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Off-Centered States: Political Formation and Deformation in the Andes

Haunting the Modern Andean State: Colonial Legacies of Race and Civilization

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Silverblatt, I
2015

Contemporary Andean polities are haunted by colonial legacies. Looking at state-making from the off-centered view-point of emerging colonial institutions helps make sense of the trajectory of horrors and irrationalities – as well as idioms of political legitimacy and justice – that have profoundly marked modern Andean life. European state-making was chained to imperial endeavors and Spanish political ideologies, like those of Spain’s early modern competitors, reflect modernity’s beginnings in this dialectic of state-making and colonialism. My essay explores how colonial apparatuses of statecraft, washed in the dictates of imperial control, made race-thinking – and the imperatives of “civilization” – part of the body politic. And, while this essay can be suggestive at best, I hope it pushes us to ask why – and how – these beginnings have not been central to our perceptions of modern experience or modern states

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2015

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University of Pennsylvania Press
 

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Silverblatt, I. (2015). Haunting the Modern Andean State: Colonial Legacies of Race and Civilization. In C. Krupa & D. Nugent (Eds.), Off-Centered States: Political Formation and Deformation in the Andes. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Silverblatt, I. “Haunting the Modern Andean State: Colonial Legacies of Race and Civilization.” In Off-Centered States: Political Formation and Deformation in the Andes, edited by C. Krupa and D. Nugent. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015.
Silverblatt I. Haunting the Modern Andean State: Colonial Legacies of Race and Civilization. In: Krupa C, Nugent D, editors. Off-Centered States: Political Formation and Deformation in the Andes. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press; 2015.
Silverblatt, I. “Haunting the Modern Andean State: Colonial Legacies of Race and Civilization.” Off-Centered States: Political Formation and Deformation in the Andes, edited by C. Krupa and D. Nugent, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015.
Silverblatt I. Haunting the Modern Andean State: Colonial Legacies of Race and Civilization. In: Krupa C, Nugent D, editors. Off-Centered States: Political Formation and Deformation in the Andes. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press; 2015.

Publication Date

2015

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania Press