Diplomatic Training and Spaces of Anticolonial Worldmaking

IF 3.6 1区 社会学 Q1 GEOGRAPHY
Antipode Pub Date : 2025-02-13 DOI:10.1111/anti.70001
Ruth Craggs, Jonathan Harris, Fiona McConnell
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Focusing on training for African diplomats from newly independent countries in Cameroon, Kenya, and Zimbabwe, this paper makes the case for spaces of diplomatic training as sites for anticolonial “worldmaking” (Getachew 2019; Worldmaking After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination). Recent scholarship has highlighted the value of African leaders’ visions but largely overlooked the actors, spaces, and practices through which these visions were to be enacted. Drawing on archival evidence from Africa, Europe, and North America, and oral history interviews, we argue that worldmaking projects were grounded, learnt, and transformed in places such as the classrooms and study tours we explore. Whilst many accounts of anticolonial and subaltern geopolitical projects focus on grassroots activism beyond and against the state, we argue we also need to attend to the contributions of those—like African diplomats in training—who critiqued Eurocentric and colonial international relations from subaltern positions whilst remaining privileged within the context of the postcolonial state.

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外交训练与反殖民世界建构的空间
本文以喀麦隆、肯尼亚和津巴布韦新独立国家的非洲外交官培训为重点,论证了外交培训空间作为反殖民主义 "世界缔造 "场所的作用(Getachew 2019;《帝国之后的世界缔造》:The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination)。近期的学术研究强调了非洲领导人愿景的价值,但在很大程度上忽视了这些愿景赖以实现的参与者、空间和实践。利用来自非洲、欧洲和北美的档案证据以及口述历史访谈,我们认为,创造世界的项目是在我们所探讨的课堂和考察旅行等场所立足、学习和转变的。尽管许多关于反殖民主义和次等地缘政治项目的论述都侧重于超越和反对国家的草根行动主义,但我们认为,我们还需要关注那些从次等立场批判欧洲中心主义和殖民主义国际关系,同时在后殖民国家背景下保持特权的人--如正在接受培训的非洲外交官--的贡献。
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期刊介绍: Antipode has published dissenting scholarship that explores and utilizes key geographical ideas like space, scale, place, borders and landscape. It aims to challenge dominant and orthodox views of the world through debate, scholarship and politically-committed research, creating new spaces and envisioning new futures. Antipode welcomes the infusion of new ideas and the shaking up of old positions, without being committed to just one view of radical analysis or politics.
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