Schweigen über Differenz

Poettering, Jorun (2022): Schweigen über Differenz. Schwarze im kolonialen und postkolonialen Sicherheitsdiskurs Brasiliens. In: Ruby, Sigrid und Krause, Anja (Hrsg.): Sicherheit und Differenz in historischer Perspektive. Security and Difference in Historical Perspective. Politiken der Sicherheit, Bd. 10. 1. Baden-Baden: Nomos. S. 75-94

Abstract

In 1808, Portugal’s royal court fled from Napoleon’s forces and resettled in Rio de Janeiro. Within a very short time, the city’s population grew rapidly while it also had to meet the demands of a European royal capital. This situation fostered two different security discourses. On the one hand, there was a discourse, also widespread throughout much of Europe, on the threat posed by mostly foreign revolutionaries. But, as this contribution shows, on the other hand, there was a telling silence about potentially insurgent black people. This silence was only broken once they became the target of repression by the public security apparatus and more and more frequently struggled to establish their rights (and thus their security). However, the abolition of slavery in 1888 intensified racism, which once again became covered by public silence — a silence that willfully ignored the difference constituted by this very racism and thus continued to obstruct security for the black population.

• Dokumententyp: Buchbeitrag
• EU Funded Grant Agreement Number: 659520
• EU-Projekte: Horizon 2020 > Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions > Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships ; Horizon 2020 > Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions > Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships > 659520: Contested Waters - Rio de Janeiro’s Public Water Supply and the Social Structuring of the City
• Keywords: security; colonial and postcolonial Brazil; Rio de Janeiro; slaver; racism; census; silence
• Fakultät: Geschichts- und Kunstwissenschaften > Historisches Seminar > Neuere und Neueste Geschichte
• Themengebiete: 900 Geschichte und Geografie > 980 Geschichte Südamerikas
• ISBN: 978-3-7489-2531-6
• Ort: Baden-Baden
• Sprache: Deutsch