Imperial Debris: Reflections on Ruins and Ruination
Imperial Debris: Reflections on Ruins and Ruination
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帝国残骸：对废墟和毁灭的反思
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2008
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A. Stoler
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在这篇文章中，我着眼于“帝国的形成”而不是帝国本身，以记录屠杀、流离失所和开垦过程的持续质量。帝国结构是一种力量关系，它所蕴含的政治形式超越了立法禁止平等机会、相称尊严和平等权利的正式排除。使用帝国形成的概念，而不是帝国本身，重点从固定的主权形式及其否认转向分级的主权形式以及长期以来标志着帝国统治技术的东西——不同权利的滑动和有争议的规模。帝国的构成是由分配和拨款的种族化关系定义的。与帝国不同，它们是变化的过程，而不是固定的事物。尤其是，它们是发放期票的延期状态，这些期票不是其运作的例外，而是其运作的组成部分：帝国监护、托管、延迟自治、临时干预、有条件监护、以人道主义工作名义的军事接管、以人权名义的暴力干预以及以和平名义的安全措施。
In this article, I look at “imperial formations” rather than at empire per se to register the ongoing quality of processes of decimation, displacement, and reclamation. Imperial formations are relations of force, harboring political forms that endure beyond the formal exclusions that legislate against equal opportunity, commensurate dignities, and equal rights. Working with the concept of imperial formation, rather than empire per se, the emphasis shifts from fixed forms of sovereignty and its denials to gradated forms of sovereignty and what has long marked the technologies of imperial rule—sliding and contested scales of differential rights. Imperial formations are defined by racialized relations of allocations and appropriations. Unlike empires, they are processes of becoming, not fixed things. Not least they are states of deferral that mete out promissory notes that are not exceptions to their operation but constitutive of them: imperial guardianship, trusteeships, delayed autonomy, temporary intervention, conditional tutelage, military takeover in the name of humanitarian works, violent intervention in the name of human rights, and security measures in the name of peace.