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

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