Ruling the Savage Periphery: Frontier Governance and the Making of the Modern State

Benjamin Hopkins develops a new theory of colonial administration: frontier governmentality. This system placed indigenous peoples at the borders of imperial territory, where they could be both exploited and kept away. Today's "failed states" are a result. Condemned to the periphery of the global order, they function as colonial design intended.

• | Author: Benjamin D. Hopkins
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: May 05, 2020
• | Number of Pages: 288 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0674980700
• | ISBN-13: 9780674980709