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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. & SOCIOLOGY EMPIRE Th e Imperial Entanglements of a Discipline edited by george steinmetz Duke University Press · Durham and London · 2013 © 2013 Duke University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid- free paper ∞ Designed by Courtney Baker. Typeset in 10.8/14 Arno Pro by Westchester Publishing Ser vices. Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data 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
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