Colonial Imaginaries and Postcolonial Transformations: exiles, bases, beaches
Colonial Imaginaries and Postcolonial Transformations: exiles, bases, beaches
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殖民想象与后殖民转型：流亡者、基地、海滩
DOI：
10.1080/01436597.2010.538239
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发表时间：
2010
影响因子：
2
通讯作者：
Rorden Wilkinson
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作者：
U. Kothari;Rorden Wilkinson
摘要本文借鉴爱德华·赛义德的“想象地理”概念，探讨小岛屿国家的代表如何使特定的殖民干预发生在印度洋地区，并显示这些代表目前正在重新设计，以支持发展战略。它探讨了特定的殖民地政府如何证明和合法化的空间和时间延长的交易，然后集中在两个例子，强迫人口流动：英国殖民政策，强行驱逐反殖民民族主义者和政治'uniterables'从帝国的其他部分塞舌尔;和使用该地区的岛屿作为战略军事基地，需要强制迁移人口。虽然殖民遗产渗透到这些社会的当代表现中，但这种排斥并不是一成不变的，而是可以并且正在通过各种形式的情境代理被挪用和改造。因此，“岛屿想象”已成为小岛屿国家重要的文化和经济资源，特别是在旅游业的发展中。脆弱的周边国家面临的主要挑战是创造新的代表形式，以对抗和取代顽固的殖民主义防御，为可持续发展提供更多机会。
Abstract This article draws on Edward Said's notion of ‘imaginary geographies’ to explore how representations of small island states enabled particular colonial interventions to take place in the Indian Ocean region and to show how these representations are currently being reworked to support development strategies. It examines how particular colonial imaginaries justified and legitimised spatially and temporally extended transactions before focusing on two examples of forced population movements: British colonial policy of forcibly exiling anti-colonial nationalists and political ‘undesirables’ from other parts of the empire to Seychelles; and the use of islands in the region as strategic military bases, requiring the compulsory relocation of populations. While a colonising legacy pervades contemporary representations of these societies, such depictions are not immutable but can be, and are being, appropriated and reworked through various forms of situated agency. Thus an ‘island imaginary’ has become an important cultural and economic resource for small island states, most notably in the development of a tourist industry. The key challenge for vulnerable peripheral states is to create new forms of representations that contest and replace tenacious colonialist depictions to provide greater opportunities for sustained development.