Description
Radding describes this colonial mission not merely for example of Iberian expansion but as a web page of cultural and political war of words. This alternative vision of colonialism emphasizes the industrial links between mission communities and Spanish mercantilist policies, the biological consequences of the Spanish policy of forced congregación, and the cultural and ecological displacements set in motion by the practices of discipline and surveillance established by the religious orders. Addressing wider issues pertaining to ethnic identities and to ecological and cultural borders, Radding’s analysis also underscores the parallel production of colonial and subaltern texts all over the course of a 150-year struggle for power and survival.