Conferencing the international at the World Pacifist Meeting, 1949

Hodder, Jake

doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2015.03.002

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“…This includes work on scientific conferences, whether contemporary (on climate see Weisser 2014; Weisser and M€ uller-Mahn 2017) or historical (on empire and meteorology see Mahony 2016). In the era of decolonization the conference became a key site of both negotiation and cultural display (Craggs 2014;Hodder 2015), at which successful meetings required the affective "umph" (Craggs 2018, 52) of conference organizers. These are all elements of what Craggs and Mahony (2014) termed the "geographies of the conference," in their call for greater attention to the politics of knowledge, performance, and protest in such spaces.…”

Section: Conference Atmospheresmentioning

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“Political Atmospherics”: The India Round Table Conference’s Atmospheric Environments, Bodies and Representations, London 1930–1932

Legg

2019

Annals of the American Association of Geographers

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Section: Conference Atmospheresmentioning

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“Political Atmospherics”: The India Round Table Conference’s Atmospheric Environments, Bodies and Representations, London 1930–1932

Legg

2019

Annals of the American Association of Geographers

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“…This transformation has left an unsettlingly large archive of written material in its wake; unsettling in both its sheer volume and in its absences. While the voices of prominent figures can be heard clearly through thick files of correspondence, there is scant acknowledgement to how local people responded to (or participated in) events being undertaken in their own town, city or region (see Hodder ). While some voices remain unrecorded, abundance risks drowning out those perspectives that are faintly heard; they are all but lost among a dense administrative circuitry of hundreds of thousands of pages of reports, minutes and press releases.…”

Section: Archives and Abundance: Traces By The Thousandmentioning

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On absence and abundance: biography as method in archival research

Hodder

2017

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Geographical scholarship has rightly problematised the act of archival research, showing how the practice of archiving is not only concerned with how a society collectively remembers, but also forgets. As such, the dominant motif for discussing historical methods in geography has been through the lens of absence: the archive is a space of ‘traces’, ‘fragments’ and ‘ghosts’. In this paper I suggest that the focus on incompleteness and partiality, while true, may also belie what many geographers working in archives find their greatest difficulty: an overwhelming volume of source materials. I reflect on my own research experiences in the pacifist archive to suggest that the growing scale and scope of many collections, along with the taxing research demands of transnational perspectives, pose immediate practical challenges for geographers characterised as much by abundance as by absence. In the second half of the paper, drawing on recent scholarship in history and geography, I argue that the method of biography offers one possible strategy for navigating archival abundance, allowing geographers to tell stories that are wider, deeper and more revealingly complex within the existing time and financial constraints of humanities research.

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Section: Toward a Historical Geography Of Peacementioning

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“…This paper encourages geographers to remain attentive to the important, complex and contradictory role that the peace movement has played in shaping the historical geographies of internationalism in the twentieth century (Hodder 2015;Hodder et al 2015). When the Brigade chairman A. J. Muste talks of the 'world task of pacifism' and the urgent need to stop approaching peace 'with a narrow and provincial vision and on a petty scale', for example, he means something quite different from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace's sense of its global mission.…”

Section: Toward a Historical Geography Of Peacementioning

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Waging peace: militarising pacifism in Central Africa and the problem of geography, 1962

Hodder

2016

Trans Inst British Geog

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Despite the discipline having undergone a 'peace turn' in recent years, the history of the peace movement itself remains curiously under explored by geographers. This paper retraces the World Peace Brigade and its collaboration with the Northern Rhodesian independence movement in 1962. I argue that the Brigade offers geographers important insights into how ideas of peace have been circulated, adapted and even resisted. The paper suggests that geography poses a distinct conceptual problem for peace movements, which must simultaneously operate beyond conventional forms of territorial politics while remaining sufficiently flexible in the political arena for their strength and relevance. In Central Africa this meant the Brigade developed two, ultimately incompatible, conceptions of peace: an internationalist one that stressed world community, and a local one that adapted pacifism for nationalist movements. I suggest this case study has two implications for peace research in geography. First, it encourages us to remain attentive to the big stories of peace and, specifically, the way in which the peace movement has been a historically important conduit for a range of internationalist ideas. Second, the histories of waging peace (peace armies, civil disobedience, etc.) allow us to critically interrogate the co-constitutive geographies of violence and nonviolence while retaining peace as a distinct category around which to promote political engagement.

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Conferencing the international at the World Pacifist Meeting, 1949

Cited by 24 publications

References 27 publications

“Political Atmospherics”: The India Round Table Conference’s Atmospheric Environments, Bodies and Representations, London 1930–1932

“Political Atmospherics”: The India Round Table Conference’s Atmospheric Environments, Bodies and Representations, London 1930–1932

On absence and abundance: biography as method in archival research

Waging peace: militarising pacifism in Central Africa and the problem of geography, 1962

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