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Unesco and the (One) World of Julian Huxley

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ID5827768
AuthorsGlenda Sluga (0000-0002-2481-3394, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume21
Issue3
Pages393-418
Publication date2010-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of world history (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1045-6007 • E-ISSN: 1527-8050
PublisherWorld History Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/jwh.2010.0016
OpenAlexW3125495513
LanguageEN
Citations received55
References cited17

This article investigates the idea of cosmopolitanism associated with internationalism and the origins of UNESCO at the end of World War II. In the first few years of UNESCO's operation, delegates and functionaries portrayed "world citizenship" as the path to permanent world peace and as a necessary step in the evolution of human society from tribes to nations, from national consciousness to "one world." A key figure in that history was Julian Huxley, UNESCO's first director-general. This article argues that Huxley's conception of cosmopolitan internationalism provides an important link between the history of postwar international organizations and a long nineteenth-century vision of historical and political progress and of imperial policies and practices

Cosmopolitanism · First world war · Global citizenship · Internationalism · National consciousness · World history · Global Education and Multiculturalism · International Development and Aid · Socioeconomic Development in Asia

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