Round Table Conference Geographies | Buch

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"The Round Table Conference (RTC) met over three sessions in London between 1930-1932, its aim being to sketch out the next stage of India's constitutional advance within the British empire. Although it led directly to the Government of India Act of 1935, the conference is unanimously read as a failure. It failed to win over the Indian National Congress, it failed to reconcile communal demands, and it failed to entice the Princely States into immediate federation. As such, the RTC features in neither histories of imperial nor international conferences, nor is it acknowledged as a predecessor of the wave of decolonial conferences that began in the 1950s. This book argues that the RTC demands serious attention as a vital site of Indian and imperial politics in the interwar years. It explores four conference geographies, which balance an attention to imperial governmentality with evidence of "diplomatic subaltern" labour. The role of dominion, dyarchy and community are explored as "imaginary geographies". The conference method, staff and its palace locations expose conference "infrastructures". Spaces of official hospitality, socialising and domestic networking highlight London as a "conference city". And, finally, the "representational spaces" of the conference are read through petitions and protests, and the ways in which the conference was represented as a failure. The book concludes by asking who gained through this representation and by showing what we gain through exploring the conference as a teeming political, social and material space"--

Über den Autor

Stephen Legg is Professor of Historical Geography at University of Nottingham, England. He is a specialist on interwar colonial India with a particular interest in the politics of urban space within imperial and international frames. He has analyzed these spaces and frames through drawing upon theoretical approaches from memory scholarship, postcolonialism, political theory and governmentality studies. He published the co-edited volume (with Deana Heath) South Asian Governmentalities: Michel Foucault and the Question of Postcolonial Orderings with the Press in 2018. Some of his other publications are Spaces of Colonialism: Delhi's Urban Governmentalities (2007), Prostitution and the Ends of Empire: Scale, Governmentalities, and Interwar India (2014) and the edited collection Spatiality, Sovereignty and Carl Schmitt: Geographies of the Nomos (2011).

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; Note on Conclusions, Spellings and Abbreviations; 1. Introduction: Squaring Round Tables; Part I. Geographical Imaginations: 2. Dominion and Dyarchy: The Absent Presences; 3. Community: A Nation and a Table Divided; Part II. Conference Infrastructures: 4. The Conference Method: Between Intention and Desire; 5. Staffing the Conference: Experts and Subaltern Diplomats; 6. The Speech Factory: Palace Materials and Communication Technologies; Part III. The Conference City: 7. A Hospitable City?: Official Socialising; 8. Social London: Residing and Dining; 9. At Homes: Political Hostessing and Homemaking; Part IV. Representations: 10. Petitions and Protests: The Page and the Street; 11. Failure: Ending and Failing; 12. Conclusion: Squaring Round Tables; Notes; References; Index.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2024
Fachbereich:	Regionalgeschichte
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Buch
Inhalt:	Gebunden
ISBN-13:	9781009215312
ISBN-10:	1009215310
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Legg, Stephen
Hersteller:	Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	235 x 157 x 29 mm
Von/Mit:	Stephen Legg
Erscheinungsdatum:	10.12.2024
Gewicht:	0,82 kg

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