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Italian ColonialismConstructing Italian Africa: Geography and Geopolitics

Italian Colonialism: Constructing Italian Africa: Geography and Geopolitics [In recent years the discipline of geography has undergone a thorough engagement with some of the murkier aspects of its histories. In particular, impelled by broader interdisciplinary poststructural and postcolonial initiatives, geographers have interrogated and exposed ever more of the entwined and entangled complicities between geographical knowledges and European imperialisms.1 Elements of this work found inspiration in Edward Said’s Orientalism, which not only reworked western understandings of the colonial encounter and its construction of colonial Others, but also recognized the profound roles of geographical knowledges within these complex and shifting matrices of power, culture, and knowledge.2 Indeed, when Said revisited these themes in Culture and Imperialism, he was still more explicit:Just as none of us is outside or beyond geography, none of us is completely free from the struggle over geography. That struggle is complex and interesting because it is not only about soldiers and cannons but also about ideas, about forms, about images and imaginings.3] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Italian ColonialismConstructing Italian Africa: Geography and Geopolitics

Part of the Italian and Italian American Studies Book Series
Editors: Ben-Ghiat, Ruth; Fuller, Mia
Atkinson, David
Italian Colonialism — Feb 16, 2016
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Palgrave Macmillan US
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© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2005
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978-0-230-60636-4
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15 –26
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10.1007/978-1-4039-8158-5_2
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Abstract

[In recent years the discipline of geography has undergone a thorough engagement with some of the murkier aspects of its histories. In particular, impelled by broader interdisciplinary poststructural and postcolonial initiatives, geographers have interrogated and exposed ever more of the entwined and entangled complicities between geographical knowledges and European imperialisms.1 Elements of this work found inspiration in Edward Said’s Orientalism, which not only reworked western understandings of the colonial encounter and its construction of colonial Others, but also recognized the profound roles of geographical knowledges within these complex and shifting matrices of power, culture, and knowledge.2 Indeed, when Said revisited these themes in Culture and Imperialism, he was still more explicit:Just as none of us is outside or beyond geography, none of us is completely free from the struggle over geography. That struggle is complex and interesting because it is not only about soldiers and cannons but also about ideas, about forms, about images and imaginings.3]

Published: Feb 16, 2016

Keywords: Geographical Knowledge; Colonial Authority; Overseas Territory; Racial Science; Italian Expansionism

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