Unscrambling Africa: From Eurafrican Technopolitics to the Fascist New Order

IF 0.7 2区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY
Andrew Denning
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Abstract

This article examines how German technocrats created revisionist plans to “unscramble” Africa in the 1930s. In particular, it studies how their schemes emerged from the transnational Eurafrican movement in the interwar period. The mixture of technical expertise and imperial ideologies in Eurafrican planning made Eurafricanism remarkably elastic in political terms, connecting liberal democratic and fascist states in the interwar era. Bureaucrats and colonial thinkers in Nazi Germany helped produce such projects, but also oriented them toward the realization of fascist imperial goals, using Eurafricanism as a tool of territorial revisionism. As a result, the technopolitics of African infrastructure development both depended on and informed the knowledge and ideology that defined fascist geopolitics. Although these blueprints never came to fruition, they point to the importance of spatial categories and technopolitical actors in the ideology and practice of National Socialism. Further, Nazi planners’ engagement with Eurafricanism indicates how interwar imperialism connected Nazi Germany to other imperial powers in Europe.
解读非洲:从欧亚技术政治到法西斯新秩序
这篇文章探讨了德国技术官僚如何在20世纪30年代制定修正主义计划来“解读”非洲。特别是,它研究了他们的计划是如何从两次世界大战期间的跨国欧亚运动中产生的。欧洲-非洲规划中技术专长和帝国意识形态的混合使欧洲-非洲主义在政治上具有显著的弹性,将两次世界大战时期的自由民主国家和法西斯国家联系在一起。纳粹德国的官僚和殖民思想家帮助制定了这样的项目,但也将其导向法西斯帝国目标的实现,将欧洲非洲主义作为领土修正主义的工具。因此,非洲基础设施发展的技术政治既依赖于定义法西斯地缘政治的知识和意识形态,也为其提供了信息。尽管这些蓝图从未实现,但它们指出了空间类别和技术政治行为者在国家社会主义意识形态和实践中的重要性。此外,纳粹策划者与欧洲非洲主义的接触表明,两次大战之间的帝国主义是如何将纳粹德国与欧洲其他帝国大国联系起来的。
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Modern History is recognized as the leading American journal for the study of European intellectual, political, and cultural history. The Journal"s geographical and temporal scope-the history of Europe since the Renaissance-makes it unique: the JMH explores not only events and movements in specific countries, but also broader questions that span particular times and places.
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