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Journal Article
Introduction: The Civilizing Mission
2016
Overview
The phrase civilizing mission invites cliche. As a label for a style of thought during the nineteenth century, it embodied the simplification of diverse peoples and historical experiences into conceptual boxes like savage and barbaric -- suffocating containers that led to misjudgments by would-be rulers and inspired repudiation and revolt by their subjects. It was a style of thought whose high cost could be seen at home in Europe, with dramatic force on a national level in the enthusiasm for civilizing one's fellow citizens in the rush of enthusiasm that followed from political unification in Italy and Germany. Taken at this level of discursive stereotype (which is only the point of departure for Hubner's and Thurman's rich essays), the phrase \"civilizing mission is little more than ideological superstructure. In that case it would simply be a disguise for the real economic and political motives driving nineteenth-century societies.
Publisher
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI'I PRESS,University of Hawai'i Press,University of Hawaii Press
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