What's Love Got to Do with It?
2001; Oxford University Press; Volume: 88; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/2700386
ISSN1945-2314
Autores Tópico(s)Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics
ResumoTo the popular singer Tina Turner's bittersweet song that repeatedly asks, “What's love got to do with it?,” Ann Laura Stoler would surely reply, “Everything, girl.” No secondhand emotions here. For in the workings of the intimate domain, through sentimental education, through child rearing, and through sex, Stoler sees the making of race, the management of empire, and the congruence of imperial projects about the globe. Stoler's stunning essay forces our gaze to the politics of intimacy, to those spaces and places in Asia, Africa, and the Americas where “colonial regimes of truth were imposed, worked around, and worked out.”1 Her provocations to comparative historical work, to frames of analysis that move beyond nation-states, to circuits of knowledge production and circulation that tie core and periphery, metropole and colony as one, are of great import. Stoler and her interlocutors ask us to see as commensurate colonial projects that might otherwise escape notice as exceptional and unique.
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