Book contents
- Colonial Internationalism and the Governmentality of Empire, 1893–1982
- Global and International History
- Colonial Internationalism and the Governmentality of Empire, 1893–1982
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 “More Beautiful than the Nationalist Thought”?
- 2 A Transcolonial Governmentality Sui Generis
- 3 Politics of Comparison
- 4 Cultivating the Myth of Transcolonial Progress
- 5 The Adatization of Islamic Law and Muslim Codes of Development
- 6 Creating an “Anti-Geneva Bloc” and the Question of Representivity
- 7 Inventing Fascist Eurafrica at the Volta Congress
- 8 False Authenticity
- 9 “That Has Been Our Program for Fifty Years”
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Conclusion
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 January 2022
Book contents
- Colonial Internationalism and the Governmentality of Empire, 1893–1982
- Global and International History
- Colonial Internationalism and the Governmentality of Empire, 1893–1982
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 “More Beautiful than the Nationalist Thought”?
- 2 A Transcolonial Governmentality Sui Generis
- 3 Politics of Comparison
- 4 Cultivating the Myth of Transcolonial Progress
- 5 The Adatization of Islamic Law and Muslim Codes of Development
- 6 Creating an “Anti-Geneva Bloc” and the Question of Representivity
- 7 Inventing Fascist Eurafrica at the Volta Congress
- 8 False Authenticity
- 9 “That Has Been Our Program for Fifty Years”
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
It is therefore the conclusion and the message of this book that colonialism is not reformable, as the ICI pretended it was, but remained pretty much the same between 1890 and 1950. The ICI is the smoking gun that proves the immobility of colonialism. To overcome colonialism and the global inequality caused by it, it needed more than a reform. As Aimé Césaire put it: “Real decolonization is revolutionary or inexistent.”3 The ICI/INCIDI did everything possible to avoid such revolutionary decolonization.
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