if anyone knows anyone who has any knowledge on sedentarization practices carried out by states against nomadic/otherwise non-sedentary peoples, please let me know. i've got some pointed research questions i'd like to ask.
@exiliaex Just as long as we remember that sendentary peoples don't necessarily form states or make war upon nomadics...I wish you luck in your research.
@FinalOverdrive uhhhhhhhhhhhhh 👀
@FinalOverdrive i am 100% trying to show how the logic of states produces denomadization. not necessarily saying this about "settled people" but... it depends
@exiliaex Fair enough. You made your point. Just bear in mind nomadic peoples can form states of a kind as well.
@FinalOverdrive this is something ive wanted to study. can you point me in the right direction? i dont know where to start.
@exiliaex The Dawn of Everything is a good start, and it has references to look up as well.
@FinalOverdrive thank you greatly 🙏
@exiliaex Also, sometimes no neat lines can be drawn between sedentary and nomadic: the same people may be nomadic part of the year and sedentary another part of the year. Some blur the line so effectively one cannot clearly say whether they were sedentary or nomadic, as sometimes they practiced a kind of agriculture that didn't require them to stay in one place all the time.
@FinalOverdrive agreed, the point i will be showing is how the (at minimum, modern state, with its feudal colored history, theological roots) kills off all of those ways of life for a fuller integration into The Economy.
@exiliaex In fact, I don't even think it's much older than the 20th century imo.
@FinalOverdrive firm disagree. i'm going to gesture you to Giorgio Agamben's The Kingdom and the Glory.
@exiliaex And how even that notion of The Economy is more recent than the feudal era.