Sunday, March 14, 2021

Parr: Solving world problems: the Indian women’s movement, global governance, and ‘the crisis of empire’, 1933–46

Rosalind Parr (Univ. of St. Andrews - History) has published Solving world problems: the Indian women’s movement, global governance, and ‘the crisis of empire’, 1933–46 (Journal of Global History, Vol. 16, no. 1, March 2021). Here's the abstract:
This article examines global processes of decolonization through an analysis of Indian women’s interactions with world governance during the interwar ‘crisis of empire’. This distinct form of activism asserted anti-colonial claims through engagements with transnational civil society networks and the social work of the League of Nations and the International Labour Office. In doing so, it undermined imperial legitimacy, shifted the terms of liberal internationalism, and prepared the ground for later developments at the United Nations.