Colonial Internationalism and the Governmentality of Empire, 1893-1982

ISBN-13: 9781316512838 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 434 str.

Germany) Wagner Florian (Universitat Erfurt

Opis

Explores how the International Colonial Institute, a pervasive colonial think tank established in 1893, reformed colonialism to make empires last.

Recenzje

'… highly successful in its granular approach to the evolution of ICI members' preferred methods and logics …' Margot Tudor, European Review of History

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. “More Beautiful than the Nationalist Thought”? Colonialist Fraternization and the Birth of Transnational Cooperation; 2. A Transcolonial Governmentality Sui Generis: The Invention of Emulative Development; 3. Politics of Comparison: The Dutch Model and the Reform of Colonial Training Schools; 4. Cultivating the Myth of Transcolonial Progress: The ICI and the Global Career of Buitenzorg's Agronomic Laboratory; 5. The Adatization of Islamic Law and Muslim Codes of Development; 6. Creating an “Anti-Geneva Bloc” and the Question of Representivity; 7. Inventing Fascist Eurafrica at the Volta Congress; 8. False Authenticity: The Fokon'olona and the Cooperative World Commonwealth; 9. “That Has Been Our Program for Fifty Years”: Sustained Development and Loyal Emancipation after 1945; Conclusion.