A common situation? Canadian technical advisors and popular internationalism in Tanzania, 1961–1981

IF 0.9 3区社会学 Q2 AREA STUDIES

Journal of Eastern African Studies Pub Date : 2021-03-21 DOI:10.1080/17531055.2021.1904704

Will Langford

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ABSTRACT In the 1960s and 1970s, technical advisors participated in postcolonial development efforts and popular internationalism. This article addresses the politics of technical assistance as an entry point for exploring the wider shared histories of Tanzania and Canada. It shows how Canadian advisors reflected on ujamaa, race, and their relationships with Tanzanians. And it charts how lived experiences shaped their commitments abroad as well as back at home. Insisting that technical assistance is part of Tanzanian transnational history, the essay argues that Canadian advisors were divided on the politics of poverty. They held liberal and left internationalist perspectives, two overarching ways of understanding global structures that were opposed as well as internally varied. The first vision presumed that developmental work had mutualistic benefits within global capitalism. The second stressed solidarities for a building an anti-imperialist world and, in different ways, involved social democrats, New Leftists, and Black Canadian and Indigenous activists. Debates eventually led to a left-leaning attempt to rethink technical assistance.

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常见的情况?1961-1981年坦桑尼亚的加拿大技术顾问和流行国际主义

在20世纪60年代和70年代，技术顾问参与了后殖民发展努力和流行的国际主义。本文将技术援助的政治作为探索坦桑尼亚和加拿大更广泛的共同历史的切入点。它展示了加拿大顾问如何思考乌干达、种族以及他们与坦桑尼亚人的关系。它还描绘了生活经历如何影响他们在国外和国内的承诺。这篇文章坚持认为技术援助是坦桑尼亚跨国历史的一部分，并认为加拿大顾问在贫困政治问题上存在分歧。他们持有自由主义和左翼国际主义的观点，这是理解全球结构的两种主要方式，它们是对立的，也是内部变化的。第一种观点认为，发展工作在全球资本主义内部具有互惠互利的好处。第二次强调了建立一个反帝国主义世界的团结，并以不同的方式参与了社会民主主义者、新左派、加拿大黑人和土著活动家。辩论最终导致左派试图重新思考技术援助。

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期刊介绍： Journal of Eastern African Studies is an international publication of the British Institute in Eastern Africa, published four times each year. It aims to promote fresh scholarly enquiry on the region from within the humanities and the social sciences, and to encourage work that communicates across disciplinary boundaries. It seeks to foster inter-disciplinary analysis, strong comparative perspectives, and research employing the most significant theoretical or methodological approaches for the region.