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• Towards a genealogy of colonialism - Governing the "Other" in the colonial and European world of Denmark, c. 1780-1849.
• Life Worlds and Knowledge Circulation, 1450-1850

Broadly defined, my research centres on questions of power, the state, racism, colonialism and modernity in the 18th and 19th centuries, such as: Through which technologies of power are subjects governed and brought to accept cercain truths about themselves? How have the political rationalities of states evolved, cross-fertilized and bifurcated across the complex geographical expanse of European colonializing empires? In which ways are rationalities and pracitices of colonial rule in fact specific to colonialism, and in ways might the analysis of colonial relations and forms of rule teach us more about the tensions inherent in the Western state? 

Theoretically, I draw on two major traditions within the field: the Foucauldian analysis of regimes of power and Global History. 

Supervisors: Hanne Sanders, Lund University, Gunlög Fur, Linnaeus University, and Søren Ivarsson (associate supervisor), University of Copenhagen

Articles (1)

• Christensen, K. E. (2017). Comparing the colonial state - Governing "the social" and policing the population in late 18th century India and Denmark. Political Power and Social Theory, 33, 47-79. Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
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Book chapters (1)

• Edelgaard Christensen, K. (accepted/in press). At sammenligne metropol og koloni : Problematiseringen af ’despotisk magt’ i Danmark og Vestindien i 1700-tallets sidste årtier. In Rud, S. & Ivarsson, S. (Eds.) Globale og postkoloniale perspektiver på dansk kolonihistorie. Aarhus Universitetsforlag.

Newspaper articles (1)

• Edelgaard Christensen, K. (2018). Hvad nattenpotten gemte. Weekendavisen, 20, 12-13.