Session Details

Saturday, 08 January

549. Imperial Mechanisms

1:45–3:00 p.m., Platinum Salon B, J. W. Marriott

Program arranged by the Division on Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture

Presiding: John Charles Hawley, Santa Clara Univ.

1. “Imperialism’s Bureaucratic Body,” Saikat Majumdar, Stanford Univ.

2. “Bios, Nomos, Cosmos: Comparing Settler Colonialisms and Indigenous Poetics,” Michael R. Griffiths, Rice Univ.

3. “The Imperial Mechanism of Enclosure: A Genealogy of Land Use for the Twenty-First Century,” Robert Philip Marzec, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette

4. “Hunting as Land Use in British India: The Animal as Imperial Lens,” Shefali Rajamannar, Univ. of Southern California

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