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Conflicting worldviews, mutual incomprehension: the production of intelligence across Whitehall and the management of subversion during decolonisation, 1944-1966 / Davey, Gregor

Davey, Gregor	Journal Article
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2014.

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Writing on British intelligence has tended to concentrate on the collection machinery in specific local contexts, the development of the Joint Intelligence Committee and the use of intelligence product by government. The emphasis has been on the optimisation of the intelligence bureaucracy in the face of Colonial Office intransigence. What this analysis largely leaves out, however, is a description of the culture and practices of the Colonial Office as it attempted to work with various colonial governments. Instead there is a tendency to overemphasise the rational nature of the bureaucratic changes in Whitehall and the contribution of MI5 and MI6 in the maintenance of security in the colonies. This article seeks to address these oversights by examining the divisions between the Colonial Office and the rest of the Whitehall intelligence machinery and show how counter-subversion remained a challenge to administrators both before and after the emergence of the Joint Intelligence Committee system.

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Intelligence ; Bureaucracy ; Organisational change ; Joint Intelligence Committee ; Colonial Office ; Whitehall

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ID: 171188

Emergency communal labor and gender in Central Province during the Mau Mau war in Kenya, 1953–1960 / Okia, Opolot

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This article examines the Kenya Colony administration’s use of communal labor as a punitive, coercive labor practice during the Mau Mau rebellion of the 1950s. Faced with the Mau Mau rebellion, the administration transformed the preexisting communal labor system and began to use it on an unprecedented scale as a form of collective punishment against the mainly Kikuyu African civilian populations thought to be in collusion with the Mau Mau guerrillas. Communal labor, which was previously justified as a building block of development and used widely throughout the colony as cooperative village labor, now became an aspect of the punitive “rehabilitation” of the Kikuyu populace in Central Province. Although colonial officials directed Emergency communal labor against all of the African civilians living in the rural areas of Central Province thought to be in tacit support of Mau Mau, women were the corps of most of the communal labor work parties. As a result, this article examines the role of gender in the British administration’s wielding of communal labor as a punitive measure in Central Province during this time period. This window into the machinations of communal forced labor also sheds more light on the wider issue of gender and forced labor during the colonial period in Africa.

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Women ; ILO ; Rehabilitation ; Colonial Office ; State of Emergency ; Mau Mau ;
Communal Labor ; Forced Labor Convention ; Kikuyu ; Villagization ; Central Province

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Pedigrees of post-colonial governors 1966-2003 / Taylor, David

Taylor, David	Journal Article
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2006.

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Political System ; United Kingdom ; Colonial Office ; Governors

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