{"id":15938,"date":"2011-08-30T22:31:12","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T22:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=15938"},"modified":"2012-03-24T18:52:31","modified_gmt":"2012-03-24T18:52:31","slug":"creolization-colonial-citizenships-and-degeneracy-a-critique-of-selected-histories-of-sierra-leone-and-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=15938","title":{"rendered":"Creolization, colonial citizenship(s) and degeneracy: A critique of selected histories of Sierra Leone and South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/0011392111408678\" target=\"_blank\">Creolization, colonial citizenship(s) and degeneracy: A critique of selected histories of Sierra Leone and South Africa<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csi.sagepub.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Current Sociology<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/csi.sagepub.com\/content\/59\/5.toc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 59, Number 5<\/a> (September 2011)<br \/>\npages 635-654<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/0011392111408678\" target=\"_blank\">10.1177\/0011392111408678<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.soc.uct.ac.za\/erasmus.html\" target=\"_blank\">Zimitri Erasmus<\/a><\/strong>, Senior Lecturer in Sociology<br \/>\n<em>University of Cape Town<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This work examines the nexus between creolization, colonial citizenship(s) and discourses of degeneration. It focuses on two sites: (1) 19th- and 20th-century <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Freetown\" target=\"_blank\">Freetown, Sierra Leone<\/a>, and (2) the early <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cape_Province\" target=\"_blank\">Cape<\/a> and 20th-century <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/South_Africa\" target=\"_blank\">South Africa<\/a>. The author engages three key thinkers: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%C3%89douard_Glissant\" target=\"_blank\">\u00c9douard Glissant<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.warwick.ac.uk\/fac\/soc\/sociology\/rsw\/current\/cscs\/key_figures\/academics\/jeanloupamselle\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jean-Loup Amselle<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mahmood-mamdani.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mahmood Mamdani<\/a> to illustrate how these colonial administrations deployed creolization to construct partial citizenships derived from ideas of \u2018mixed race\u2019 and \u2018corrupted\u2019 or \u2018lacking\u2019 culture. The author argues that \u2018Creole\u2019 and \u2018creole\u2019 signified, in the colonial imagination, a \u2018degenerate type\u2019 behind its legal category, \u2018non-native\u2019, and shows how uses of the concepts \u2018creolization\u2019 and \u2018creole\u2019, in selected histories of the Cape and Freetown, surrender to their colonial meanings, obscure their biopolitical significance and so, collude with discourses of degeneration. The article concludes first, that Edouard Glissant\u2019s conception of creolization as method counters ethnological reasoning and second, that his concept \u2018Relation\u2019 enables citizenship(s) that contest social inequality and live with difference.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/csi.sagepub.com\/content\/59\/5\/635.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creolization, colonial citizenship(s) and degeneracy: A critique of selected histories of Sierra Leone and South Africa Current Sociology Volume 59, Number 5 (September 2011) pages 635-654 DOI: 10.1177\/0011392111408678 Zimitri Erasmus, Senior Lecturer in Sociology University of Cape Town This work examines the nexus between creolization, colonial citizenship(s) and discourses of degeneration. It focuses on two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,12,459,1196,8,394,520],"tags":[7390,7392,7393,7394,7391,20756,629],"class_list":["post-15938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-articles","category-history","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-south-africa","tag-current-sociology","tag-edouard-glissant","tag-jean-loup-amselle","tag-mahmood-mamdani","tag-sierra-leone","tag-south-africa","tag-zimitri-erasmus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}