Imperialboomerangeffect

It shows that militarization is an effect of the imperial boomerang.” Police have brought imperial practices home in response to perceived racialized ...

2022年7月6日 — The imperial boomerang or Foucault's boomerang is the thesis that governments that develop repressive techniques to control colonial ...

In 1936, George Padmore, the Trinidadian Communist, described the colonies as “the breeding ground for the type of fascist mentality which is being let loose in ...

2020年6月9日 — Imperialism boomeranged back into the very sexual self-conception of white Europe. As Ann Laura Stoler has shown, white sexuality was partly ...

2013年2月14日 — Such 'boomerang effects' centred on ordering the life of populations at home and abroad – what Foucault called 'biopower' and 'biopolitics' – ...

The imperial boomerang effect would generate a modern domestic version in the Philippines, the most pertinent example of which is the ongoing 'war' on drugs ...

Native resisters to colonial occupation often learned to avoid direct military confrontation with Europeans. The absence of a clear enemy, in turn, often led ...

2020年6月18日 — The imperial boomerang teaches us that anti-racism cannot hope to confine itself to the domestic sphere, ignoring the predations of the imperial ...

2023年5月19日 — Political theorist Hannah Arendt, in The Origins of Totalitarianism, argued that racialisation and territorial expansion – two practices ...

The imperial boomerang or terrific boomerang (per Aimé Césaire), is the thesis that governments that develop repressive techniques to control colonial territories will eventually deploy those same techniques domestically against their own citizens.