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"In 1893, a group of colonial officials from thirteen colonies abandoned their imperial rivalry and established the International Colonial Institute (ICI), the world's most important colonial think tank of the twentieth century. Through the lens of the ICI, Florian Wagner argues that these colonial internationalists reshaped colonialism as a transimperial governmental policy, demonstrating that the ICI's goal of encouraging colonial development through the international cooperation of colonial experts in fact served to maintain colonial rule beyond the official end of empires. By inviting the colonized elites to participate, it laid the groundwork for the structural and discursive dependence of the Global South. The book presents a detailed study of the ICI's creation, the transnational activities of its prominent members, its interactions with state governments and colonial actors, and the reactions of Africans and Asians who were unsure as to whether the ICI was a tool of colonialism or an objective third party that might aid their calls for greater autonomy"--
Table des matières
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.
A propos de l'auteur
Florian Wagner is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Erfurt.
Résumé
In 1893, a group of colonial officials from thirteen countries abandoned their imperial rivalry and established the International Colonial Institute (ICI), which became the world's most important colonial think tank of the twentieth century. Through the lens of the ICI, Florian Wagner argues that this international cooperation reshaped colonialism as a transimperial and governmental policy. The book demonstrates that the ICI's strategy of using indigenous institutions and customary laws to encourage colonial development served to maintain colonial rule even beyond the official end of empires. By selectively choosing loyalists among the colonized to participate in the ICI, it increased their autonomy while equally delegitimizing more radical claims for independence. The book presents a detailed study of the ICI's creation, the transcolonial activities of its prominent members, its interactions with the League of Nations and fascist governments, and its role in laying the groundwork for the structural and discursive dependence of the Global South after 1945.
Préface
Explores how the International Colonial Institute, a pervasive colonial think tank established in 1893, reformed colonialism to make empires last.
Texte suppl.
'Through the life of the International Colonial Institute, Wagner offers a stunning account of the ways internationalism served the goals of empire. Ranging from health and rural development to the codification of customary and Islamic law, he vividly shows how knowledgeable but manipulative transnational networks of experts agreed on one fundamental course of action: undermining self-determination to legitimize the persistence of (neo)colonial structures.' Sara Lorenzini, University of Trento
