International Status in the Shadow of Empire

Storr, Cait

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“…But all of this paled in comparison to Nauru, which was estimated to contain as much as 112 million tons. 98 But Australian internationalists' support for the mandates system was also ideological: specifically, it upheld their ideas of whiteness. In many ways, the League mandates regime was perfectly compatible with white supremacy.…”

Section: Australian Internationalists and The Mandatesmentioning

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White Internationalism and the League of Nations Movement in Interwar Australia

Knaap

2023

Journal of Global History

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Popular support for the League of Nations spread around the world in the interwar period but it did not spread evenly. Instead, it was concentrated in white-majority countries: both in Europe and beyond in the form of settler societies around the world. This article explores the relationship between the League movement and white supremacy in one such community: Australia. Citizens in that country combined their allegiance to the League with their beliefs in white supremacy: about the need to restrict immigration through the ‘White Australia’ policy; about the rationale of them ruling over non-white peoples in the territories they held under League ‘mandate’; and about their treatment of Indigenous Australians. In short, they were ‘white internationalists’. Australia’s white internationalists were relatively few. But they reveal a global history of popular white internationalism. Interwar Australians might have been some of the most blatant white internationalists but they were far from the only ones.

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White Internationalism and the League of Nations Movement in Interwar Australia

Knaap

2023

Journal of Global History

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“…The original answers to the questionnaires on indigenous law from the island of Nauru, on which Kohler bases his account, were sent to the German Imperial Colonial Office (Reichskolonialamt) by station chief Ferdinand Jung (Jung 1897;Storr 2020). They tell a slightly different story of not just land but rather nature.…”

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Formative encounters: Colonial data collection on land and law in German Micronesia

Echterhölter

2021

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Argument Data collections are a hallmark of nineteenth-century administrative knowledge making, and they were by no means confined to Europe. All colonial empires transferred and translated these techniques of serialised and quantified information gathering to their dominions overseas. The colonial situation affected the encounters underlying vital statistics, enquête methods and land surveying. In this paper, two of those data collections will be investigated—a survey on land and a survey on indigenous law, both conducted around 1910 on the Micronesian island of Pohnpei, which had fallen under German colonial influence a decade earlier. Strikingly, there are no enumerators or envoys of the state visiting the doorsteps of Pohnpei. To facilitate the data collection on homesteads, the whole population of the island was called upon to measure their respective plots of land themselves, without resorting to certified land surveyors. The preserved cadastral lists and spreadsheets testify to a rather peculiar contact between the colonizing administration and the colonized peoples. I argue that the production of data made encounters necessary, which are best observed though a methodological focus on data practices. I argue, furthermore, that the Pohnpeians were prompted during the surveys to define their homestead in new terms. This did not only entail new two-dimensional plots but also a new regime of private property. The change in the legal concept can be seen as a continuation of colonial violence by other means, given that it happened in the aftermath of the defeated Pohnpei Rebellion. The argument of the paper is, therefore, that data collection can have formative effects on society, and that measurement and quantified information are often, as Witold Kula argued, a scene of conflict. At its core, the installation of these metric regimes signified a change in patterns of justification, resource management and the unwritten constitution of the Pacific island.

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Self-Determination

Hassall

2023

United Nations University Series on Regionalism

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International Status in the Shadow of Empire

Cited by 31 publications

References 258 publications

White Internationalism and the League of Nations Movement in Interwar Australia

White Internationalism and the League of Nations Movement in Interwar Australia

Formative encounters: Colonial data collection on land and law in German Micronesia

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