Sociology and Empire: The Imperial Entanglements of a Discipline

627 Pages·2013·3.577 MB·English

by  George Steinmetz (ed.)

SOCIOLOGY & EMPIRE
POLITICS, HISTORY, AND CULTURE
A series from the International Institute at the University of Michigan
SERIES EDITORS
George Steinmetz and Julia Adams
SERIES EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD
Fernando Coronil Nancy Rose Hunt Julie Skurski
Mamadou Diouf Andreas Kalyvas Margaret Somers
Michael Dutton Webb Keane Ann Laura Stoler
Geoff Eley David Laitin Katherine Verdery
Fatma Müge Göcek Lydia Liu Elizabeth Wingrove
Sponsored by the International Institute at the University of Michigan and published by
Duke University Press, this series is centered around cultural and historical studies of power,
politics, and the state— a fi eld that cuts across the disciplines of history, sociology, anthropol-
ogy, po liti cal science, and cultural studies. Th e focus on the relationship between state and
culture refers both to a methodological approach—t he study of politics and the state using
culturalist methods—a nd a substantive one that treats signifying practices as an essential
dimension of politics. Th e dialectic of politics, culture, and history fi gures prominently in
all the books selected for the series.
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SOCIOLOGY EMPIRE
Th e Imperial Entanglements of a Discipline
edited by george steinmetz
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Sociology and empire : the imperial entanglements of a discipline / George
Steinmetz, ed.
pages cm — (Politics, history, and culture)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
isbn 978-0 - 8223- 5258- 7 (cloth : alk. paper) —
isbn 978- 0- 8223- 5279- 2 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Imperialism. 2. Sociology. I. Steinmetz, George, 1957– II. Series: Politics,
history, and culture.
jc359.S693 2013
306.2—dc23
2013005287
Contents
Preface ix
One · Major Contributions to So cio log i cal Th eory
and Research on Empire, 1830s– Present
george steinmetz
1
part i
NATIONAL SO CIO LOG I CAL FIELDS & THE STUDY OF EMPIRE
Two · Rus sian Sociology in Imperial Context
alexander semyonov, marina mogilner,
and ilya gerasimov
53
Th ree · Sociology’s Imperial Unconscious
Th e Emergence of American Sociology in the Context of Empire
julian go
83
Four · Empire for the Poor
Imperial Dreams and the Quest for an Italian Sociology, 1870s– 1950s
marco santoro
106
Five · German Sociology and Empire
From Internal Colonization to Overseas Colonization and Back Again
andrew zimmerman
166
Six · Th e Durkheimian School and Colonialism
Exploring the Constitutive Paradox
fuyuki kurasawa
188
part ii
CURRENT SO CIO LOG I CAL THEORIES OF EMPIRE
Seven · Th e Recent Intensifi cation of
American Economic and Military Imperialism
Are Th ey Connected?
michael mann
213
Eight · Th e Empire’s New Laws
Terrorism and the New Security Empire aft er 9/11
kim lane scheppele
245
Nine · Empires and Nations
Convergence or Divergence?
krishan kumar
279
Ten · Th e New Surgical Colonialism
China, Africa, and Oil
albert j. bergesen
300
part iii
HISTORICAL STUDIES OF COLONIALISM & EMPIRE
Eleven · Nation and Empire in the French Context
emmanuelle saada
321
Twelve · Empire and Developmentalism in Colonial India
chandan gowda
340
Th irteen · Building the Cities of Empire
Urban Planning in the Colonial Cities of Italy’s Fascist Empire
besnik pula
366
Fourteen · Japa nese Colonial Structure in Korea in Comparative Perspective
ou- byung chae
396
Fift een · Native Policy and Colonial State
Formation in Pondicherry (India) and Vietnam
Recasting Ethnic Relations, 1870s– 1920s
anne raffin
415
Sixteen · Th e Constitution of State/Space and the
Limits of “Autonomy” in South Africa and Palestine/Israel
andy clarno
436
Seventeen · Re sis tance and the Contradictory Rationalities of
State Formation in British Malaya and the American Philippines
daniel p. s. goh
465
Conclusion
Understanding Empire
raewyn connell
489
Bibliography 499 List of Contributors 575 Index 581
Preface
Th e idea for this collection began to emerge during the 1990s, when I
started working on the connections between ethnographic discourse and
German colonial policy. At that time, colonialism and empires w ere cen-
tral topics of discussion in the weekly workshop I ran with David Laitin at
the University of Chicago and in the book series David and I edited to-
gether.1 One notable feature of that workshop and book series, however,
was that almost none of the scholars working on imperial topics came from
sociology. I started to supervise sociology PhD dissertations on imperial
topics during the early 1990s, but most of the theoretical and empirical ref-
erences in these theses came from anthropology and history, and to a lesser
extent from pol itic al science, geography, literary criticism, and cultural
studies. It seemed that there was almost no disciplinary memory of earlier
soc iol ogi c al work on imperial themes. Scholars of colonialism who had
described themselves as sociologists— including Richard Th urnwald, René
Maunier, Jacques Berque, Georges Balandier, Albert Memmi, Roger Bas-
tide, St. Clair Drake, Peter Worsley, and Clyde Mitchell—h ad been written
out of the fi eld or re categorized as anthropologists or area specialists.2
Th ere was little awareness in sociology, outside a few specialized depart-
ments, of colonial research by people who had always been identifi ed with
sociology, such as E. A. Ross, Albert G. Keller, Robert Michels, E. Franklin
Frazier, Pierre Bourdieu, or Anouar Abdel-M alek (who edited Sociology of
Imperialism; Abdel-M alek 1971). Immanuel Wallerstein was known for
world- system theory but not for his earlier work on colonial Africa.3