- Lanny Thompson is author of Imperial Archipelago: Representation and Rule in the Insular Territories under US Dominio... moreLanny Thompson is author of Imperial Archipelago: Representation and Rule in the Insular Territories under US Dominion after 1898 (University of Hawai`i Press, 2010). He is currently researching colonial governmentality from a comparative perspective, with emphasis on disciplinary institutions such as public schools. In addition, he is researching military cartography and its effect on the creation of colonial spaces.edit
Keywords: Archipelagic Thinking, Geography, Glissant
Overview: Lanny Thompson narrates this extensively illustrated video, discussing the extraordinary notebooks, itineraries, photographs, sketches, town maps, and descriptions produced by Lt. William H. Armstrong while on cartographic... more
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Lanny Thompson narrates this extensively illustrated video, discussing the extraordinary notebooks, itineraries, photographs, sketches, town maps, and descriptions produced by Lt. William H. Armstrong while on cartographic assignment for the US government in Puerto Rico, 1908–1912. Armstrong's work resulted in a detailed topography known as the "Progressive Military Map of Puerto Rico." A gifted illustrator and map maker, Armstrong expressed a colonialist's disposition toward the island's landscape and people.
Lanny Thompson narrates this extensively illustrated video, discussing the extraordinary notebooks, itineraries, photographs, sketches, town maps, and descriptions produced by Lt. William H. Armstrong while on cartographic assignment for the US government in Puerto Rico, 1908–1912. Armstrong's work resulted in a detailed topography known as the "Progressive Military Map of Puerto Rico." A gifted illustrator and map maker, Armstrong expressed a colonialist's disposition toward the island's landscape and people.
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This chapter will address the deployments of colonial governmentality during the first decade of US dominion in Puerto Rico and the Philippines. Governmentality is understood as dispositive, that is, an ensemble of the apparatuses of... more
This chapter will address the deployments of colonial governmentality during the first decade of US dominion in Puerto Rico and the Philippines. Governmentality is understood as dispositive, that is, an ensemble of the apparatuses of governmental rationality, sovereignty, and discipline. This chapter will examine the shifting configurations of some of the specific apparatuses of necro- and biopolitics, coercive security forces, disciplinary institutions, and other tutelary practices within the overall dispositive of governmentality, including the political structures of governance. This chapter will address the issue of the place and scale of these deployments: institutions, public spaces, bureaucratic structures, and military hierarchies. Throughout, a comparative perspective will shed light upon how colonial governmentality was deployed historically in ways that were adapted to different strategies, local conditions, and patterns of collaboration and resistance, especially among school teachers.
Keywords: Colonial governmentality; biopolitics; public schools; Puerto
Rico; Philippines
Keywords: Colonial governmentality; biopolitics; public schools; Puerto
Rico; Philippines
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Chapter 11 in Formations of United States Colonialism, editor Alyosha Goldstein, Duke University Press, 2014
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Puerto Rico en fotos: La colección menonita, 1940-1950 es un libro que cuenta una compleja y fascinante epopeya acerca de un archivo de fotografías. La doctora Libia González López ha escrito una introducción que establece el escenario y... more
Puerto Rico en fotos: La colección menonita, 1940-1950 es un libro que cuenta una compleja y fascinante epopeya acerca de un archivo de fotografías. La doctora Libia González López ha escrito una introducción que establece el escenario y los actores principales. En esta historia, el pueblo de Puerto Rico lucha, bajo el liderazgo de un gran político, en contra de la pobreza y la explotación. Como en toda epopeya, se precisa de la intervención sobrenatural y divina.
Publikationsansicht. 31452247. Households and the reproduction of labor in Mexico, 1876-1970 / (1988). Thompson, Lanny. Abstract. Typescript.. Thesis (Ph. D.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, 1989.. Bibliography: leaves... more
Publikationsansicht. 31452247. Households and the reproduction of labor in Mexico, 1876-1970 / (1988). Thompson, Lanny. Abstract. Typescript.. Thesis (Ph. D.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, 1989.. Bibliography: leaves 369-386. Details der Publikation. ...
This study describes the basic household structures of the popular classes in the historical context of the Mexican transition from a peripheral zone to an industrialized semiperiphery. Five basic household types are considered:(1)... more
This study describes the basic household structures of the popular classes in the historical context of the Mexican transition from a peripheral zone to an industrialized semiperiphery. Five basic household types are considered:(1) marginal,(2) subsistencecentered,(3) wage-centered,(4)" campesino", and (5) market-oriented. These historical types are located within the specific context of the periodicities of labor force formation in central Mexico during the years 1876-1970, which in turn are situated within the general context of long waves of the ...