Notes from Adele Perry, "Islands of Intimacy: Community, Kinship and Domesticity, Salt Spring Island, 1866, in Ballantyne and Burton, eds., Moving Subjects

(297) Discussion of the "category of intimacy" as articulated by Anne Laura Stoler, "Tense and Tender Ties: The Politics of Comparison in North American History and (Post) Colonial Studies," in Stoler, ed., Haunted By Empire: Geographies of Intimacy in North American History (Durham, 2006), and Stoler, "Geneologies of the Intimate: Movements in Colonial Studies," in Stoler, Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power.

(297) Domestic heterosexuality only one of a "range of historical intimacies that included affect, acrimony, friends, workers, bosses, and coworkers."

(300) Contrasts the theories of sharp racial divisions that defined colonialism to the wide variety of intimacies and complications that existed at the local and actual level.

(300-301) Indeed settlement process legitimization in both directions involved multi-racial alliances and partnerships.
posted by Lloyd at 12:30 PM

The key concept is the "indeterminacy" or "emergence" of sectional differences. All is possibility, all had agency, and yet self-organizing emergent structures created frameworks of considerable force and power.
posted by Lloyd at 12:02 PM