The Federation persuasion
Identity, sovereignty, and decolonisation in the Indies East and West
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6435894 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Cecil Parker (0000-0002-6776-3331, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 43-60 |
| Publication date | 2025-02-14 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Global History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1740-0228 • E-ISSN: 1740-0236 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1740022825000014 |
| OpenAlex | W4407558004 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Postwar decolonisation in the global South sparked a range of political imaginaries and experiments in postcolonial governance. Among the most prominent and least understood of the roads not ultimately taken was that of federation. The federal model seemed to offer something to almost everyone—Cold War hegemons, metropolitan officials, anticolonial nationalists, ‘pan-’ racial visionaries—and a dozen such unions were proposed or attempted after 1945. Yet almost none lasted even a decade before shrinking or collapsing. Their demise, despite occurring at the height of the Cold War, had little or nothing to do with that conflict. Rather, the concurrent rise and fall of two such unions—the West Indies Federation and Malaysia—demonstrates that they succumbed to a number of fatal flaws, above all one that connects this decolonisation story to the long territorial-imperial era preceding it: the centrifugal force of the ethnopolitical identities embedded within them
Aesthetics · Ancient history · Art · Decolonization · Ethnology · Identity (music · Linguistics · Persuasion · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Sovereignty · West indies · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |