Interrogating the Spatiality of Colonialism at Different Scales: Contrasting Examples from the Eighteenth-Century French-Canadian Borderland and the Early English Colony of Bermuda.
Author(s): Andrew R Beaupre; Marley Brown III
Year: 2017
Summary
This paper examines two ends of the geographic spectrum along which the production of space can be expected to vary within the dynamics of colonial expansion. Employing case studies from Bermuda and the French colonial frontier, we analyze emerging border zones of the colonizer and the colonized, and the boundaries resulting from the replication of a persistent localism from the homeland. It is argued that the transition to multi-sited and multiscalar approaches within the historical archaeology of colonialism in the last decade can be employed to explore spatiality in two distinct modes. Multi-sited and multiscalar approaches can lead to much better understandings of border zones created by both rival indigenous groups and their European dispossessors but must also be sensitive to the highly localized factors that can play an important role in the spatial practices that unfold within specific colonies.
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Interrogating the Spatiality of Colonialism at Different Scales: Contrasting Examples from the Eighteenth-Century French-Canadian Borderland and the Early English Colony of Bermuda.. Andrew R Beaupre, Marley Brown III. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Fort Worth, TX. 2017 ( tDAR id: 435473)
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Keywords
General
border zones
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colonial production of space
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persistent localism
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
Colonial
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 505