Of scales, networks and assemblages: the League of Nations apparatus and the scalar sovereignty of the Government of India
Of scales, networks and assemblages: the League of Nations apparatus and the scalar sovereignty of the Government of India
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规模、网络和组合：国际联盟机构和印度政府的规模主权
DOI：
10.1111/j.1475-5661.2009.00338.x
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发表时间：
2009
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Stephen Legg
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作者：
Stephen Legg
虽然高度重视最近的批评垂直想象和物化的本体论的规模理论，网络理论的不受约束的流动，本文反对人文地理学没有规模。相反，从理论文献中的四个命题被用来提供一个工具包来分析标量政治的实际谈判，即：规模应被视为效果，而不是框架或结构，实践;网络必须考虑到其所有的复杂性和异质性;网络可以被解释为组装，更多的re-territorialising和re-scaling可以被分析为装置;国家机器努力创造这样一种印象，即规模是非历史的、等级分明的，具有排他性的关系。这些命题被用来探讨一段历史时期，当时世界的标量宪法正处于激烈的辩论之中。两次世界大战之间的时期，帝国规模与国际规模发生了冲突，这既是意识形态世界观，也是一系列相互作用的制度。国际主义和帝国主义的集合体分别由国际联盟和印度殖民政府等机构体现。该联盟试图鼓励废除容忍的妓院，以减少贩卖妇女和儿童的行为，这导致了1920年代和1930年代之间关于什么是国际和“国内”合法领域的激烈辩论。这些明确的等级辩论是联盟网络的产物，这些网络威胁到了拉吉的等级主权，最直接的是通过1931年调查东部贩卖妇女和儿童问题的巡回委员会。
Whilst greatly valuing recent critiques of the vertical imaginary and reified ontology of scale theory, and of the unfettered flows of network theory, this paper argues against a human geography without scale. Rather, four propositions from the theoretical literature are used to provide a tool-kit to analyse the practical negotiation of scalar politics, namely that: scales should be considered as effects, not frames or structures, of practice; networks must be considered in all their complexity and heterogeneity; networks can be interpreted as assemblages, the more re-territorialising and re-scaling of which can be analysed as apparatuses; and that state apparatuses work to create the impression that scales are ahistorical, hierarchical and possess exclusive relationships. These propositions are used to explore a period of history when the scalar constitution of the world was under intense debate. The interwar era saw the imperial scale clash with that of the international, both as ideological worldviews, and as a series of interacting institutions. The assemblages of internationalism and imperialism were embodied by apparatuses such as the League of Nations and the colonial Government of India respectively. Attempts by the League to encourage the abolition of tolerated brothels in an attempt to reduce the trafficking of women and children led to intense debates between the 1920s and 1930s over what constituted the legitimate domains of the international and the ‘domestic’. These explicitly scalar debates were the product of League networks that threatened the scalar sovereignty of the Raj, most directly through the travelling Commission of Enquiry into Traffic in Women and Children in the East in 1931.