Lisa Lowe is Samuel Knight Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Race, and Migration at Yale University. Prior to joining Yale, she taught at the University of California, San Diego and Tufts University. She began as a scholar of comparative literature, and her work has focused on literatures and cultures of encounter that emerge from histories of colonialism, immigration, capitalism, and globalization. She is known especially for work on French and British colonialisms and postcolonial literature, Asian immigration and Asian American studies, race and liberalism, and comparative global humanities.
发表于2024-11-05
The Intimacies of Four Continents 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
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In this uniquely interdisciplinary work, Lisa Lowe examines the relationships between Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth- centuries, exploring the links between colonialism, slavery, imperial trades and Western liberalism. Reading across archives, canons, and continents, Lowe connects the liberal narrative of freedom overcoming slavery to the expansion of Anglo-American empire, observing that abstract promises of freedom often obscure their embeddedness within colonial conditions. Race and social difference, Lowe contends, are enduring remainders of colonial processes through which “the human” is universalized and “freed” by liberal forms, while the peoples who create the conditions of possibility for that freedom are assimilated or forgotten. Analyzing the archive of liberalism alongside the colonial state archives from which it has been separated, Lowe offers new methods for interpreting the past, examining events well documented in archives, and those matters absent, whether actively suppressed or merely deemed insignificant. Lowe invents a mode of reading intimately, which defies accepted national boundaries and disrupts given chronologies, complicating our conceptions of history, politics, economics, and culture, and ultimately, knowledge itself.
其实历史学家早都说过了
评分虽然宏观叙述有bug但越来越喜欢以全球角度写历史的~liberal humanism真是无力吐槽了用俗话就是打着人道主义的光环干着苟且并装逼的勾当~但我也迷糊了 不知道这个yet to come的future到底该是什么样的 虽然没有提供该怎样的路径 但有理有据的说出来不该怎样也算添砖加瓦了吧~Lisa Lowe神坛光环不减
评分其实历史学家早都说过了
评分通过对帝国殖民史(主要来源是英帝国档案)的考察,指出自由主义和殖民主义之间看似矛盾实则内在勾连紧密的关系。西欧追求的自由理性的另一面是亚非地区人民的“下等”和被奴役。印象深刻的例子包括洛克的“自然状态”和对私有财产权的论述影射的是“新世界”的印第安人,密尔的“自由”建立在公民教育和集体社会之上而某些地区的人民显然是“未准备好的”因而只能处于从属地位(很好奇此处作者援引的葛兰西的subaltern概念的具体内涵),殖民地的“人”的分层所形成的“种族”概念,还有19世纪从奴隶制到强制雇佣劳动的政策转化。这些都特别好。只是整本书冗言略多。
评分虽然宏观叙述有bug但越来越喜欢以全球角度写历史的~liberal humanism真是无力吐槽了用俗话就是打着人道主义的光环干着苟且并装逼的勾当~但我也迷糊了 不知道这个yet to come的future到底该是什么样的 虽然没有提供该怎样的路径 但有理有据的说出来不该怎样也算添砖加瓦了吧~Lisa Lowe神坛光环不减
The Intimacies of Four Continents 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书