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SUMMARY:Personifying Colonial Governance: Life Geography of George Arthur 
 and the Transition from Colonial Philanthropy to Development Discourse - P
 rofessor Alan Lester\, Department of Geography\, University of Sussex
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CONTACT:Dr. David Nally
DESCRIPTION:This paper aims to draw attention to significant shifts in the
  nature of humane governance during the nineteenth century and to open up 
 a theoretical intersection between life geography\, colonial discourse ana
 lysis and assemblage theory. It focuses on the career in British colonial 
 governance of George Arthur\, successively Aide de Camp in Jersey\, Quarte
 r Master General in Jamaica\, Superintendent of Honduras\, Lieutenant Gove
 rnor of Van Diemen's Land\, Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada\, and Gove
 rnor of the Bombay Presidency. Situating Arthur as an individual component
  within emergent colonial governmental assemblages\, the paper examines th
 e ways that an individual like Arthur could effect and be affected by shif
 ts in humanitarian and governmental discourse and practice. The geographie
 s of Arthur's entanglements in colonial discourses were paramount in affec
 ting the nature and extent of his capacity to effect reformulation of thos
 e discourses. Arthur's personal performances and expressions of colonial g
 overnment in different sites of empire and through specific episodes of co
 ntestation assisted in the deterritorialization of certain kinds of coloni
 al governmentality and the reterritorialization of others. As Arthur moved
  from the West Indies to Van Diemen's Land to Upper Canada to India\, so h
 is person discernibly effected shifts from ameliorative through conservati
 ve humanitarian\, to developmental forms of imperial governance.
LOCATION:Hardy Building 101\, Downing Site (please note change of venue)
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