Afghanistan and the Coloniality of Diplomacy

The British Legation in Kabul, 1922–1948

Maximilian Drephal (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

XXIII, 366 Seiten

2020 | 1st ed. 2019
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-23962-6 (ISBN)

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This book offers an institutional history of the British Legation in Kabul, which was established in response to the independence of Afghanistan in 1919. It contextualises this diplomatic mission in the wider remit of Anglo-Afghan relations and diplomacy from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, examining the networks of family and profession that established the institution's colonial foundations and its connections across South Asia and the Indian Ocean. The study presents the British Legation as a late imperial institution, which materialised colonialism's governmental practices in the age of independence. Ultimately, it demonstrates the continuation of asymmetries forged in the Anglo-Afghan encounter and shows how these were transformed into instances of diplomatic inequality in the realm of international relations. Approaching diplomacy through the themes of performance, the body and architecture, and in the context of knowledge transfers, this work offers new perspectiveson international relations through a cultural history of diplomacy.

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Maximilian Drephal lectures in the School of Politics and International Studies at Loughborough University, UK, and is Research Associate in the Department of History at the University of Sheffield, UK, where he has taught as Lecturer in International History. He has previously published in Modern Asian Studies and in the edited collection Sport and Diplomacy: Games within Games (2018).

1 Introduction: empire, colony and diplomacy.- 2 The remaking of anglo-afghan relations.- 3 Subaltern biographies.- 4 Biography and imperial governance.- 5 Accreditation and performance.- 6 Diplomatic bodies.- 7 Architecture.- 8 From colonial legation to postimperial embassy.- 9 Conclusions: the coloniality of diplomacy.-

"This book is a valuable addition to the growing literature on Afghanistan's entanglements with the British empire. ... The book does a remarkable job at delineating the ways in which this diplomatic representation went to great lengths to fashion itself as a ,colonial project en miniature' along the model of British residencies ... ." (Francesca Fuoli, H-Soz-Kult, hsozkult.de, May 21, 2021)

Erscheinungsdatum	03.10.2020
Reihe/Serie	Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
Zusatzinfo	XXIII, 366 p. 9 illus., 2 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	511 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Schlagworte	Afghan independence • Afghanistan • Amir Amanullah Khan • Colonial state • George Nathaniel Curzon • Globalisation • Imperial • India • London • Sovereignty
ISBN-10	3-030-23962-4 / 3030239624
ISBN-13	978-3-030-23962-6 / 9783030239626
Zustand	Neuware