Vernon Hewitt

Empire, Development and Colonialism (eBook, ePUB)

The Past in the Present
Redaktion: Duffield, Mark; Hewitt, Vernon

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Abingdon Press
• Seitenzahl: 223
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782047452
• Artikelnr.: 56407101

Autorenporträt

Mark Duffield, Vernon Hewitt

Inhaltsangabe

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