This talk addressed the relationship between belonging and violence in the political configuration of societies within the container of the state. It argued that in this context, belonging, while often connotated with positive terms, is inherently linked to violent practices of exclusion and discrimination. Thomas Diez then illustrated this ambiguity of belonging in relation to issues such as self-determinaton, migration, violent conflict and population exchanges. Britain was the hub of this arboreal trade and planted many mammoths around the island.
Gillion remarks en passant on five Fijians who travelled with the first batch of Indian coolies from Calcutta to Fiji in While Gillion fails to dwell on the presence in Calcutta of these Islanders from the South Seas, his provocative aside troubles the popular view of Fijians as sedentary subjects of a colonial policy that discouraged the disruption of traditional life-worlds.
Although they were not indentured to colonial plantations, the Islanders shared with the coolies the micropolitical spaces of the depot, the ship and the quarantine station. They participated in the regimes and regulations of the indenture system. These Fijians unsettle two distinct accounts of history by not conforming to either.
They furnish another instance of Islander mobility in the time of modernity. She was one of the most productive Cuban woman writers of her times. And yet, to date we have scant personal details of her life and little contemporary engagement with her work.
She aimed to show that in the tense intersection between her radical critiques of gender norms and her utopic visions of modernity and progress we find deep concern with problems around social reproduction through her framing of love as a social problem.
