Schochet, and Lois Schwoeror (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Pocock, “Political Thought in the English-Speaking Atlantic, 1760–1790, Part 1: The Imperial Crisis,” in The Varieties of British Political Thought, 1500–1800, ed. See also David Scott, “Colonial Governmentality,” Social Text 43 (Fall 1995): 191–220, and Anupama Rao and Steven Pierce, “Discipline and the Other Body,” interventions 3.2 (2001): 159–68.Ĥ. Press, 1995), is the most extensive argument for the importance of Foucault’s limited work on race and the necessity of its integration with postcolonial inquiries into the metropole-colony relationship. Ann Laura Stoler, Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault’s History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things (Durham: Duke Univ. This is largely because Foucault himself left much of this work undone. Michel Foucault, “Governmentality,” in Power: Essential Works of Foucault, 1954–1984, vol. Both were frequently affiliated with Britain’s topographical status as an island.Ģ.
These arguments for cultural exceptionalism were most often mounted on the figure of British liberty and the Constitution that sprung from it. As Kathleen Wilson argues in The Island Race: Englishness, Empire and Gender in the Eighteenth Century (New York: Routledge, 2003), this lack of accommodation is evident in the compensatory proliferation of texts that depict Britain as an island: “Indeed, at the precise moment when England was less an island than ever before-when the reach of British trade, arms, colonies and claims transected several seas in an increasingly global grasp when an explosion of travel literature disseminated images of tropical island paradises to force a re-thinking of Britain’s own pasts when voyaging and exploration took on new psychological significance as mental and moral as well as political and commercial activities and when the labor, movement, commodities and cultures of foreign and colonial peoples were underwriting English prosperity and ‘character’-English people were most eager to stress the ways in which their nation was unique, culturally as well as topographically” (5).
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