Buch, Englisch, 223 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 331 g
The Past in the Present
Buch, Englisch, 223 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 331 g
ISBN: 978-1-84701-077-3
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
This book makes a unique contribution to the renewed debate about empire and imperialism and will be of great interest to all those concerned with understanding the historical antecedents and wider implications of today's emergentliberal interventionism, and the various logics of international development.
This collection explores the similarities, differences and overlaps between the contemporary debates on international development and humanitarian intervention and the historical artefacts and strategies of Empire. It includes views by historians and students of politics and development, drawing on a range of methodologies and approaches.
The parallels between the language of nineteenth-century liberal imperialism and the humanitarian interventionism of the post-Cold War era are striking. The American military, both in Somalia in the early 1990s and in the aftermath the Iraq invasion, used ethnographic information compiled by British colonial administrators. Are these interconnections, which are capable of endless multiplication, accidental curiosities or more elemental? The contributors to this book articulate the belief that these comparisons are not just anecdotal but are analytically revealing.From the language of moral necessity and conviction, the design of specific aid packages; the devised forms of intervention and governmentality, through to the life-style, design and location of NGO encampments, the authors seek to account for the numerous and often striking parallels between contemporary international security, development and humanitarian intervention, and the logic of Empire.
MARK DUFFIELD is Professor of Development Politicsat the University of Bristol; VERNON HEWITT is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Bristol
Southern Africa (South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Namibia): HSRC Press
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Postkoloniale Geschichte, Nationale Befreiung und Unabhängigkeit
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
Weitere Infos & Material
MARK DUFFIELD & VERNON HEWITT Introduction
MATT MEREFIELD The Exceptional Inclusion of 'Savages' & 'Barbarians': The Colonial Liberal Bio-politics of Mobility & Development
VERNON HEWITT Empire, International Development & the Concept of Good Government
HENRIK ASPENGREN Empire: A Question of Hearts? The Social Turn in Colonial Government. Bombay c.1905-25
SUTHAHARAN NADARAJAH 'Conflict Sensitive' Aid & Making Liberal Peace
RICHARD SHELDON Development, Poverty & Famines: The Case of the British Empire
LISA SMIRL Plain Tales from the Reconstruction Site: Spatial Continuities in Contemporary Humanitarian Practice
TOM YOUNG & DAVID WILLIAMS The International Politics of Social Transformation: Trusteeship & Intervention in Historical Perspective
MARK DUFFIELD Liberal Interventionism & the Fragile State: Linked by Design?
PATRICIA NOXOLO Freedom, Fear & NGOs: Balancing Discourses of Violence & Humanity in Securitising Times
APRIL R. BICCUM Theorising Continuities between Empire & Development: Toward a New Theory of History
UMA KOTHARI Spatial Practices & Imaginaries: Experiences of Colonial Officers & Development Professionals
DOUGLAS H. JOHNSON Decolonising the Borders in Sudan: Ethnic Territories & National Development
PAUL KELEMEN 'Individualism is, Indeed, Running Riot': Components of the Social Democratic Model of Development
