Human mobility across the Atlantic stoked revolutionary intermixture and interaction.
Evidence
As Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker (2012) have convincingly shown in relation to histories of the Atlantic, the movement of people spurs forms of interaction and intermixture that often stoke the flames of revolution. In this way, unruly mobilities and unruly (multi)culture are both signs of freedom, where unruliness refers to an ungovernability in relation to the territorialising and exclusionary force of national and colonial state power (see also Scott, 2009). — Luke de Noronha, The conviviality of the overpoliced,…, 34
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to Scott’s ‘Weapons of the Weak’ and his work on state evasion and ungovernability; also parallels the historical mobility theme of the author’s own framing of movement and mixture. — connects to: The revolution transformed customs, language, and master-slave relations; Postwar revolutions genuinely occurred across Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
- DEEPTHINKING: Reframes state control and unsanctioned mobility together as ‘unruly freedom’ in a way that resists easy summary — dense theoretical reworking worth sitting with.
- corroborated: 4 independent passages support this claim — Luke de Noronha, The conviviality of the overpoliced,…, 34