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Colonial Switzerland

Rethinking Colonialism from the Margins

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Part of the book series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies (CIPCSS)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Introduction

  2. Colonialism and Science

  3. (Post)colonial Economies

  4. (Post)colonial Self-Representations

  5. (Post)colonial Politics and Counter-Politics

  6. Colonial Complicities and Imperial Entanglements

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About this book

States without former colonies, it has been argued, were intensely involved in colonial practices. This anthology looks at Switzerland, which, by its very strong economic involvements with colonialism, its doctrine of neutrality, and its transnationally entangled scientific community, constitutes a perfect case in point.

Reviews

“Colonial Switzerland is awkwardly intriguing given a lack of Swiss colonies overall. … Colonial Switzerland looks at Switzerland ‘as a country shaped by colonialism in a variety of ways’ … and thereby explores overlooked avenues of inquiry tied to the ‘colonialism at the margins’ or ‘colonialism without colonies’ … . Colonial Switzerland constitutes, without a doubt, a valuable contribution to ongoing conversations around the study of ‘colonialism without colonies’ … a scholarly interest apparent well beyond the small Alpine state.” (Martin Kalb, Itinerario, Vol. 40 (1), April, 2016)

Editors and Affiliations

  • ETH Zurich, Switzerland

    Patricia Purtschert, Harald Fischer-Tiné

About the editors

Patricia Purtschert is Postdoctoral Researcher at ETH Zürich, Switzerland, and a philosopher. Her areas of research are feminist, gender, queer, postcolonial and cultural studies. Together with Barbara Lüthi and Francesca Falk, she has co-edited the volume Postkoloniale Schweiz: Formen und Folgen eines Kolonialismus ohne Kolonien (2012, 2nd edition 2013).

Harald Fischer-Tiné is Professor of Global History at ETH Zürich, Switzerland. He has published widely on South Asian history and the history of colonialism and imperialism. His latest monograph is the biography of a diasporic Indian revolutionary: Shyamji Krishnavarma: Sanskrit, Sociology and Anti-Imperialism (2014).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Colonial Switzerland

  • Book Subtitle: Rethinking Colonialism from the Margins

  • Editors: Patricia Purtschert, Harald Fischer-Tiné

  • Series Title: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137442741

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-44273-4Published: 28 May 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-49520-7Published: 01 January 2015

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-44274-1Published: 26 May 2015

  • Series ISSN: 2635-1633

  • Series E-ISSN: 2635-1641

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 334

  • Topics: European History, Imperialism and Colonialism, Social History

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