From Barataria to Utopia: Economic-Positivism, Scientific Governance, and Colonial Discourses of International Order, 1880-1940

Project description

The switch to scientific rule in the 20th century

The impacts of colonialism have long been under review. The EU-funded EPOSSCIGOV will examine how colonial governments in Australian Papua/New Guinea and British West Africa broke with 'humanitarian' practices of governance in the early 20th century, implementing instead 'scientific' rule, that made unrealised contributors to the rise of the concept of 'economic interests' in interwar international discourses of world order. The project will focus on the latest methodological innovations in the examination of colonial, imperial and international governance, considering each as necessarily entangled both in time and in colonial space.

Fields of science

• social sciences › sociology › governance
• natural sciences › physical sciences › astronomy › planetary sciences › planetary geology

Programme(s)

• H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Main Programme
• H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility

Topic(s)

• MSCA-IF-2018 - Individual Fellowships

Call for proposal

H2020-MSCA-IF-2018

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Funding Scheme

MSCA-IF-EF-ST - Standard EF

Coordinator

THE UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX

Net EU contribution

€ 224 933,76

Address

Sussex House Falmer
BN1 9RH Brighton
United Kingdom

Region

South East (England) › Surrey, East and West Sussex › Brighton and Hove

Activity type

Higher or Secondary Education Establishments

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Other funding

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