Abstract
All colonial empires attempt to create a ‘kingdom of order’, where neither a ‘people’s republic’ nor representative politics in the Western sense are allowed in the colonies. The only possible form of colonial politics that could and did exist was a ‘politics of resistance’. Much of the history of colonial everyday life and thought vanishes, however, when colonies are discussed primarily in terms of the politics of resistance. In other words, the political realm of colonies and of colonialism as a whole cannot be understood simply in terms of the politics of resistance. Rather, the lack of a suitable interpretative paradigm for understanding this aspect of colonialism necessitates a concept of ‘colonial publicness’.
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Yun, Hd., Kim, M. (2013). Colonial Publicness as Metaphor. In: Mass Dictatorship and Modernity. Mass Dictatorship in the Twentieth Century. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137304339_9
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