Scars of Partition. Postcolonial Legacies in French and British Borderlands
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16579259 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Berny Sèbe (0000-0002-7608-7793, University of Birmingham, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 401-402 |
| Publication date | 2015-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | French History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0269-1191 • E-ISSN: 1477-4542 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/fh/crv050 |
| OpenAlex | W2206013779 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
Among the many contemporary legacies of the colonial period, such as world languages or financial circuits, state boundaries in so-called Third World countries appear as one of the most controversial unintended consequences of European empires. Famous for their arbitrariness (in most cases), these borders have survived almost unscathed the test of independence from their metropoles. The most emblematic case is that of the Organization of African Unity, which enshrined in 1963 the principle of inviolability of borders inherited from the colonial period, in an attempt to appease potential tensions between newly independent neighbours. In spite of the rise of Decolonization as a field of study in its own right (best exemplified by the annual Decolonization Seminar in Washington, which has just celebrated its tenth anniversary), little attention has been paid to the long-term consequences of imperialism in borderlands—let alone in a comparative perspective. Scars of Partition explores this uncharted territory, relying on a pluri-disciplinary framework (borrowing from political science, history, geography and anthropology) to analyse the impact of British and French imperial practices on the everyday lives of a variety of people in what is known today as the Third World. Not only does William Miles compare the two largest late-modern empires the world has seen, but he also does so on the basis of a variety of case studies all around the world, encompassing West Africa, the West Indies, the South Pacific, the Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia. The end result is a convincing multi-faceted account, which displays an impressive level of breadth and depth when it analyses the political, cultural and social legacies the British and French empires left on territories which were often peopled by similar ethnic groups in the pre-colonial period.
Archaeology · Colonialism · Decolonization · Economic history · Ethnology · Geography · Independence (probability theory) · Political science · Politics · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · History · Law · South Asian Studies and Conflicts · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0.67 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2022 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |