Colonial Switzerland

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Patricia Purtschert, Harald Fischer-Tiné

      Pages 1-25

3. Colonialism and Science

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27

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   2. On the Tropical Origins of the Alps

      • Bernhard C. Schär

      Pages 29-49

   3. Race in the Making

      • Pascal Germann

      Pages 50-72

   4. The Other’s Colony

      • Lukas Meier

      Pages 73-87

4. (Post)colonial Economies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89

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   2. Patriotic Bonds and the Danger of Estrangement

      • Andreas Zangger

      Pages 91-109

   3. ‘Wonderland’ Peru

      • Angela Sanders

      Pages 110-132

   4. Bollywood, Chicken Curry — and IT

      • Rohit Jain

      Pages 133-153

5. (Post)colonial Self-Representations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 155-155

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   2. Becoming Imperial

      • Ruramisai Charumbira

      Pages 157-178

   3. From ‘Native’ Alpine Guides to Foreign ‘Sahibs’ in the Himalayas

      • Patricia Purtschert

      Pages 179-199

   4. Overburdened White Men (and Women)

      • Patricia Hongler, Marina Lienhard

      Pages 200-218

6. (Post)colonial Politics and Counter-Politics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 219-219

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   2. The Other Side of Internationalism

      • Harald Fischer-Tiné

      Pages 221-258

   3. ‘The Chinaman of old cannot be compared to the Chinaman of today’

      • Ariane Knüsel

      Pages 259-277

   4. Glimpses into the Hearts of Whiteness

      • Anne Lavanchy

      Pages 278-295

7. Colonial Complicities and Imperial Entanglements

   1. Colonial Complicities and Imperial Entanglements

      • Shalini Randeria

      Pages 296-306

8. Back Matter

   Pages 307-323

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States without former colonies, it has been argued, were intensely involved in colonial practices. This anthology looks at Switzerland, which, by its very strong economic involvements with colonialism, its doctrine of neutrality, and its transnationally entangled scientific community, constitutes a perfect case in point.

• Postcolonialism
• Colonialism
• Switzerland
• Imperialism
• Race Science
• Migration
• Colonial Knowledge
• anti-colonialism
• colonialism
• colonization
• decolonization
• migration
• Third World

“Colonial Switzerland is awkwardly intriguing given a lack of Swiss colonies overall. … Colonial Switzerland looks at Switzerland ‘as a country shaped by colonialism in a variety of ways’ … and thereby explores overlooked avenues of inquiry tied to the ‘colonialism at the margins’ or ‘colonialism without colonies’ … . Colonial Switzerland constitutes, without a doubt, a valuable contribution to ongoing conversations around the study of ‘colonialism without colonies’ … a scholarly interest apparent well beyond the small Alpine state.” (Martin Kalb, Itinerario, Vol. 40 (1), April, 2016)

• ETH Zurich, Switzerland

  Patricia Purtschert, Harald Fischer-Tiné

Patricia Purtschert is Postdoctoral Researcher at ETH Zürich, Switzerland, and a philosopher. Her areas of research are feminist, gender, queer, postcolonial and cultural studies. Together with Barbara Lüthi and Francesca Falk, she has co-edited the volume Postkoloniale Schweiz: Formen und Folgen eines Kolonialismus ohne Kolonien (2012, 2nd edition 2013).

Harald Fischer-Tiné is Professor of Global History at ETH Zürich, Switzerland. He has published widely on South Asian history and the history of colonialism and imperialism. His latest monograph is the biography of a diasporic Indian revolutionary: Shyamji Krishnavarma: Sanskrit, Sociology and Anti-Imperialism (2014).