Indo activists reproduced the commission’s own disciplinary argument for land rights.

Evidence

There is no parody in the account. The bid for Indo land rights, and the warning that the rich and the state would do well to grant them if they truly feared “anarchism,” differed only slightly from the same argument made by the commission three years before and by those who proposed the rural penal colonies like Mettray sixty years earlier. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 998

Categorization

• XREF: The Mettray reference strongly echoes Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish on the Mettray colony as the carceral ideal.
• SHARE: Send to anyone working on internalized colonial discipline or evangelical/carceral reform rhetoric.