Western Quarantine - Excluding the “Other”

Year 2011, Volume: 1 Issue: 2, 105 - 115, 30.12.2011

Terrance Michael Patrick Duggan

Abstract

This paper employs examples of 19th century travel literature and other sources to explore the nature of the system of western general quarantine which began in the 15th century and continued into the 20th century. It records 19th century western travellers often deliberate disregard for non-western quarantine measures in the Ottoman Sultanate, the employment of quarantine-style settlements in western colonies forming an integral part of western apartheid and racist systems and, the use of disease, quarantine and the absence of quarantine measures, as weapons employed by the western powers against the “other”, being the rest of the worlds’ populations, as a part of the process and practice of western colonisation and imperialism.

Keywords

Quarantine, Exclusion, Satalya-Antalya, plague, othering, racial segregation

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