The state is educative and formative, not merely coercive and administrative
Evidence
Gramsci certainly would not entertain that kind of reductionism for a moment. He knows he is analyzing structurally complex, not simple and transparent, formations. He knows that politics has its own “relatively autonomous” forms, tempos, and trajectories, which need to be studied in their own right, with their own distinctive concepts, and with attention to their real and retroactive effects. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 139 (
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Second — the colonial school code. From approximately 1900 onward, colonial education departments issued formal codes regulating the operation of African schools — both mission-run and government-run. These codes explicitly authorized corporal punishment of pupils. The 1934 Education Code of the Gold Coast Colony, the 1937 Education Ordinance of Tanganyika, the 1942 Native Education Code of South Africa — these are the operationally consequential documents. They permitted school masters to administer up to six strokes of the cane on the buttocks or palms of male pupils, and lesser punishment of female pupils, for a defined range of offences including disobedience, lateness, failure to learn, and speaking African languages on school grounds. The codes did not invent the practice — the missions had been operating it since 1841. The codes codified it as official colonial-state operational policy. — , The Rod and the Child, 4446 (
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Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Politics has relatively autonomous forms requiring study in their own right — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 139; Colonial school codes formally codified caning as official state policy — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 4446
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- Colonial school codes formally codified caning as official state policy (similarity 0.80)
Broader Connections
- Politics has relatively autonomous forms requiring study in their own right
#expands(0.75) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 139 - Colonial school codes formally codified caning as official state policy
#exemplifies(0.72) — , The Rod and the Child, 4446