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SUMMARY:[Historikertag 2018] Close Distance. Social Segregation in Trading Empires and Colonies
DESCRIPTION:Historically, societies often are not first united and become then divided, but they get aggregated by way of migration or by imperial conquest or colonisation. Often those different parts of a society do not merge and integrate completely, but they maintain for a long time manifest though perhaps invisible forms of distinction, separation and segregation. With the term Close Distance we try to cover a wide span of those forms of coexistence that might help to effectively compare across the periods: “racial segregation” would be a term seldom fitting for premodern times, but the roots of such forms of spatial segregation in large nineteenth and even twentieth century cities are reaching far back into early modern times at least. In trade cities and colonial towns those patterns of both peaceful exchange among merchants as well as of conflictual coexistence emerge: of a parataxis of physical closeness on the one hand, and of a unconsciously or even consciously maintained distance on the level of culture. The examples of this panel are: economies of trust and mistrust in the possessions of the Dutch Vereenigde Ostindische Companie in Indonesia; Ignorance and knowledge barriers at courts and tribunals in the Dutch Atlantic colonies; ignorance and unconscious non-knowledge concerning the religion of the Eastern Churches on the side of European Levant merchants in the Mediterranean. In high colonial times of the nineteenth century, the more rigid forms of close distance between ´colonizers´ and ´colonized´ emerge at the same time as a far more reflexive and empiricist approach that stands juxtaposed to that very dichotomy: ideologies of segreagtion in Colonial Africa go hand in hand with the early ethnological research into customs and customary law of the ´indigenous´. For the period of decolonisation, the wider notion of Close Distance is very helpful again as it points to the unintentional forms of misunderstanding, ignorance, the continuities and traditions of separate life styles in every-day culture as they become visible only in conflicts and lawsuits. The panel aims at such a sketch of a history of segregation in a global and transepochal comparison in a new way beyond the sometimes belittling speech of “hybridisation” and “mix of cultures, métissages”, without denying that important processes and phenomena of that kind were and are happening. Not knowing of each other, to ignore the other consciously or unconsciously – Societies of and in close distance.
Der Beitrag Close Distance. Social Segregation in Trading Empires and Colonies erschien zuerst auf Historikertag 2018.
LOCATION:JO1 (Hörsaalgebäude des Exzellenzclusters »Religion und Politik«)
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