Placing Internationalism: International Conferences and the Making of the Modern World

Half Title\nTitle Page\nCopyright Page\nContents\nFigures\nContributors\nAcknowledgements\nIntroduction\n	International conferencing as a political practice\n	Structure\n	Approaches\nChapter 1: Towards an historical geography of international conferencing\n	Introduction\n	Pre-histories of the modern conference\n	Modern international conferences\n		Liberal international conferencing\n		Colonial, imperial and Commonwealth conferencing\n		Anti-colonial, non-aligned and activist conferencing\n	Conclusion\nPart I: State internationalism\n	Chapter 2: Ambassadors, activists and experts: Conferencing and the internationalization of international relations in the nineteenth century\n	Chapter 3: Contesting representations of indigeneity at the First Inter-American Indigenista Congress, 1940\n		Introduction\n		The physical and social spaces of the conference\n		Leadership of and participation in the conference\n		Indigenous agency, voice and resistance\n		Conclusion\n	Chapter 4: Awe and espionage at Lancaster House: The African decolonization conferences of the early 1960s\n		Introduction\n			Background to the conferences\n		The London advantage: Control, influence, expertise, infrastructure and espionage\n		‘The Lancaster House treatment’\n		Travelling from Africa\n		Conclusion\nPart II: Science, civil society and the state\n	Chapter 5: Conferencing the aerial future\n		The international atmosphere\n		Aerial futures at the 1926 Imperial Conference\n		Weather permitting: The 1929 Conference of Empire Meteorologists\n		Rehearsing the aerial future: The 1930 Imperial Conference\n		Conclusion\n	Chapter 6: Scientific internationalism in a time of crisis: The Month of Intellectual Cooperation at the 1937 Paris World Fair\n		Introduction: Paris 1937 – A huge ‘waste of time’?\n		The Month of Intellectual Cooperation: A guardian angel for world peace?\n		The World Congress of Universal Documentation 1937: Non-utopian internationalism?\n		Conclusion: Internationalism, networking and the benefits of chitchat\n	Chapter 7: Between camaraderie and rivalry: Geopolitics at the eighteenth International Geographical Congress, Rio de Janeiro, 1956\n		Introduction\n		Media narratives on the eighteenth IGC\n		Practical geopolitical reasoning at the conference\n		Final words\nPart III: Permanent institutions\n	Chapter 8: Spectacular peacebuilding: The League of Nations and internationalist visions at interwar World Expos\n		War and peace at the Paris Exposition of 1937\n		A pavilion in partnership: The League and the RUP’s proletarian internationalism\n		An appeal to American psychology? The League at the New York World’s Fair of 1939\n		A technical League: Accommodating multiple internationalisms\n		Conclusion\n	Chapter 9: Re-situating Bretton Woods: Site and venue in relation to the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, June 1944\n		Timing/site/venue\n		Social atmosphere\n		Conclusion\n	Chapter 10: Countenancing and conferencing Japan at the Institute of Pacific Relations, 1945–54\n		Introduction\n		The IPR: A collaborative space?\n		Countenancing and conferencing Japan, with Gourou\n			Hot Springs 1945\n			Stratford-upon-Avon 1947\n			Lucknow 1950\n			Kyoto 1954\n		Conclusion\nPart IV: Political networks\n	Chapter 11: Alternative internationalisms in East Asia: The Conferences of the Asian Peoples, Japanese–Chinese rivalry and Japanese imperialism, 1924–43\n		Introduction\n		‘Asia’ against the ‘West’?\n		Transnational pan-Asianist activities and the first Conference of the Asian Peoples (1926)\n		The second Pan-Asian Conference in Shanghai\n		State-sponsored Pan-Asian Conferences in Dalian (1934) and Tokyo (1943)\n		Conclusion\n	Chapter 12: Partnership in/against empire: Pan-African and imperial conferencing after the Second World War\n		Towards Pan-African Federation\n		Imperialism divides – Socialism unites\n		Conclusion\n	Chapter 13: Skies that bind: Air travel in the Bandung era\n		Journeys in the making of Third World diplomacy\n		‘Progress’ and ‘solidarity’ in the literati’s layover\n		Conclusion\nIndex