Disconsolate Empires: French, British and Belgian Military Involvement in Post-Colonial sub-Saharan Africa

Rouvez, Alain; Amin, Julius A.

doi:10.1080/03612759.1995.9949206

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“…These binary oppositions, constructed by the Occidental, have been explored in detail by Bhabha (1990), Spivak (1998) and Said (1978) and form the lens through which the colonial encounter between colonizer and colonized is synthesized. This vexed relationship has been theorized through various perspectives, such as feminist (Gafaiti 1996;Yegenoglu 1998;Dobie 2001), psychoanalytical (Fuss 1994;Pellegrini 1997) and political (Fanon 1961;Rouvez 1994;Moore-Gilbert 1997) to name a few, and is understood to involve a complicated dance of subjectivity and interpellation. For example, Conklin (1997) and Spurr (1993) discuss the cultural factors involved in French colonialism and the nineteenth-century development of a world view that promoted the notion of Western supremacy and the need for redeeming the East.…”

Section: Postcolonialism: a Reviewmentioning

confidence: 98%

Sneakers and street culture: A postcolonial analysis of marginalized cultural consumption

Brace-Govan

Burgh-Woodman

2008

Consumption Markets & Culture

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It would be valuable to consumer research to increase understanding of marginalized communities and their consumption experiences. This paper advances postcolonial analysis as useful in this respect. A review of postcolonialism shows a perspective that encompasses the experience of the subordinated and marginalized. Hybridity, an alternative version, the self/other divide and power of both the colonizing and colonized positions are key concepts in this lens. Shifting from the dominating view of imperialism, a postcolonial oeuvre offers a nuanced stance that gives voice to the history of the Other and recognition to their stories. Variations within this stream of theory are drawn out and the key aim of this paper is to explicate the value of the postcolonial view to consumer research. To this end two illustrative case studies of postcolonial African experience are offered: one French and one American. Sneaker consumption in African-American street culture traces themes of social alienation, self-identity, criminality and fanatical consumption through the acquisition of sneakers. This experience is contrasted with the experience of postcolonial African communities in France who use other forms of consumption to define their street identity. We conclude that a more nuanced reading of sneaker consumption is available through postcolonialism shedding new light on interpreting symbolic consumption, meaning making and identity expression in traditionally marginalized groups.

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Section: Postcolonialism: a Reviewmentioning

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Sneakers and street culture: A postcolonial analysis of marginalized cultural consumption

Brace-Govan

Burgh-Woodman

2008

Consumption Markets & Culture

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“…57, 62). Similarly, Britain intervened 17 times in 15 former colonies in Africa, the Middle East and Asia in the 1960s, while in the 1970s her military interventions concentrated on Sub‐Saharan Africa (van Wingen and Tillema , p. 294; Rouvez , p. 26). At the same time, the other Western powers largely refrained from interfering, unless a co‐ordinated action was explicitly requested (Schraeder , pp.…”

Section: Foreign Interventions and Regime Change In The 20th Centurymentioning

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An economic theory of foreign interventions and regime change

Bonfatti

2017

Canadian J of Economics

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I construct a theory of foreign interventions in which a home country's main trade partner may influence the course of regime change. The foreign country intervenes in support of the group that draws the largest gains from trade, since such a group is willing to concede most in trade agreements. But interventions are more than offset by the domestic political system, which supports in power the group that concedes least (economic nationalism). I allow for geopolitical competition between the main trade partner and a second foreign country as well as for domestic ideological preferences over the two and look at how geopolitical competition interacts with the economic mechanism described above. My results help interpret some of the patterns of Western interventions in the 20th century and the role of economic nationalism in regime change. Furthermore, they help explain why the Cold War strengthened the West's preference for incumbent elites, even when the oppositions did not have a strong communist ideology. I provide detailed historical evidence in favour of my arguments.

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“…It marked the end of British military rule in Africa'. 29 It is certainly possible to view this as a final fling of empire, especially in Kenya, which had gained independence only weeks before, and where British troops were still stationed. Other external powers, particularly France, intervened militarily in the continent more frequently.…”

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Operation Binnacle: British plans for military intervention against a 1965 coup in Kenya

Cullen¹

2016

The International History Review

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In April 1965, the rumour of a potential Kenyan coup was brought to British attention. This was a moment of raised tensions in the government of President Jomo Kenyatta, who secretly asked the British government for a military commitment to support his government if a coup was attempted by Kenyan Vice President Oginga Odinga. The British military responded by making an extensive military plan to intervene, code-named Operation Binnacle. They sent ships to Mombasa and put troops on alert. This article assesses these plans as a case study of the logic, and limits, of British military interventionism in the years after decolonization. It highlights the importance of studying plans, even when not carried out, and of taking seriously the attitudes and fears of contemporaries. Although a coup was highly unlikely, British reactions are revealing of their concerns about independent Kenya, including possible Soviet involvement. Operation Binnacle was a serious British response to the threat, as they saw it, which a coup would cause to their interests. These were extensive enough that the British government was prepared to intervene militarily, during a brief moment when military interventionism in Africa was still seriously considered as a possible policy choice.

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Disconsolate Empires: French, British and Belgian Military Involvement in Post-Colonial sub-Saharan Africa

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Sneakers and street culture: A postcolonial analysis of marginalized cultural consumption

Sneakers and street culture: A postcolonial analysis of marginalized cultural consumption

An economic theory of foreign interventions and regime change

Operation Binnacle: British plans for military intervention against a 1965 coup in Kenya

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