Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Unsettling Utopia by Jessica Namakkal After India achieved independence from the British in 1947, France retained control of five scattered territories until 1962. Unsettling Utopia presents a new account of the history of twentieth-century French India to show how colonial projects persisted beyond formal decolonization. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description After India achieved independence from the British in 1947, there remained five scattered territories governed by the French imperial state. It was not until 1962 that France fully relinquished control. Once decolonization took hold across the subcontinent, Western-led ashrams and utopian communities remained in and around the former French territory of Pondicherry-most notably the Sri Aurobindo Ashram and the Auroville experimental township, which continue to thrive and draw tourists today.Unsettling Utopia presents a new account of the history of twentieth-century French India to show how colonial projects persisted beyond formal decolonization. Through the experience of the French territories, Jessica Namakkal recasts the relationships among colonization, settlement, postcolonial sovereignty, utopianism, and liberation, considering questions of borders, exile, violence, and citizenship from the margins. She demonstrates how state-sponsored decolonization-the bureaucratic process of transferring governance from an imperial state to a postcolonial state-rarely aligned with local desires. Namakkal examines the colonial histories of the Aurobindo Ashram and Auroville, arguing that their continued success shows how decolonization paradoxically opened new spaces of settlement, perpetuating imperial power. Challenging conventional markers of the boundaries of the colonial era as well as nationalist narratives, Unsettling Utopia sheds new light on the legacies of colonialism and offers bold thinking on what decolonization might yet mean. Author Biography Jessica Namakkal is associate professor of the practice in international comparative studies; gender, sexuality, and feminist studies; and history at Duke University. Table of Contents AcknowledgmentsChronology Introduction: On Minor Borders and Colonial TimePart 1: Making 1. Carceral Borders: Exile, Surveillance, and Subversion2. The Future of French India: Decolonization and Settlement at the Borders3. Making the Postcolonial Subject: Goondas, Refugees, and CitizensPart 2: Unmaking4. Decolonial Crossings: Settlers, Migrants, Tourists5. From the Ashram to Auroville: Utopia as SettlementConclusion: The Messiness of ColonialismAppendixNotesBibliographyIndex Review Exploring the decolonization of French India, Namakkals lucid and innovative book brings together the history of state-led decolonization and the creation of utopias to reveal how both projects relied on regimes of labor, erasure, and territorial expansion that had much in common with the colonizing project. Engaging, ambitious, and deeply researched, Unsettling Utopia brings new and important insights to our understanding of the temporal boundaries of colonialism and decolonization. -- Danna Agmon, author of A Colonial Affair: Commerce, Conversion, and Scandal in French IndiaJessica Namakkals excellent book reveals hidden layers of Pondicherrys feigned decolonization and ongoing recolonization. This tour de force is the kind of book you dont want to finish; it keeps you right on the edge of your seat, avidly turning the pages for more. -- Ari Gautier, author of Le ThinnaiUnsettling Utopia is a fascinating book on the postcolonial history of French India as well as a provocative analysis of the structural relationships among colonial settlement, utopian thinking, and the incompleteness of decolonization. Namakkals immense effort to engage the far-flung transnational archives of French India inform this important book and the revealing light it sheds on the messy history of French imperialism in southern India and its spatial, social, and spiritual afterlives. -- Tariq Jazeel, author of Sacred Modernity: Nature, Environment, and the Postcolonial Geographies of Sri Lankan NationhoodThis is by far and away the most scholarly, yet readable, account of the long twentieth century in Pondicherry/Puducherry. . . . This excellent book deserves to be read widely by historians, sociologists, geographers, political scientists and more. * H-Soz-Kult *By looking through the lens of minor histories, Unsettling Utopia is able to uncover and challenge the mythmaking exercises of former colonisers, the blind spots of the anticolonial nationalist movement, and the complicities of the postcolonial nation-state. * Himal Southasian *Namakkals book helped me examine my own experiences anew in the context of Pondicherrys colonial history. I heartily recommend this book to readers keen on understanding how the past continues into the present. * Hindustan Times *Nuanced, rich, [with] extensive detail...this is by far and away the most scholarly, yet readable, account of the long twentieth century in Pondicherry/Puducherry. -- Andy Davies * H-Soz-Kult * Review Quote Exploring the decolonization of French India, Namakkals lucid and innovative book brings together the history of state-led decolonization and the creation of utopias, to reveal how both projects relied on regimes of labor, erasure, and territorial expansion that had much in common with the colonizing project. Engaging, ambitious, and deeply researched, Unsettling Utopia brings new and important insights to our understanding of the temporal boundaries of colonialism and decolonization. Details ISBN0231197683 Author Jessica Namakkal Publisher Columbia University Press Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 0231197683 ISBN-13 9780231197687 Format Hardcover Pages 328 Imprint Columbia University Press Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2021-06-22 NZ Release Date 2021-06-22 US Release Date 2021-06-22 UK Release Date 2021-08-05 Subtitle The Making and Unmaking of French India Series Columbia Studies in International and Global History Publication Date 2021-06-22 DEWEY 954.029 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 30 DAY RETURN POLICY No questions asked, 30 day returns! FREE DELIVERY No matter where you are in the UK, delivery is free. 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ISBN-13: 9780231197687
Book Title: Unsettling Utopia
ISBN: 9780231197687
Number of Pages: 328 Pages
Publication Name: Unsettling Utopia: the Making and Unmaking of French India
Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Item Height: 229 mm
Subject: History
Publication Year: 2021
Type: Textbook
Author: Jessica Namakkal
Item Width: 152 mm
Series: Columbia Studies in International and Global History
Format: Hardcover
