Kearns, Gerard
(2019)
An accumulated wrong: Roger Casement and the anticolonial moments within imperial governance.
Journal of Historical Geography, 64.
pp. 1-12.
ISSN 0305-7488
Abstract
Taking three moments of governance – executive, legislative and judicial – this paper explains how forms of anticolonial critique were composed and articulated within the general regime of imperial rule. Through the career of Roger Casement, this paper shows how international human rights could develop out of the administration of empires as they monitored and compared the treatment of their own subjects in other imperial spaces. Casement drew particularly on his Irish heritage to identify the expropriation of direct producers as the basis of colonial rule. For Casement, colonialism was coeval with the destruction of native life. This was a far more systematic critique than was typical in commentary on the evils of colonialism. It finally impelled Casement into open rebellion, giving him one last opportunity – from the dock as a convicted traitor – to make public an anticolonial epistemology that challenged the legitimacy of imperial sovereignty.
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Article
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Keywords: |
Anticolonial nationalism; Colonialism; Empire; Ireland Roger Casement; |
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Faculty of Social Sciences > Geography |
Item ID: |
11094 |
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2019.02.004 |
Depositing User: |
Gerry Kearns
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Date Deposited: |
26 Sep 2019 11:37 |
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Journal of Historical Geography |
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Elsevier |
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Yes |
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