Empire, development & colonialism : the past in the present / edited by Mark Duffield, Vernon Hewitt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Duffield, Mark R., editor.

Hewitt, Vernon Marston, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Colonies--Administration--History--Congresses.

Colonies.

Humanitarian intervention--Decision making--Congresses.

Humanitarian intervention.

International relations--History--Congresses.

International relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 211 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Empire, Development & Colonialism

Place of Publication:

Suffolk : Boydell & Brewer, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 Politics at the University of Bristol; VERNON HEWITT is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Bristol.

Contents:

The exceptional inclusion of 'savages' & 'barbarians' : the colonial liberal bio-politics of mobility & development / Matthew Merefield

Empire, international development & the concept of good government / Vernon Hewitt

Empire : a question of hearts? : the social turn in colonial government Bombay c. 1905-1925 / Henrik Aspengren

'Conflict-sensitive' aid & making liberal peace / Suthaharan Nadarajah

Development, poverty & famines : the case of British Empire / Richard Sheldon

Plain tales from the reconstruction site : spatial continuities in contemporary humanitarian practice / Lisa Smirl

The international politics of social transformation : trusteeship & intervention in historical perspective / David Williams & Tom Young

Liberal interventionism & the fragile state : linked by design? / Mark Duffield

Freedom, fear & NGOs : balancing discourses of violence & humanity in securitising times / Patricia Noxolo

Theorising continuities between empire & development : toward a new theory of history / April R. Biccum

Spatial practices & imaginaries : experiences of colonial officers & development professionals / Uma Kothari

Decolonising the borders in Sudan : ethnic territories & national development / Douglas H. Johnson

'Individualism is, indeed, running riot' : components of the social democratic model of development / Paul Kelemen.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-78204-745-X

1-282-98818-2

9786612988189

1-84615-717-X

OCLC:

703606649