Empire development and colonialism

The past in the present This collection draws on a range of methodologies and approaches to explore the similarities, differences and overlaps between the contemporary debates on international development and humanitarian intervention and the historical artefacts and strategies of Empire. The parallels between the language of nineteenth-century liberal imperialism and the humanitarian interventionism of the post-Cold War era are striking. The American military, both in Somalia in the early 1990s and in the aftermath of the Iraq invasion, used ethno-graphic information compiled by British colonial administrators. Are these interconnections accidental curiosities or more elemental? The contributors to this book articulate the belief that these comparisons are analytically revealing. From the language of moral necessity and conviction, the design of specific aid packages, the devised forms of intervention and govern mentality, through to the life-style, design and location of NGO encampments, the authors seek to account for the numerous and often striking parallels between contemporary international security, development and humanitarian intervention, and the logic of Empire. This book will be of great interest to all those concerned with understanding the historical antecedents and wider implications of today's emergent liberal interventionism, and the various logics of international development.

Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Mark Duffield & Vernon Hewitt
The Exceptional Inclusion of ‘Savages’ & ‘Barbarians’
The Colonial Liberal Bio-Politics of Mobility & Development
Matthew Merefield
Empire, International Development & the Concept of Good Government Vernon Hewitt
Empire: A Question of Hearts?
The Social Turn In Colonial Government Bombay C.19051925
Henrik Aspengren
‘Conflict-Sensitive’ Aid & Making Liberal Peace Suthaharan Nadarajah
Development, Poverty & Famines
The Case of British Empire
Richard Sheldon
Plain Tales from the Reconstruction Site Spatial Continuities in Contemporary Humanitarian Practice Lisa Smirl
The International Politics of Social Transformation
Trusteeship & Intervention in Historical Perspective
David Williams & Tom Young
Liberal Interventionism & the Fragile State
Linked By Design?
Mark Duffield
Freedom, Fear & NGOs
Balancing Discourses of Violence & Humanity In Securitising Times
Patricia Noxolo
Theorising Continuities between Empire & Development
Toward A New Theory of History
April R. Biccum
Spatial Practices & Imaginaries
Experiences of Colonial Officers & Development Professionals
Uma Kothari
Decolonising the Borders in Sudan
Ethnic Territories & National Development
Douglas H. Johnson
‘Individualism Is, Indeed, Running Riot’
Components of the Social Democratic model Of Development
Paul Kelemen
Index

Mark Duffield is Professor of Development Politics at the University of Bristol. During the 1980s, he was Oxfams Country representative for Sudan. His most recent books are Development, Security and Unending War: Governing the World of Peoples (2007) and Global Governance and the New Wars: The Merging of Development and Security (2001).