- India, History of Colonial India, History of India, Postcolonial Studies, Colonialism, History of the British Empire, and 17 moreBritish Empire, Obscenity, Censorship, Censorship (History), Print Culture, Book History and the History of Reading, Cultural Imperialism, Violence, Sexual Violence, Gender Studies, Michel Foucault, Governmentality, Sovereignty, Biopower and Biopolitics, Australia, Australian History, Globalization, and Cultural Globalizationedit
- I am rather a global vagabond; I was raised in both the U.K. and U.S. and received my Ph.D. from the University of Ca... moreI am rather a global vagabond; I was raised in both the U.K. and U.S. and received my Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. I thereafter taught at institutions in the U.S., Ireland and Canada, and held research fellowships in India and Australia. I have also traveled widely. I joined the University of Liverpool in 2013 and am happy to have found a place in which I am keen to stay put. I speak Hindi and am a lover of most things Indian - especially Indian food, clothing (the louder the better) and Indian cinema (especially old films from the '50s and '60s).edit
Purifying Empire draws on the theory of governmentality (a form of power that, operating through various forms of surveillance, aims to inculcate certain behavioural norms in order to make individuals transform themselves in an ‘improving... more
Purifying Empire draws on the theory of governmentality (a form of power that, operating through various forms of surveillance, aims to inculcate certain behavioural norms in order to make individuals transform themselves in an ‘improving direction’) to chart how the drive to regulate ‘obscenity’ in late nineteenth-century Britain was transformed from a national into a global and imperial project and then appropriated in two different colonial contexts, India and Australia, to serve decidedly different ends.
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This is a resource for teaching and research on colonial violence. It also attempts to re-assess the nature of colonial violence. It is forthcoming in Jonathan Hogg (ed.), Using Primary Sources: a practical guide for students... more
This is a resource for teaching and research on colonial violence. It also attempts to re-assess the nature of colonial violence. It is forthcoming in
Jonathan Hogg (ed.), Using Primary Sources: a practical guide for
students (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press
Jonathan Hogg (ed.), Using Primary Sources: a practical guide for
students (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press
