing Colonial Statecraft: Logics and Aesthetics of Rule in Siin Anatomizing Colonial Statecraft: Logics and Aesthetics of Rule in Siin
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The Geography of Imagination: Tradition as Biopolitics The Geography of Imagination: Tradition as Biopolitics
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An Archaeology of Ethnography: Re-excavating the Archetypal Peasant in Siin An Archaeology of Ethnography: Re-excavating the Archetypal Peasant in Siin
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Conclusion: Entangled Sovereignties Conclusion: Entangled Sovereignties
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Seven Hesitant Sovereignties: Logics, Logistics, and Aesthetics of French Rule
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Published:September 2018
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Chapter 7 revisits the problems of colonialism and the colonial state by analyzing the brittle foundations of French power in rural Senegal and the deeply contested history of colonial rule in the Siin. Picking up on the discussion of state forms and political landscape begun in earlier chapters, it argues that rural milieus offer clues about the materiality of colonial rule, more specifically, about the logics of colonial government, and the conduits and channels through which French officials sought to manage colonized subjects. Peanut cash cropping is important to this story, and the material networks of commerce, habits, monetization and debt/credit it set in motion developed into central vectors of colonial transformation. The apparatus of peanut imperialism unfolded side-by-side with the development of colonial forms of knowledge designed to assist the subjection of Africans. Here, however, and in tandem with colonial ethnographies, rural assemblages also hint at the anxieties and epistemic confusion inhabiting the early days of colonial rule, as well as obstacles to its implementation. Siin’s colonial countryside thus emerges as a hesitant and nervous geography of power, whose outcomes were disputed, partial, and not quite foreseeable.
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