During the nineteenth century in Ireland, agents of the colonial state like the police, along with the administrators that they served, forged an association between political motivations and Irish agrarian violence. They did so not only through the policing of Irish violence, but through the methods used by the colonial state to categorize, process, record, and archive it. Central to this endeavor was the category of “outrage.” Using this category, the Irish Constabulary created a record that impressed an association between Irish violence or criminality and political resistance. Because the British colonial state had control over the production of the archive, it also dictated the metanarratives present in this “archive of outrages” that gave form and function to the colonial state's fears that Irish violence represented a budding insurrection or a desire to fracture the Union. By perpetuating this logic in document and archival form, Dublin Castle (the seat of the British government's administration of Ireland) helped create the very demon that it sought to exorcise—that of Irish nationalist action and sentiment.

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愤怒的政治：爱尔兰殖民地的暴力、治安和档案


在十九世纪的爱尔兰，警察等殖民国家的代理人以及他们所服务的行政人员在政治动机和爱尔兰土地暴力之间建立了联系。他们不仅通过对爱尔兰暴力进行监管，还通过殖民国家对暴力进行分类、处理、记录和存档的方法来做到这一点。这一努力的核心是“愤怒”类别。爱尔兰警察利用这一类别创造了一项记录，令人印象深刻地将爱尔兰的暴力或犯罪行为与政治抵抗联系起来。由于英国殖民国家控制了档案的制作，它也决定了这个“暴行档案”中存在的元叙事，这些元叙事为殖民国家的恐惧提供了形式和功能，即爱尔兰的暴力代表着正在萌芽的叛乱或分裂国家的愿望。联盟。通过以文件和档案的形式延续这种逻辑，都柏林城堡（英国政府在爱尔兰的行政所在地）帮助创造了它试图驱除的恶魔——爱尔兰民族主义行动和情绪。