Ireland and the 'ends' of the British Empire, 1886 to the present

爱尔兰和大英帝国的“终结”，1886 年至今

• 批准号: MR/X036111/1
• 负责人: Niamh Gallagher
• 金额: $ 201.22万
• 依托单位: University of Cambridge
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2024 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=MR%2FX036111%2F1
• 关键词: Ireland; ends; British; Empire; 1886

This FLF is driven by an overarching research question: was Ireland a laboratory for the 'ends' of the British Empire as much as it was for its creation (Ohlmeyer; Kenny)?To answer it, this project takes a global, interdisciplinary approach with a collaborative team situated across History, Political Science, International Relations, Public Policy, media, and the creative arts. This team will consider how policymakers and those who implemented policy, anti-colonial activists, Irish settlers and diasporas, and proponents of internationalism, approached the question of Ireland within the British Empire, and how the legacies of those interactions shaped the 'ends' of the Empire system.Part of this project's innovation rests on considering elites, such as colonial administrators and policymakers, alongside activists whose ideas and activities contributed to decolonisation. These groups are rarely in conversation with each other. Nor are they in discussion with public policy practitioners today, who 1) seek to use lessons from the past to adjudicate on future policy 2) manage a fractured post-Brexit British-Irish landscape, with consequences for Northern Ireland, and 3) devise policies to deal with the legacies of the Empire in different national contexts.The first major work package reconstructs a global history of policies and policymakers whose experience working on Irish affairs and drawing 'solutions' for Ireland shaped the exercise of imperial rule in Palestine, Kenya, India, and the construction of the Commonwealth. The second work package takes a global view of anti-colonial activism using the Irish as connective tissue. Black Atlantic intellectuals developing pan-African nationalism looked to Ireland to understand Irish nationalist successes, failures, and contextual differences, shaping pan-African ideas and movements such as Garveyism (Getachew). Indian and Jamaican activists adopted party names, causes and agendas based on Irish models, including 'Home Rule for India', swaraj, and the 'Our Own' movement, modelled on Irish republican party, Sinn Féin, trans. 'Ourselves Alone'(O'Malley). The third and fourth packages address aspects of the changing geopolitical environment during and after the First World War. They explore how diasporic Irish constituencies at senior levels within Ireland and the White Dominions loosened ties from London, while others in Ireland and the USA lobbied for the shaping and breaking of empire using international discourses and organisations, such as the League of Nations. The 'cultural' mechanisms of anti-colonial resistance using music, literature, poetry, and film will be explored in years 5-7. While there was no 'domino effect' of decolonisation, this project follows Darwin (2009) in his claim that the various military, economic, familial, ideological, and cultural components of empire 'ended' at different times and were responsive to dramatically evolving contexts. And my contention is that the Irish were practically, figuratively, and ideologically implicated in them all.The empirical study complements a series of co-designed knowledge exchange activities with non-academic partners, who will be consulted on the design of the academic research from the outset. The partnerships will produce transferable recommendations for other collaborative groups via a series of workshops in three areas: education, public policy, and broadcast TV. In addition, it will deliver project-specific outputs including a graphic novel and Minecraft world computer game (the Nerve Centre), public policy papers (the Bennett Institute, History and Policy, Institute for International and European Affairs), and a TV documentary series (Midas). The timely political climate, with ongoing debates over the Northern Ireland Protocol and Black Lives Matter reviving discussions on empire, is ripe for aiding knowledge exchange and understanding, as well as 'resilience' and 'reconciliation'.

这场FLF是由一个首要的研究问题驱动的：爱尔兰是大英帝国“目的”的实验室，就像它是大英帝国的创建一样（Ohlmeyer;肯尼）？为了回答这个问题，该项目采取了全球性的跨学科方法，与位于历史，政治学，国际关系，公共政策，媒体和创意艺术的合作团队。这个团队将考虑政策制定者和那些执行政策的人，反殖民活动家，爱尔兰定居者和侨民，以及国际主义的支持者，如何在大英帝国内处理爱尔兰的问题，以及这些互动的遗产如何塑造帝国制度的“目的”。与那些为非殖民化做出贡献的思想和活动积极分子并肩作战。这些群体很少相互交谈。他们也没有与今天的公共政策实践者进行讨论，他们1）寻求利用过去的经验教训来判断未来的政策2）管理英国脱欧后破碎的英国-爱尔兰景观，对北方爱尔兰产生影响，和3）第一个主要的工作包重建了政策和政策制定者的经验，致力于爱尔兰事务并为爱尔兰制定“解决方案”，塑造了帝国在巴勒斯坦、肯尼亚、印度的统治，以及英联邦的建设。第二个工作包采取了反殖民主义的全球视野，使用爱尔兰作为结缔组织。发展泛非民族主义的大西洋黑人知识分子把目光投向爱尔兰，以了解爱尔兰民族主义的成功、失败和背景差异，从而形成了加维主义（Getachew）等泛非思想和运动。印度和牙买加的激进分子采用了基于爱尔兰模式的政党名称，原因和议程，包括“印度自治”，swaraj和“我们自己的”运动，模仿爱尔兰共和党新芬党，翻译“我们自己”（奥马利）。第三和第四套方案涉及第一次世界大战期间和之后不断变化的地缘政治环境的各个方面。他们探讨了如何在爱尔兰和白色领地内的高层散居爱尔兰选民放松了与伦敦的联系，而其他人在爱尔兰和美国游说帝国的塑造和打破使用国际话语和组织，如国际联盟。5-7年级将探讨利用音乐、文学、诗歌和电影进行反殖民抵抗的“文化”机制。虽然没有“多米诺骨牌效应”的非殖民化，这个项目遵循达尔文（2009年）在他的主张，各种军事，经济，家庭，意识形态和文化组成部分的帝国“结束”在不同的时间，并响应急剧变化的情况。我的论点是，爱尔兰人实际上，象征性的，和意识形态上都牵连其中。实证研究补充了一系列共同设计的知识交流活动与非学术合作伙伴，谁将在设计的学术研究从一开始就咨询。这些伙伴关系将通过在教育、公共政策和广播电视三个领域举办一系列讲习班，为其他合作团体提出可转移的建议。此外，它还将提供特定项目的产出，包括一部图画小说和《我的世界》电脑游戏（神经中枢）、公共政策文件（班尼特研究所、历史与政策、国际和欧洲事务研究所）以及一部电视纪录片系列（迈达斯）。及时的政治气候，与正在进行的辩论北方爱尔兰议定书和黑人的生命问题恢复讨论帝国，是成熟的帮助知识交流和理解，以及“弹性”和“和解”。