A passage from India: Geographies and experiences of repatriation, 1858-1939

Gowans, Georgina

doi:10.1080/1464936021000032450

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“…As Nash claims, 'white English class and gender identities were constituted through colonial relationships and interconnections ' (2004:117), showing the imbrication of expressions of Englishness with its apparent other. Comparisons that articulated the 'virtues' of Englishness were integral to the reproduction of imaginary geographies of an idealised 'home' (Gowan, 2002), in contradistinction to subordinate colonised spaces.…”

Section: Travelling Imaginaries: Postcolonial Literary Tourism and Momentioning

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Consuming colonial imaginaries and forging postcolonial networks: on the road with Indian travellers in the 1950s

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Kothari

2018

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Drawing on an extended road trip from England to India undertaken by two Indian travellers in the 1950s, this paper challenges the dominant travel stories and Eurocentric academic accounts that persistently privilege western tourists. Focusing upon the literary desires that shaped their British itinerary and a dramatic encounter in Egypt, we highlight two distinctly different experiences that emerged during their journey. We demonstrate how a swirl of larger historical events and processes marked the time in which they travelled, with the encounters, places and incidents they experienced informed by the dissipation of colonial alliances and the emergence of postcolonial connections.

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Section: Travelling Imaginaries: Postcolonial Literary Tourism and Momentioning

confidence: 99%

Consuming colonial imaginaries and forging postcolonial networks: on the road with Indian travellers in the 1950s

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Kothari

2018

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“…More specifically, as Hall (1992: 297) writes, ‘it was in the process of comparison between the “virtues” of “Englishness” and the negative features of other cultures that many of the distinctive characterizations of English identities were first defined’. These performances also relied upon the reproduction of imaginary geographies of ‘home’, in which England was constructed as an idealized glorious homeland (Gowans, 2002), and its opposite, colonized space.…”

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Spatial practices and imaginaries: Experiences of colonial officers and development professionals

Kothari

2006

Singap J Trop Geogr

115

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This paper explores the spatiality of colonial and postcolonial power and discourse as produced, performed and imagined by former British colonial service officers and contemporary UK international development professionals. It focuses on two key aspects of spatial practices. The first addresses the spaces inhabited by these colonial officers and development professionals overseas and how their locatedness, embedded or enclavic, shapes relationships to others. The second explores this distinctive social and spatial distancing through their relationship to, and imagined geographies of, home and away and how these are embodied in their institutional and cultural capital. The paper examines the regularities and consistencies that stand out from numerous individual practices through which both former colonial officers and development professionals negotiate the situations in which they live and work. It also specifies how authoritative management, privilege and distance informs their spatial practices despite changing global contexts and a more diverse composition of those who articulate contemporary relationships between 'first' and 'third' worlds. Finally, the paper suggests that the cultures which travelled over colonial space through being performed by colonial officers have been reworked throughout the postcolonial period, belying epochal historical periodizations that conjure up a clear disjuncture between colonial and development eras.

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