Writing politics back into history

History and Theory

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 384-395

  Chekuri, Christopher ^a  

^a SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 61149458837     PISSN: 00182656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2303.2007.00416.x     Document Type: Review

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7. T. Mitchell, "The Stage of Modernity," in Questions of Modernity, ed. T. Mitchell (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000), 2.
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9. V. Oldenburg, Dowry Murder: The Imperial Origins of a Cultural Crime (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002).
10. W. Brown, Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006), 153. Once dethroned, such identities come back as optional choices of the individual's behavior. Brown calls this "excessive freighting of the individual" or the "saturation of the individual."
11. Mitchell, Modernity, 3.
12. A. Stoler, Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002), 112.
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