Libya's refugees, their places of exile, and the shaping of their national idea

Baldinetti, Anna

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“…As Baldinetti shows, the experiences of exile often reinforced national identities and produced new structures of loyalty and solidarity. 40 As we have emphasised (and which we explore in more detail below), a significant element of the island imaginary is that they are 'uninhabited', at least by 'civilised' peoples, and thus the impact of nationalist and other leaders on the 'native' population of Seychelles was rarely acknowledged or even imagined possible. However, exiles often had a lasting impact on the political, economic and socio-cultural development of the places to which they were exiled.…”

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confidence: 97%

Colonial Imaginaries and Postcolonial Transformations: exiles, bases, beaches

Kothari

Wilkinson

2010

Third World Quarterly

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This article draws on Edward Said's notion of 'imaginary geographies' to explore how representations of small island states enabled particular colonial interventions to take place in the Indian Ocean region and to show how these representations are currently being reworked to support development strategies. It examines how particular colonial imaginaries justified and legitimised spatially and temporally extended transactions before focusing on two examples of forced population movements: British colonial policy of forcibly exiling anti-colonial nationalists and political 'undesirables' from other parts of the empire to Seychelles; and the use of islands in the region as strategic military bases, requiring the compulsory relocation of populations. While a colonising legacy pervades contemporary representations of these societies, such depictions are not immutable but can be, and are being, appropriated and reworked through various forms of situated agency. Thus an 'island imaginary' has become an important cultural and economic resource for small island states, most notably in the development of a tourist industry. The key challenge for vulnerable peripheral states is to create new forms of representations that contest and replace tenacious colonialist depictions to provide greater opportunities for sustained development.

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Section: Exilesmentioning

confidence: 97%