Civilizing policies normalized the presence of subjects in a nation of citizens

Evidence

In the colonies, Weber’s reasoned state, staffed by “cultivated men,” complemented Durkheim’s moralizing one. Colonial states were in the business of “engineering morality,” both among their agents and those ruled. As such, both Weber and Durkheim attended to a register of governance neither explicitly named: the harnessing of affect in the state’s shaping of what constituted morality and who had the right to assess it. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 426 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Substantive democracy required deliberately raising the political value of devalued Untouchables; Colonial authorities aimed to manage subjects’ aspirations as a political necessity; Colonial states engineered morality by harnessing affect in their agents. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 426 (+6 more)

Related

• Colonial states engineered morality by harnessing affect in their agents. (similarity 0.88)
• Colonial states combined Weberian rational and Durkheimian moral governance. (similarity 0.86)
• Philosophical debates about reason versus passion shaped colonial political decisions. (similarity 0.86)
• Colonial dispositions are trained, contested, and deliberately interpreted (similarity 0.81)
• Colonial authorities aimed to manage subjects’ aspirations as a political necessity (similarity 0.81)
• States were once expected to produce passions, not merely check them (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial authorities understood that regime viability depended on managing sentiment contagion (similarity 0.79)
• Empire subtly permeated every family relation in colonial correspondence (similarity 0.79)
• Early-modern statecraft aimed to master affect, not oppose it. (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial states continuously staked political security on governing subjects’ feelings (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Colonial authorities aimed to manage subjects’ aspirations as a political necessity #corroborates (0.75)
• Colonial states engineered morality by harnessing affect in their agents. #expands (0.70) — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 426
• Colonial emotional attributions constructed the social hierarchies they claimed to describe #expands (0.70)
• Colonial training schemes aimed to shape sentiments and restrict desires #corroborates (0.65)