Friendship in World Politics: George Padmore, Nancy Cunard, and Dorothy Pizer at the End of Empire

IF 3.3 1区社会学 Q1 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

International Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2026-09-11 DOI:10.1093/isq/sqag068

Isabelle Napier

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Abstracts This article develops an historical account of friendship as a political relation central to the twentieth-century project of decolonization through an analysis of the writings and political relationships of Trinidadian Pan-African intellectual-activist George Padmore. Towards the end of his life, Padmore thanked “selected allies” and “friends” for their anti-racist and anti-colonial agitation. He conceptualized a political relation of friendship between colonized and colonizer as a potential aid to ending imperial and racialized subordination and domination. Drawing on archival sources, I recover Padmore’s concept of friendship together with its practice by two White women allies: Anglo-American writer Nancy Cunard and English stenographer Dorothy Pizer. Friendship emerges from the situated theorizing and practice of these three intellectual-activists as an always aspirational, potentially transformative, yet inherently asymmetrical political relation. Grounded in difference, anti-colonial friendship was a political practice that unsettled racial hierarchies in the everyday and aimed ultimately to end empire.

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世界政治中的友谊：乔治·帕德莫尔、南希·库纳德和多萝西·皮泽在帝国的终结

本文通过对特立尼达泛非知识分子活动家乔治·帕德莫尔的著作和政治关系的分析，发展了友谊作为20世纪非殖民化项目核心的政治关系的历史描述。在他生命的最后，帕德莫尔感谢“选定的盟友”和“朋友”，感谢他们反种族主义和反殖民主义的鼓动。他将被殖民者和殖民者之间的政治友谊关系概念化，作为结束帝国主义和种族化的从属和统治的潜在援助。根据档案资料，我恢复了帕德莫尔的友谊概念以及两位白人女性盟友的实践：英美作家南希·库纳德和英国速记员多萝西·皮泽。友谊从这三位知识分子的理论和实践中脱颖而出，作为一种始终充满抱负的、潜在的变革性的、但本质上不对称的政治关系。基于差异，反殖民友谊是一种政治实践，在日常生活中动摇种族等级，最终目的是结束帝国。

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