Jordanna Bailkin
Biographic Data
| ID | 209432 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jordanna Bailkin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jordanna |
| FAMILY NAME | Bailkin |
| SIGNATURE | BAILKIN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Shaul Bar-Haim, The Maternalists: Psychoanalysis, Motherhood, and the British Welfare State
On Camps, past and Present’
This article reflects on the experience of writing a book about the history of refugee camps in Britain during the global refugee crisis. It explores the relationship between camps of the 20th and 21st centuries, and considers the role of historians in participating in debates about contemporary political issues
Making Camp
This chapter surveys the diverse spaces that refugees inhabited in Britain, from military bases to stately homes to prisons. It traces the varied prehistories of the refugee camp, from detention camps in South Africa to plague and famine camps in India, and internment camps in Europe. Specific elements of camp architecture—from barbed wire to the Nissen hut—gave rise to unique physical and social experiences. The built environment of refugee camp…
Epilogue
This chapter explores the diverse fates and futures of refugee camps. What happened to the camps after the refugees left? What remains of these camps today? This chapter charts the chaotic and incomplete process of camp closures. It considers how these camps have been remembered (or forgotten), and reflects on the multiple—and massive—uses of encampment today. Although refugee camps in Britain were supposed to plan their own obsolescence, they we…
Interlude
The Interlude narrates the diverse and often harrowing stories of how refugees arrived in Britain during the twentieth century. But it also questions the fetish of arrival that characterizes many refugee stories. Scenes of arrival (the trains of the Kindertransporte , the small boats from Vietnam rescued by British ships)—iconic though they have become—cut the story of refugees short. They uphold the fiction that each situation was the result of …
Hard Core
This chapter addresses how camps functioned as sites of rebellion and daily acts of resistance. As camps transitioned from military to civilian control, they developed conflicting regimes of discipline with competing definitions of physical and political freedom. Camp authorities and refugees struggled to determine whether refugees could enter and leave the camps freely, and if they could choose where and when to settle. The chapter considers how…
Feeding and Hungering
This chapter examines the fraught debates about feeding refugees in camps, including the frequent use of hunger strikes. Refugee camps brought new foods and ways of feeding that formed an important constellation of conflict and community. For camp authorities, the work of mass feeding sparked debates about whether camps aided or obstructed the preservation of “minority” cultures. Many refugees perceived food as a crucial reminder of what they had…
Unsettled: Refugee Camps and the Making of Multicultural Britain
Today, no one thinks of Britain as a land of camps. Instead, camps seem to happen “elsewhere,” from Greece to Palestine to the global South. Yet over the course of the twentieth century, dozens of British refugee camps housed hundreds of thousands of Belgians, Jews, Basques, Poles, Hungarians, Anglo-Egyptians, Ugandan Asians, and Vietnamese. “Refugee camps” in Britain were never only for refugees. Refugees shared space with Britons who had been d…
Enoch Powell and the Making of Postcolonial Britain, by Camilla Schofield
From 1968 to 1971, Enoch Powell collected thousands of pieces of evidence—a vast assemblage of letters, reports, and newspaper clippings—for a file on what he called ‘The Thing’: episodes of social and political unrest that ranged from industrial militancy and student protest in England to violence in Northern Ireland, and Black Power in Detroit. As Camilla Schofield notes in her riveting new biography of Powell, this file (housed now with Powell…
Erik Linstrum. Ruling Minds: Psychology in the British Empire
Could it be that social scientists—and scientists of the mind, in particular—are not as evil and collusive as we have come to think? Erik Linstrum’s highly accomplished first book about the history of psychology and empire transcends any simple morality tale of heroes and villains, offering instead a compelling and nuanced portrait of the vexed politics of expertise in an imperial age. Linstrum begins with a paradox: “how a field of expertise [ps…
Mathew Thomson. Lost Freedom: The Landscape of the Child and the British Post-War Settlement
Much in Mathew Thomson's sophisticated new book rests on the assumption that the contemporary reader (and parent) will be unnerved by the images clustered in its first chapter: that is, of boys and girls playing, entirely unsupervised and unfettered by adults, in Britain's urban landscape. As Thomson puts it, the simple social fact that children used to occupy the streets of our cities—and no longer do—is the premise for this book. So, where did …
Where Did the Empire Go? Archives and Decolonization in Britain
The Sounds of Independence? Lessons from Africa and Beyond at the Transcription Centre Archive
Indian Yellow: Making and Breaking the Imperial Palette
The Afterlife of Empire
â Quietly dazzling. . . . In this gripping account of welfareâ s postcolonial history, Jordanna Bailkin throws the archives wide open and invites us to walk through them with new eyesâ and with renewed appreciation for the intimate connections between empire and metropole in the making of contemporary Britain. The Afterlife of Empire challenges us to reimagine how we think and teach the twentieth century in Britain and beyond.â â Antoinette Burto…
The Postcolonial Family? West African Children, Private Fostering, and the British State
Leaving Home: The Politics of Deportation in Postwar Britain
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Ideas in Things: Fugitive Meaning in the Victorian Novel , by Elaine Freedgood
The Boot and the Spleen: When Was Murder Possible in British India
Could Britons in India commit murder? More precisely, could they be prosecuted and sentenced for doing so? As these epigraphs suggest, the Raj was deeply preoccupied with elaborating minute taxonomies of violence and death. In a variety of ways, British violence toward indigenes was made an object of policy initiatives by the Government of India. Defining violence, both indigenous and foreign, was one key task of the Raj, along with clarifying th…
The Rule of Freedom: Liberalism and the Modern City
Color Problems: Work, Pathology, and Perception in Modern Britain
This article explores the historical relationship between scientific research and labor management by investigating the state supervision of color perception in British workers (1870s-1920s). Whereas eighteenth-century scientific writers had described color blindness as an individual idiosyncrasy, color blindness was interpreted in the late nineteenth century as a social contaminant. As multiple sites of labor and industry were saturated with col…
The Place of Liberalism
here was liberalism? From the liberal point of view, this is almost certainly the wrong question to ask. As Uday Singh Mehta notes in his provocative study, Liberalism and Empire (1999), the universalist principles of nineteenth-century liberalism promoted a denial of place in liberal political theory, a purposeful neglect of the significance of territory (120). Liberal thinkers embraced the concept of evolution in time, emphasizing that individu…
Making Faces: Tattooed Women and Colonial Regimes
This article explores a criminal case in late-nineteenth-century Upper Burma, in which a British police officer named Chisholm was accused of forcibly tattooing the face of his Burmese mistress, Mah Gnee. The case is discussed with regard to the histories of punitive and decorative tattooing in pre-colonial and colonial South Asia, as well as British anxieties about the occupation of Burma. The article then analyzes the links between the body pol…
Indian Yellow: Making and Breaking the Imperial Palette
This article examines the economics and politics of the pigments that British artists used in order to depict non-white subjects and thus attempts to begin to reconstruct the palette of empire. In analyzing the origins, popularity, and disuse of one pigment (that is, Indian yellow) that had particular relevance for painting Indian subjects, I look at the intersection of material culture and imperial politics. The process of visually representing …
Radical Conservations: The Problem with the London Museum
Radical History Review - 2002, Issue 84
The Boot and the Spleen: When Was Murder Possible in British India
Could Britons in India commit murder? More precisely, could they be prosecuted and sentenced for doing so? As these epigraphs suggest, the Raj was deeply preoccupied with elaborating minute taxonomies of violence and death. In a variety of ways, British violence toward indigenes was made an object of policy initiatives by the Government of India. Defining violence, both indigenous and foreign, was one key task of the Raj, along with clarifying th…
Indian Yellow: Making and Breaking the Imperial Palette
This article examines the economics and politics of the pigments that British artists used in order to depict non-white subjects and thus attempts to begin to reconstruct the palette of empire. In analyzing the origins, popularity, and disuse of one pigment (that is, Indian yellow) that had particular relevance for painting Indian subjects, I look at the intersection of material culture and imperial politics. The process of visually representing …
The Postcolonial Family? West African Children, Private Fostering, and the British State
Leaving Home: The Politics of Deportation in Postwar Britain
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Making Faces: Tattooed Women and Colonial Regimes
This article explores a criminal case in late-nineteenth-century Upper Burma, in which a British police officer named Chisholm was accused of forcibly tattooing the face of his Burmese mistress, Mah Gnee. The case is discussed with regard to the histories of punitive and decorative tattooing in pre-colonial and colonial South Asia, as well as British anxieties about the occupation of Burma. The article then analyzes the links between the body pol…
Radical Conservations: The Problem with the London Museum
Radical History Review - 2002, Issue 84
The Sounds of Independence? Lessons from Africa and Beyond at the Transcription Centre Archive
The Place of Liberalism
here was liberalism? From the liberal point of view, this is almost certainly the wrong question to ask. As Uday Singh Mehta notes in his provocative study, Liberalism and Empire (1999), the universalist principles of nineteenth-century liberalism promoted a denial of place in liberal political theory, a purposeful neglect of the significance of territory (120). Liberal thinkers embraced the concept of evolution in time, emphasizing that individu…
Picturing Feminism, Selling Liberalism: The Case of the Disappearing Holbein
Responding to recent scholarly and activist discussions of the public museum as a site of anti‐feminism, this article examines the historical development of ‘feminist museology’ in Britain. Focusing on the mystery and controversies surrounding an anonymous woman’s gift of Hans Holbein’s Christina of Denmark to the National Gallery in 1909, this study investigates the dynamic of art, gender, and citizenship during the prewar Liberal crisis. The Ho…
Radical Conservations: The Problem with the London Museum
Radical History Review - 2002, Issue 84
The Rule of Freedom: Liberalism and the Modern City
Color Problems: Work, Pathology, and Perception in Modern Britain
This article explores the historical relationship between scientific research and labor management by investigating the state supervision of color perception in British workers (1870s-1920s). Whereas eighteenth-century scientific writers had described color blindness as an individual idiosyncrasy, color blindness was interpreted in the late nineteenth century as a social contaminant. As multiple sites of labor and industry were saturated with col…
The Place of Liberalism
here was liberalism? From the liberal point of view, this is almost certainly the wrong question to ask. As Uday Singh Mehta notes in his provocative study, Liberalism and Empire (1999), the universalist principles of nineteenth-century liberalism promoted a denial of place in liberal political theory, a purposeful neglect of the significance of territory (120). Liberal thinkers embraced the concept of evolution in time, emphasizing that individu…
Making Faces: Tattooed Women and Colonial Regimes
This article explores a criminal case in late-nineteenth-century Upper Burma, in which a British police officer named Chisholm was accused of forcibly tattooing the face of his Burmese mistress, Mah Gnee. The case is discussed with regard to the histories of punitive and decorative tattooing in pre-colonial and colonial South Asia, as well as British anxieties about the occupation of Burma. The article then analyzes the links between the body pol…
Indian Yellow: Making and Breaking the Imperial Palette
This article examines the economics and politics of the pigments that British artists used in order to depict non-white subjects and thus attempts to begin to reconstruct the palette of empire. In analyzing the origins, popularity, and disuse of one pigment (that is, Indian yellow) that had particular relevance for painting Indian subjects, I look at the intersection of material culture and imperial politics. The process of visually representing …
The Boot and the Spleen: When Was Murder Possible in British India
Could Britons in India commit murder? More precisely, could they be prosecuted and sentenced for doing so? As these epigraphs suggest, the Raj was deeply preoccupied with elaborating minute taxonomies of violence and death. In a variety of ways, British violence toward indigenes was made an object of policy initiatives by the Government of India. Defining violence, both indigenous and foreign, was one key task of the Raj, along with clarifying th…
The Ideas in Things: Fugitive Meaning in the Victorian Novel , by Elaine Freedgood
Leaving Home: The Politics of Deportation in Postwar Britain
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Postcolonial Family? West African Children, Private Fostering, and the British State
The Afterlife of Empire
â Quietly dazzling. . . . In this gripping account of welfareâ s postcolonial history, Jordanna Bailkin throws the archives wide open and invites us to walk through them with new eyesâ and with renewed appreciation for the intimate connections between empire and metropole in the making of contemporary Britain. The Afterlife of Empire challenges us to reimagine how we think and teach the twentieth century in Britain and beyond.â â Antoinette Burto…
Indian Yellow: Making and Breaking the Imperial Palette
The Sounds of Independence? Lessons from Africa and Beyond at the Transcription Centre Archive
Mathew Thomson. Lost Freedom: The Landscape of the Child and the British Post-War Settlement
Much in Mathew Thomson's sophisticated new book rests on the assumption that the contemporary reader (and parent) will be unnerved by the images clustered in its first chapter: that is, of boys and girls playing, entirely unsupervised and unfettered by adults, in Britain's urban landscape. As Thomson puts it, the simple social fact that children used to occupy the streets of our cities—and no longer do—is the premise for this book. So, where did …
Where Did the Empire Go? Archives and Decolonization in Britain
Enoch Powell and the Making of Postcolonial Britain, by Camilla Schofield
From 1968 to 1971, Enoch Powell collected thousands of pieces of evidence—a vast assemblage of letters, reports, and newspaper clippings—for a file on what he called ‘The Thing’: episodes of social and political unrest that ranged from industrial militancy and student protest in England to violence in Northern Ireland, and Black Power in Detroit. As Camilla Schofield notes in her riveting new biography of Powell, this file (housed now with Powell…
Erik Linstrum. Ruling Minds: Psychology in the British Empire
Could it be that social scientists—and scientists of the mind, in particular—are not as evil and collusive as we have come to think? Erik Linstrum’s highly accomplished first book about the history of psychology and empire transcends any simple morality tale of heroes and villains, offering instead a compelling and nuanced portrait of the vexed politics of expertise in an imperial age. Linstrum begins with a paradox: “how a field of expertise [ps…
Making Camp
This chapter surveys the diverse spaces that refugees inhabited in Britain, from military bases to stately homes to prisons. It traces the varied prehistories of the refugee camp, from detention camps in South Africa to plague and famine camps in India, and internment camps in Europe. Specific elements of camp architecture—from barbed wire to the Nissen hut—gave rise to unique physical and social experiences. The built environment of refugee camp…
Epilogue
This chapter explores the diverse fates and futures of refugee camps. What happened to the camps after the refugees left? What remains of these camps today? This chapter charts the chaotic and incomplete process of camp closures. It considers how these camps have been remembered (or forgotten), and reflects on the multiple—and massive—uses of encampment today. Although refugee camps in Britain were supposed to plan their own obsolescence, they we…
Interlude
The Interlude narrates the diverse and often harrowing stories of how refugees arrived in Britain during the twentieth century. But it also questions the fetish of arrival that characterizes many refugee stories. Scenes of arrival (the trains of the Kindertransporte , the small boats from Vietnam rescued by British ships)—iconic though they have become—cut the story of refugees short. They uphold the fiction that each situation was the result of …
Hard Core
This chapter addresses how camps functioned as sites of rebellion and daily acts of resistance. As camps transitioned from military to civilian control, they developed conflicting regimes of discipline with competing definitions of physical and political freedom. Camp authorities and refugees struggled to determine whether refugees could enter and leave the camps freely, and if they could choose where and when to settle. The chapter considers how…
Feeding and Hungering
This chapter examines the fraught debates about feeding refugees in camps, including the frequent use of hunger strikes. Refugee camps brought new foods and ways of feeding that formed an important constellation of conflict and community. For camp authorities, the work of mass feeding sparked debates about whether camps aided or obstructed the preservation of “minority” cultures. Many refugees perceived food as a crucial reminder of what they had…
Unsettled: Refugee Camps and the Making of Multicultural Britain
Today, no one thinks of Britain as a land of camps. Instead, camps seem to happen “elsewhere,” from Greece to Palestine to the global South. Yet over the course of the twentieth century, dozens of British refugee camps housed hundreds of thousands of Belgians, Jews, Basques, Poles, Hungarians, Anglo-Egyptians, Ugandan Asians, and Vietnamese. “Refugee camps” in Britain were never only for refugees. Refugees shared space with Britons who had been d…
On Camps, past and Present’
This article reflects on the experience of writing a book about the history of refugee camps in Britain during the global refugee crisis. It explores the relationship between camps of the 20th and 21st centuries, and considers the role of historians in participating in debates about contemporary political issues
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