ISBN:
9781786613769
,
9781786613776
Language:
English
Pages:
xviii, 312 Seiten
Series Statement:
Reinventing critical theory
Uniform Title:
Hybris del punto cero
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Castro-Gómez, Santiago, 1958- Zero-point hubris
DDC:
305.8009861
Keywords:
Ethnology History
;
Enlightenment History
;
Science History
;
Race discrimination History
;
Colombia Intellectual life
;
Colombia Civilization
;
Colombia Social life and customs
;
Lateinamerika
;
Kolumbien
;
Kolonialismus
;
Wissenschaft
;
1750-1816
Abstract:
Introduction -- Places of enlightenment : colonial discourse and the geopolitics of knowledge in the Age of Enlightenment -- Purus ab omnia Macula Sanguinis : the apparatus of whiteness in New Granada -- Imperial biopolitics : health and disease under the Bourbon reforms -- Illegitimate knowledges : the Enlightenment as apparatus of epistemic expropriation -- Striated spaces : geography, territorial politics, and population control -- Epilogue.
Abstract:
"Castro-Gómez argues that in the colonial periphery of the Spanish Americas, Enlightenment constituted not only the position of epistemic distance separating science from all other knowledges, but also the position of ethnic distance separating the criollos from the 'castes'. Epistemic violence-and not only physical violence-is thereby found at the very origin of Colombian nationality"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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