ABSTRACT The Colonies of Benevolence were an early nineteenth century Dutch utopian social experiment in pauper relief, domestic settler colonialism, and segregative rehabilitation; it served as the model for Mettray, held as the epitome of the ‘carceral archipelago’ in Discipline and Punish: the birth of the prison. This disciplinary experiment served as a model of ‘domestic colonization’ for more than a hundred years that was widely emulated throughout Europe; and was also applied in the distant colony of Java. Many have noted Foucault’s failure to address colonialism in what more rightly should be described as a ‘carceral archipelago of empire’. Here, I address the emergence of domestic colonization as a response to Liberalism’s inner contradictions; between its protection of the individual rights of property holders, and the need to discipline, but not jail, the property-less. Only in this way can the colony’s status as a ‘prison designed not to be a prison’ be understood.

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仁慈的殖民地：大荷兰帝国的殖民地群岛

摘要仁慈殖民地是19世纪初期荷兰乌托邦式的社会实验，旨在减轻贫困，家庭殖民者的殖民主义和种族隔离。它是梅特里（Mettray）的典范，梅特里（Mettray）是“惩戒和惩罚”中“监狱群岛”的缩影：监狱的诞生。这一学科实验在过去一百多年中一直是“国内殖民化”的典范，并在整个欧洲得到了广泛的模仿。并且还应用于遥远的Java殖民地。许多人指出，福柯未能解决殖民主义问题，而更应该将其描述为“帝国的统治群岛”。在这里，我谈到国内殖民化的出现是对自由主义内在矛盾的回应。在保护财产所有人的个人权利与纪律的需要之间，但没有监狱，财产少。只有这样，才能理解该殖民地作为“不设监狱的监狱”的地位。