Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Content 5
3. Acknowledgements 7
4. Introduction: Spatial Control, Disciplinary Power and Assimilation: the Inevitable Side-Effects of ›Progress‹ and Capitalist ›Modernity‹ 9
5. Chapter One: Into the West, into the East: Spatial Control and Property Relations
6. Law into the Far West: Territorial Rights, Indigenous Peoples and Spatial Imagination in the Baptism of the Brazilian Nation-State (1930s–1940s) 37
7. Land, People and Development Interventions: the Case of Rangelands and Mobile Pastoralists in Central Asia 65
8. Re-ordering American Indians’ Spatial Practices: The 1887 Dawes Act 91
9. Chapter Two: Settlement Schemes and Development Dreams
10. Villagization and the Ambivalent Production of Rural Space in Tanzania 119
11. From Agrarian Experiments to Population Displacement: Iraqi Kurdish Collective Towns in the Context of Socialist ›Villagization‹ in the 1970s 137
12. Spatial Control, ›Modernization‹ and Assimilation: Large Dams in Nubia and the Arabization of Northern Sudan 165
13. Chapter Three: Spatial Control, Knowledge, and the ›Other‹
14. Prevailing Paradigms: Enforced Settlement, Control and Fear in Australian National Discourse 189
15. Disciplining the ›Other‹: Frictions and Continuations in Conceptualizing the ›Zigeuner‹ in the 18th and 19th Century 221
16. Chapter Four: Disciplinary Spaces as Counterinsurgency – Encountered and Countering
17. Scorched Earth Campaigns, Forced Resettlement and Ethnic Engineering: Guatemala in the 1980s 239
18. Appropriating and Transforming a Space of Violence and Destruction into one of Social Reconstruction: Survivors of the Anfal Campaign (1988) in the Collective Towns of Kurdistan 263
19. Discussion: Commentary on Disciplinary Spaces: Spatial Control, Forced Assimilation and Narratives of ›Progress‹ since the 19th Century 287
20. List of Contributors 297