| ID | 124134 |
| Title Proper | Intervention and colonial-modernity |
| Other Title Information | decolonising the Italy/Ethiopia conflict through Psalms 68:31 |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Shilliam, Robbie |
| Publication | 2013. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | In this article I utilise the editors' conceptual frame of sovereignty/intervention/transnational social forces to argue that the relationship that ensues between these phenomena has to be understood in colonial-modern - rather than modern - terms. I thereby argue that intervention is a distinctive technology of colonial-modern rule, specifically, one that erects and polices the difference between sovereign and quasi-sovereign entities via a standard of civilisation. Additionally, I argue that transnational social forces struggle - cognitively, socially, and politically - over the upholding or refuting of this standard; and in this struggle, some might even defend particular sovereign entities against colonial interventions. I demonstrate my argument by explicating the global colonial context of the Italy/Ethiopia conflict in 1935-6, the nadir of the interwar crisis. I 'decolonise' received interpretations of the conflict through the heuristic of two differing catechisms of Psalms 68:31 proffered at the time: one, invoking a civilising mission of Africans; the other, invoking a project of self-liberation by Africans. |
| `In' analytical Note | Review of International Studies Vol.39, No.5; 2013: p.1131-1148 |
| Journal Source | Review of International Studies Vol.39, No.5; 2013: p.1131-1148 |
| Key Words | Roberto Mussolini ; Italy ; 1930s ; History ; Sovereignty ; Intervention ; Colonial-Modern ; War ; Conflicts ; International Relations ; International Politics ; Europe |