Samoa on the World Stage
Petitions and Peoples before the Mandates Commission of the League of Nations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11944129 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sofie Pedersen (0000-0002-7529-6876, Schlumberger (Ireland), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 231-261 |
| Publication date | 2012-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-6534 • E-ISSN: 1743-9329 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03086534.2012.697612 |
| OpenAlex | W2029387621 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 15 |
One of the innovative aspects of the mandates system of the League of Nations, the oversight regime applied to the former German and Ottoman territories seized by the Allied Powers in the First World War, was that it included a right of petition. Inhabitants of any territory governed under mandate, or any interested outsider, could petition the League of Nations if they believed that the stipulations laid down in Article 22 of the League Covenant or in particular mandate texts were being violated. This article explores the origins, development, politics and scope of the practice of petitioning under the mandates system, arguing that it was much more significant, extensive and consequential than has previously been recognised. Petitions rarely offered petitioners redress; instead, they made visible the assumptions about racial and civilisational hierarchies, and the realities of power, on which the system was based. Yet petitions were not only revelatory of political relations but also altered those relations in turn, as petitioners used the opportunity of appeal to learn the skills of claim-making, international lobbying and political mobilisation. The article looks closely at one dramatic case—that of the mass movement against New Zealand's administration of the mandated territory Western Samoa in the late 1920s, which involved numerous petitions to the League—to illustrate these points
Administration (probate law · Elite · League · Mandate · Petitioner · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Redress · Sociology · European Political History Analysis · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Law · Public Administration · World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact
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Introduction
Colonial Petitions, Colonial Petitioners, and the Imperial Parliament, ca. 1780–1918
Minorities Treaties and Mandatory Regimes
Petitioning and Political Cultures in South Asia
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| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |