Power and Social Control in Settler and Exploitation Colonies: The Experience of New France and French Colonial Africa
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-2018
Keywords
Colonial Africa, colonialism, colonial urban planning, convergence/divergence, New France, planning power
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1177/0021909618762508
Abstract
This paper analyzes strategies for articulating power and effectuating social control in the built environment by French colonial authorities in New France and colonial Africa. The former was a settler colony while the latter comprised colonies of economic exploitation. Despite their different colonial status, they shared much in common. In this regard, French colonial authorities recycled spatial control strategies they had employed in New France a century earlier for use in Africa. However some changes commensurate with the changing priorities and objectives of the French colonial project were instituted. In particular, recycled policies from New France were made more stringent, less tolerant and ostensibly oppressive in French colonial Africa.
Was this content written or created while at USF?
Yes
Citation / Publisher Attribution
Journal of Asian and African Studies, v. 53, issue 6, p. 932-951
Scholar Commons Citation
Bigon, Liora and Njoh, Ambe J., "Power and Social Control in Settler and Exploitation Colonies: The Experience of New France and French Colonial Africa" (2018). School of Geosciences Faculty and Staff Publications. 2002.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/geo_facpub/2002
