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Colonial imaginaries and postcolonial transformations: exiles, bases, beaches / Kothari, Uma; Wilkinson, Rorden

Wilkinson, Rorden	Journal Article
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2010.

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This article draws on Edward Said's notion of 'imaginary geographies' to explore how representations of small island states enabled particular colonial interventions to take place in the Indian Ocean region and to show how these representations are currently being reworked to support development strategies. It examines how particular colonial imaginaries justified and legitimised spatially and temporally extended transactions before focusing on two examples of forced population movements: British colonial policy of forcibly exiling anti-colonial nationalists and political 'undesirables' from other parts of the empire to Seychelles; and the use of islands in the region as strategic military bases, requiring the compulsory relocation of populations. While a colonising legacy pervades contemporary representations of these societies, such depictions are not immutable but can be, and are being, appropriated and reworked through various forms of situated agency. Thus an 'island imaginary' has become an important cultural and economic resource for small island states, most notably in the development of a tourist industry. The key challenge for vulnerable peripheral states is to create new forms of representations that contest and replace tenacious colonialist depictions to provide greater opportunities for sustained development.

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Maldives ; Island ; Exiles ; Colonial Imaginaries ; Postcolonial Transformations

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Trade, consumption and development alliances: the historical legacy of the Empire Marketing Board poster campaign / Kothari, Uma

Kothari, Uma	Journal Article
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2014.

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This article examines the historical legacy of contemporary development alliances through an analysis of the British government's Empire Marketing Board poster campaign from 1926 to 1933. The primary aim of these posters was to instil in the British public a preference for buying empire-grown goods and the significance of their role as consumers in maintaining the Empire. By conveying messages of a common humanity and invoking a visual language of interdependence between Britain and its colonies, the posters attempted to open up new connections and create new moral communities across distance in ways that are not dissimilar to fair trade campaigns today.

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Trade ; Alliances ; Colonialism ; Consumers ; Empire Marketing Board

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