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Gordon Mathews - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Collaborative Colonial Power: The Making of the Hong Kong Chinese
    China Journal, 2010
    Co-Authors: Gordon Mathews
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    Collaborative Colonial Power: The Making of the Hong Kong Chinese, by Law Wing Sang. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2009. xii + 262 pp. HK$350.00/US$45.00 (hardcover), HK$195.00/US$25.00 (paperback). During the 1980s and early 1990s, it was sometimes said that Hong Kong's renderings of its history were trapped between a Western or British narrative stressing Hong Kong's extraordinary Colonial success apart from China and a mainland Chinese narrative stressing Hong Kong's Colonial humiliations and coming return to the motherland; Hong Kong's own historical narrative had yet to spring forth. In recent years, a number of historians of Hong Kong have emerged to tell Hong Kong's own story in a subtler and more nuanced way than these earlier narratives. With this book, the cultural studies scholar Law Wing Sang joins this new breed of Hong Kong chroniclers. The argument of the book is that Colonial Power in Hong Kong was never simply a political force but rather a complex web of relationships - it was a collaborative Colonialism. This theme has been present in a number of recent books on Hong Kong, such as those of Tak-wing Ngo and John Carroll, but is particularly and forcefully articulated here. Part One focuses on collaborative Colonialism from the first Opium War through to the Republican Revolution. Chapter 1 depicts the "(self-)making of the Colonial Hong Kong Chinese elite" (p. 20) during the late 19th century, examining the establishment of Tung Wah Hospital in the 1870s as a core institution in such collaboration. Chapter 2 examines English language and schooling in early Hong Kong, analyzing the various pronouncements of James Legge and showing how the newly-established educational system privileged the Hong Kong Chinese elite who learned in English, and marginalized other Chinese residents who did not - a social class exclusion very much sought by the Chinese elite, according to Law. Chapter 3 considers Hong Kong University and its founding by Frederick Lugard in the early 20th century as "a strategy by which colonizers might tap native rule and integrate it into Colonial rule" (p. 71), thereby creating common ground between the British imperial colonizers and Chinese nationalists in Hong Kong. Part Two covers the 20th century. Chapter 4 deals with the important Colonial Hong Kong intellectual Ho Kai, portraying him as having a double identity of "culturally Chinese and politically British" (p. 95). Chapter 5 considers Chinese cultural nationalism in the 1920s, and depicts how leading southbound Chinese intellectuals saw Hong Kong as "a filthy comer of an unreclaimed Chinese territory ... backward, vulgar, and colonized" (pp. 113, 115). Chapter 6 looks at the Cold War era, during which American government money funded numerous antiCommunist publications in Hong Kong. …

  • Collaborative Colonial Power: The Making of the Hong Kong Chinese [Book Review]
    China Journal, 2010
    Co-Authors: Gordon Mathews
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    Review(s) of: Collaborative Colonial Power: The Making of the Hong Kong Chinese, by Law Wing Sang, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2009. xii + 262 pp. HK$350.00/US$45.00 (hardcover), HK$195.00/US$25.00 (paperback).

Daniel Bendix - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • The Colonial present in international development? The case of German interventions in obstetric care in Tanzania
    Progress in Development Studies, 2016
    Co-Authors: Daniel Bendix
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    This article investigates whether Colonialism is alive in contemporary German development cooperation (GDC) on obstetric care in Tanzania. Drawing on archives and interviews, it compares present-day interventions to German policy in ‘German East Africa’ (GEA) at the beginning of the 20th century. It argues that contemporary development cooperation can be considered Colonial to a certain extent in that it is marked by a combination of racialization, developmentalism and trusteeship. However, Colonial Power today is fractured as German development professionals’ accounts of their work display a considerable degree of hesitancy and doubt. This article contributes to the knowledge on Colonialism and development by discerning Colonial Power in the under-researched case of GDC as well as in the context of concrete policy and practice in a particular field of intervention.

  • From Fighting Underpopulation to Curbing Population Growth: Tracing Colonial Power in German Development Interventions in Tanzania
    Postcolonial Studies, 2016
    Co-Authors: Daniel Bendix
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    This paper investigates how Colonial Power is rearticulated in policy and practice of German development cooperation in Tanzania. Drawing on archives and interviews, it analyses the emergence of interventions with regard to population control and reproductive health during Germany's colonisation of ‘German East Africa’ and compares these interventions to present-day German development assistance in Tanzania. While German policies during Colonial rule addressed ‘underpopulation’ and contemporary German development aid stresses population growth to be the problem, this paper finds that racialised, gendered discourses are interconnected with the political economy of population control in both periods. It highlights that Colonial Power in development cooperation can only be fully comprehended by tracing the continuity of Colonial discourses to material practices as well as economic interests of the Global North, and argues that critique of population politics should address population control in general – whe...

  • Colonial Power in development : tracing German interventions in population and reproductive health in Tanzania
    2012
    Co-Authors: Daniel Bendix
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    This thesis examines the impact of the Colonial past on contemporary Development. More specifically, it investigates how Colonial Power ? conceived as discourses which emerged during colonisation and their interconnectedness with the material world ? continues to shape present-day ideas and practices of Development actors from the global North that intervene in the lives of people in the global South. The Colonial legacy of German Development cooperation is under-researched, and postColonial Development Studies have yet to examine specific policies and their implementation in detail. This study focuses on German Development intervention with a focus on population and reproductive health issues in Tanzania, a former German colony.In order to investigate the influence of Colonial modes of thought and practice on contemporary Development, this thesis develops and implements the methodology of genealogical dispositif analysis. Genealogy traces the historical emergence of policies and examines their present-day persistence, while dispositif analysis is an extension of discourse analysis enabling the research of discourses and their relationship with practices, institutions, and political-economic conditions. The study thus analyses the emergence of German interventions in what is now Tanzania with regard to population and reproductive health during Germany?s colonisation of ?German East Africa? and compares these interventions to present-day German Development cooperation in Tanzania, where reproductive health is one of the focal areas.Drawing on archives, interviews, and observations in Germany and Tanzania, this research finds similarities between contemporary German policy and practice regarding population control and Colonial-era interventions. In particular, it shows how racialised, gendered discourses are connected to philanthropic legitimising strategies and the political economy of population control. In addition, policies and practices regarding obstetric care in contemporary German Development aid reflect hierarchies between Western and East African practices which are similar to those formed during Colonial rule. Since the Colonial period, East African obstetric care has been constructed as in need of catching up with German childbirth practices. In terms of how and with what effects Colonial Power is challenged in contemporary German Development cooperation, this research found that while narratives of German professionals reveal some doubt and uncertainty regarding dominant Development thinking and practice, they do not represent a fundamental threat to the persistence of Colonial Power. Colonial Power tends to take effect in the face of and despite opposition. The thesis concludes that Colonial Power continues to significantly shape present-day Development policy and practice.

Joel Wainwright - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Reading Joel Wainwright's Decolonizing Development: Colonial Power and the Maya
    Political Geography, 2010
    Co-Authors: Paul Robbins, Sarah A. Moore, Anna J. Secor, Joel Wainwright
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    It is widely acknowledged that the history of development is littered with astounding errors born of the very best of intentions. Joel Wainwright’s (2008) Decolonizing Development: Colonial Power and the Maya is a carefully crafted history of development in Belize that seeks to explore why this is so. At bottom, Wainwright argues, it is the inevitable complicity of the most high-minded practitioners of modern development with capitalism and the territorial state that makes bad things happen to good people. These practitioners include many of the targeted readers of the book, especially researchers and academics. In brief, Decolonizing Development offers a well-plotted trip through the history of the invention of a number of things that are often considered uninvented: Belize, the Maya, and milpa agriculture, among other categorically accepted realties. As such, the book is populated by explorers, academics, advocates, officials, and institutions who all participated in their creation. Wainwright fills the account with episodes where their efforts to research, develop or support the Maya ended in precisely the opposite of their intentions. Indigenous communities are more fully hedgedin by their would-be recorders and emancipators by the end of the volume than they are at the outset. Following an introduction that lays out Wainwright’s theoretical roots in Karl Marx and Gayatri Spivak, part one provides three chapters on early efforts to both colonize the lands of the Maya

  • ‘The first duties of persons living in a civilized community’: the Maya, the Church, and the Colonial state in southern Belize
    Journal of Historical Geography, 2009
    Co-Authors: Joel Wainwright
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    Abstract In recent years, historical geography has been at the forefront of new scholarship on the spatiality of Colonial Power and its complex relations with indigenous communities. This literature shows that imperial policies – emerging through state and scientific institutions, cultural practices, and capitalist ventures – required particular ways of conceptualizing, mapping, and organizing spaces and territories which transformed the geographies of indigenous communities, livelihoods, and identities. Through a close reading of archival texts from the late 19th and early 20th century, this paper examines the spatial and political relations between three groups: the Catholic Church, the British Colonial state, and the Maya communities of southern British Honduras. Differences between the Catholic Church and the British Colonial state – in their aims and approach to winning hegemony over the Q'eqchi' and Mopan Maya – were accommodated and assuaged by a tacit agreement: that the Maya must be settled in permanent communities. Colonial Power, in both its spiritual and statist modalities, was imminently geographical, and this geography comprised the common ground between Church and state in their approach to the Maya.

  • decolonizing development Colonial Power and the maya
    2008
    Co-Authors: Joel Wainwright
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    List of figures. Acknowledgements. Abbreviations. Introduction. Part I: Colonizing the Maya. 1. The territorialization of southern Belize. 2. The matter of the Maya farm system. 3. An archaeology of Mayanism. Part II: Aporias of development. 4. From Colonial to development knowledge. 5. Settling: fieldwork in the ruins of development. 6. Finishing the critique of cultural ecology. Conclusion. Bibliography. Index.

Marc Depaepe - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

Edmund James Yorke - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • The Nadir of Colonial Power in Northern Rhodesia
    Britain Northern Rhodesia and the First World War, 2020
    Co-Authors: Edmund James Yorke
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    On 2 April 1917, a terse telegram informed London Wall of a major insurrection in the Barue region of neighbouring Portuguese East Africa. A crucial half-sentence in the despatch, that the rebellion was ‘probably due to commandeering of natives by Portuguese authorities for military service’,1 brought home the potentially disastrous political consequences the rebellion might have for the Company’s own tenuous control.2 A London Wall Director, D. O. Malcolm, immediately confided to the Colonial Office, with masterly understatement, that ‘one doesn’t like native risings in one’s neighbour’s territory’.3 An official Company despatch about the crucial importance of honouring carrier contracts more accurately represented the fears of London Wall. It agreed that the rising was the direct result of the ‘commandeering of natives […] for military service’ and stressed that it was ‘vitally important to avoid the risk of similar trouble in Rhodesia’.4