Lydia Walker
Biographic Data
| ID | 3962582 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lydia Walker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lydia |
| FAMILY NAME | Walker |
| SIGNATURE | WALKER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9526-6033 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The “Winds of Change” Blew in Many Directions
In September 2023, a group of scholars gathered to discuss histories of decolonization, and particularly histories of dissent and opposition in the aftermath of political independence. This roundtable, and the broader special section of which it is part, places “decolonization's discontents” at the center of the postindependence narrative(s) to better understand the limitations of the postcolonial state and anti-colonial politics; to explore both…
Lauren Benton. They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence
A revisionist history of the United Nations
The United Nations (UN) continues to confront global crises that threaten its survival and test the durability of the‘ liberal international order’. Challenges to global organization, arising from war and humanitarian catastrophe, led to the creation of the UN as a set of bureaucratic institutions and as a system of international order after the Second World War.1 However, writing the UN’s history from that departure point has skewed analyses of …
States-in-Waiting: A Counternarrative of Global Decolonization
After the Second World War, national self-determination became a recognized international norm, yet it only extended to former colonies. Groups within postcolonial states that made alternative sovereign claims were disregarded or actively suppressed. Showcasing their contested histories, Lydia Walker offers a powerful counternarrative of global decolonization, highlighting little-known regions, marginalized individuals, and their hidden (or lost)…
The Anticolonial Transnational: Imaginaries, Mobilities, and Networks in the Struggle against Empire
This volume is the first to explore transnational anticolonialism as a general global phenomenon that spanned the entire twentieth century. Its collected essays model both a broadening of the issues under consideration and the collaboration necessary to do justice to the scope of this vibrant field. They showcase new work by scholars who explore the anticolonial transnational in multiple geographical regions, from a variety of perspectives, and a…
The Political Geography of International Advocacy
Through a study of the Indian Central Relief Committee for Tibetans and the American Emergency Committee for Tibetan Refugees, this article maps the multiple dimensions of Indian and American civil society advocacy on behalf of Tibet in the immediate aftermaths of the Dalai Lama's 1959 flight to India: anticommunism, imperialism, discourses of religious freedom and civilizational solidarity, domestic politics, and regional security interests. The…
Rethinking Nationalism
This forum, curated by Michael Goebel (Freie Univ. Berlin), brings together twelve historians who draw on their own areas of specialization to rethink how we conceptualize the history of nationalism in our present moment of reactivated and often militant nationalist rhetoric
Struggles for Self-Determination: The Denial of Reactionary Statehood in Africa by Josiah Brownell
Struggles for Self-Determination examines the sovereign claims of African counterrevolutionary nationalisms in Katanga, Rhodesia, Transkei, and Bophuthatswana. The book’s most important contribution is conceptual; Brownell takes the nationalist claims of these countries seriously, even though they were denied that legitimacy by international forums in their own time.Dominant nationalist historical narratives of African decolonization are entwined…
Miraculous rivers and monstrous cities: Landscapes and gender performance in thirteenth-century crusading culture
The thirteenth-century crusade preacher and bishop of Acre, Jacques de Vitry, cast urban landscapes as a type of locus horribilis, marked by vice and violence, especially transgressions between men and women. In Jacques’ depictions of environmental and human phenomena, the transgression of patriarchal social bonds signalled to audiences that the place was especially ‘uncivilised’. For each place, Jacques detailed violence with increasing severity…
Weeping for Dido: The Classics in the Medieval Classroom
In Weeping for Dido, Marjorie Curry Woods applies her expert knowledge of the teaching of rhetoric in medieval education to consider how teachers and students interacted with three literary works that were fundamental to medieval teaching—the Aeneid, the Achilleid, and the Ilias latina. Through close attention to glosses, highlighting, and formatting of manuscript copies of these works, Woods reveals that the education of medieval men regularly f…
Jayaprakash Narayan and the politics of reconciliation for the postcolonial state and its imperial fragments
Jayaprakash (JP) Narayan was an activist, politician and political thinker who attempted to use peace negotiations on India’s borders to renegotiate the postcolonial Indian state. This article tracks JP’s efforts to find non-national vehicles for regional nationalist demands through his positions on the contentious political questions of a Nagaland in India, and a Tibet in China. It locates JP within the Anglophone international peace movement th…
Decolonization in the 1960s: On Legitimate and Illegitimate Nationalist Claims-Making
What happened to peoples who felt colonized in post-colonial states? After the Second World War, the formal international order of the United Nations and Cold War political alignments recognized national self-determination as a right, but only saw claims of self-determination within European empires. However, there are hidden stories of anti-colonial claims within post-colonial states, claims that operated through informal networks because they w…
General, I Have Fought Just as Many Nuclear Wars as You Have”: Forecasts, Future Scenarios, and the Politics of Armageddon
HISTORIANS HAVE LONG ARGUED THAT ignoring the past or misapplying its lessons can lead to fatal mistakes. But governments have shown far more interest in the promise of prevision. The United States, in particular, has made a massive investment in intelligence estimates, future scenarios, simulations, and technology forecasts since World War II. The sums expended on official history and archives are trifling in comparison.1 In some ways, this is a…
Forging a Key, Turning a Lock: Counterinsurgency Theory in Iraq 2006–2008
Counterinsurgency (COIN) doctrine is designed to combat a defined insurgency. In the present situation in Iraq, COIN's definition has been radically extended to include nation-building as well. This additional function has expanded the scope of the role of the Coalition Forces in Iraq. Yet COIN in its present incarnation may not be enough to finalize the implementation of the strategy of nation-building. This article finds three main criticisms/l…
Colonial Agriculture for Africans: Emory Alvord's Policy in Zimbabwe
The massive starvation that African nations experience from time to time occurs, as evidenced by this study, because of agricultural and educational policies formulated and implemented by the colonial governments during the nineteenth and half of the twentieth century. A study of any aspect of any colonial period reveals some disturbing realities that can be comprehended only in retrospect. The policy, contrary to the colonial government's, that …
Educational Reform and the Transformation of Southern Africa
Preface Introduction Some Facts About Southern Africa Map of Southern Africa Southern Africa in Crisis: A Region in Need of Reform The Imperative of Educational Reform in a Historical Context The Purpose of Educational Reform in Southern Africa Prerequisites of Educational Reform Theory of Educational Reform in Contemporary Southern Africa Approaches to Educational Reform Results of Educational Reform Educational Reform and the Transformation of …
Colonial Agriculture for Africans: Emory Alvord's Policy in Zimbabwe
General, I Have Fought Just as Many Nuclear Wars as You Have”: Forecasts, Future Scenarios, and the Politics of Armageddon
HISTORIANS HAVE LONG ARGUED THAT ignoring the past or misapplying its lessons can lead to fatal mistakes. But governments have shown far more interest in the promise of prevision. The United States, in particular, has made a massive investment in intelligence estimates, future scenarios, simulations, and technology forecasts since World War II. The sums expended on official history and archives are trifling in comparison.1 In some ways, this is a…
States-in-Waiting: A Counternarrative of Global Decolonization
After the Second World War, national self-determination became a recognized international norm, yet it only extended to former colonies. Groups within postcolonial states that made alternative sovereign claims were disregarded or actively suppressed. Showcasing their contested histories, Lydia Walker offers a powerful counternarrative of global decolonization, highlighting little-known regions, marginalized individuals, and their hidden (or lost)…
Decolonization in the 1960s: On Legitimate and Illegitimate Nationalist Claims-Making
What happened to peoples who felt colonized in post-colonial states? After the Second World War, the formal international order of the United Nations and Cold War political alignments recognized national self-determination as a right, but only saw claims of self-determination within European empires. However, there are hidden stories of anti-colonial claims within post-colonial states, claims that operated through informal networks because they w…
Jayaprakash Narayan and the politics of reconciliation for the postcolonial state and its imperial fragments
Jayaprakash (JP) Narayan was an activist, politician and political thinker who attempted to use peace negotiations on India’s borders to renegotiate the postcolonial Indian state. This article tracks JP’s efforts to find non-national vehicles for regional nationalist demands through his positions on the contentious political questions of a Nagaland in India, and a Tibet in China. It locates JP within the Anglophone international peace movement th…
A revisionist history of the United Nations
The United Nations (UN) continues to confront global crises that threaten its survival and test the durability of the‘ liberal international order’. Challenges to global organization, arising from war and humanitarian catastrophe, led to the creation of the UN as a set of bureaucratic institutions and as a system of international order after the Second World War.1 However, writing the UN’s history from that departure point has skewed analyses of …
Miraculous rivers and monstrous cities: Landscapes and gender performance in thirteenth-century crusading culture
The thirteenth-century crusade preacher and bishop of Acre, Jacques de Vitry, cast urban landscapes as a type of locus horribilis, marked by vice and violence, especially transgressions between men and women. In Jacques’ depictions of environmental and human phenomena, the transgression of patriarchal social bonds signalled to audiences that the place was especially ‘uncivilised’. For each place, Jacques detailed violence with increasing severity…
Colonial Agriculture for Africans: Emory Alvord's Policy in Zimbabwe
The massive starvation that African nations experience from time to time occurs, as evidenced by this study, because of agricultural and educational policies formulated and implemented by the colonial governments during the nineteenth and half of the twentieth century. A study of any aspect of any colonial period reveals some disturbing realities that can be comprehended only in retrospect. The policy, contrary to the colonial government's, that …
Educational Reform and the Transformation of Southern Africa
Preface Introduction Some Facts About Southern Africa Map of Southern Africa Southern Africa in Crisis: A Region in Need of Reform The Imperative of Educational Reform in a Historical Context The Purpose of Educational Reform in Southern Africa Prerequisites of Educational Reform Theory of Educational Reform in Contemporary Southern Africa Approaches to Educational Reform Results of Educational Reform Educational Reform and the Transformation of …
Colonial Agriculture for Africans: Emory Alvord's Policy in Zimbabwe
Forging a Key, Turning a Lock: Counterinsurgency Theory in Iraq 2006–2008
Counterinsurgency (COIN) doctrine is designed to combat a defined insurgency. In the present situation in Iraq, COIN's definition has been radically extended to include nation-building as well. This additional function has expanded the scope of the role of the Coalition Forces in Iraq. Yet COIN in its present incarnation may not be enough to finalize the implementation of the strategy of nation-building. This article finds three main criticisms/l…
General, I Have Fought Just as Many Nuclear Wars as You Have”: Forecasts, Future Scenarios, and the Politics of Armageddon
HISTORIANS HAVE LONG ARGUED THAT ignoring the past or misapplying its lessons can lead to fatal mistakes. But governments have shown far more interest in the promise of prevision. The United States, in particular, has made a massive investment in intelligence estimates, future scenarios, simulations, and technology forecasts since World War II. The sums expended on official history and archives are trifling in comparison.1 In some ways, this is a…
Jayaprakash Narayan and the politics of reconciliation for the postcolonial state and its imperial fragments
Jayaprakash (JP) Narayan was an activist, politician and political thinker who attempted to use peace negotiations on India’s borders to renegotiate the postcolonial Indian state. This article tracks JP’s efforts to find non-national vehicles for regional nationalist demands through his positions on the contentious political questions of a Nagaland in India, and a Tibet in China. It locates JP within the Anglophone international peace movement th…
Decolonization in the 1960s: On Legitimate and Illegitimate Nationalist Claims-Making
What happened to peoples who felt colonized in post-colonial states? After the Second World War, the formal international order of the United Nations and Cold War political alignments recognized national self-determination as a right, but only saw claims of self-determination within European empires. However, there are hidden stories of anti-colonial claims within post-colonial states, claims that operated through informal networks because they w…
Miraculous rivers and monstrous cities: Landscapes and gender performance in thirteenth-century crusading culture
The thirteenth-century crusade preacher and bishop of Acre, Jacques de Vitry, cast urban landscapes as a type of locus horribilis, marked by vice and violence, especially transgressions between men and women. In Jacques’ depictions of environmental and human phenomena, the transgression of patriarchal social bonds signalled to audiences that the place was especially ‘uncivilised’. For each place, Jacques detailed violence with increasing severity…
Weeping for Dido: The Classics in the Medieval Classroom
In Weeping for Dido, Marjorie Curry Woods applies her expert knowledge of the teaching of rhetoric in medieval education to consider how teachers and students interacted with three literary works that were fundamental to medieval teaching—the Aeneid, the Achilleid, and the Ilias latina. Through close attention to glosses, highlighting, and formatting of manuscript copies of these works, Woods reveals that the education of medieval men regularly f…
The Political Geography of International Advocacy
Through a study of the Indian Central Relief Committee for Tibetans and the American Emergency Committee for Tibetan Refugees, this article maps the multiple dimensions of Indian and American civil society advocacy on behalf of Tibet in the immediate aftermaths of the Dalai Lama's 1959 flight to India: anticommunism, imperialism, discourses of religious freedom and civilizational solidarity, domestic politics, and regional security interests. The…
Rethinking Nationalism
This forum, curated by Michael Goebel (Freie Univ. Berlin), brings together twelve historians who draw on their own areas of specialization to rethink how we conceptualize the history of nationalism in our present moment of reactivated and often militant nationalist rhetoric
Struggles for Self-Determination: The Denial of Reactionary Statehood in Africa by Josiah Brownell
Struggles for Self-Determination examines the sovereign claims of African counterrevolutionary nationalisms in Katanga, Rhodesia, Transkei, and Bophuthatswana. The book’s most important contribution is conceptual; Brownell takes the nationalist claims of these countries seriously, even though they were denied that legitimacy by international forums in their own time.Dominant nationalist historical narratives of African decolonization are entwined…
The Anticolonial Transnational: Imaginaries, Mobilities, and Networks in the Struggle against Empire
This volume is the first to explore transnational anticolonialism as a general global phenomenon that spanned the entire twentieth century. Its collected essays model both a broadening of the issues under consideration and the collaboration necessary to do justice to the scope of this vibrant field. They showcase new work by scholars who explore the anticolonial transnational in multiple geographical regions, from a variety of perspectives, and a…
States-in-Waiting: A Counternarrative of Global Decolonization
After the Second World War, national self-determination became a recognized international norm, yet it only extended to former colonies. Groups within postcolonial states that made alternative sovereign claims were disregarded or actively suppressed. Showcasing their contested histories, Lydia Walker offers a powerful counternarrative of global decolonization, highlighting little-known regions, marginalized individuals, and their hidden (or lost)…
The “Winds of Change” Blew in Many Directions
In September 2023, a group of scholars gathered to discuss histories of decolonization, and particularly histories of dissent and opposition in the aftermath of political independence. This roundtable, and the broader special section of which it is part, places “decolonization's discontents” at the center of the postindependence narrative(s) to better understand the limitations of the postcolonial state and anti-colonial politics; to explore both…
Lauren Benton. They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence
A revisionist history of the United Nations
The United Nations (UN) continues to confront global crises that threaten its survival and test the durability of the‘ liberal international order’. Challenges to global organization, arising from war and humanitarian catastrophe, led to the creation of the UN as a set of bureaucratic institutions and as a system of international order after the Second World War.1 However, writing the UN’s history from that departure point has skewed analyses of …
Political science (14 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · History (6 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Nationalism (5 works) · Geography (4 works)