CHAIRPERSON
Prof Ted Hopf, Asia Research Institute, and Department of Political Science, National University of Singapore
ABSTRACT
How do the colonized and the colonizer relate to each other after decolonization? This study considers this question from the perspective of India and Britain using data from research on British and Indian identities conducted under the auspices of ‘Making Identity Count.’ By accessing and analyzing mass and elite texts such as popular movies, high school textbooks, and leadership speeches in ten year intervals from 1950 to the present, this project supplies unique and valuable information on the evolution of the post-colonial Self-Other relations—that is, on ‘Britain’s India’ and ‘India’s Britain’ in the entire time period in which these two have related to each other as independent nations. In addition to contributing to knowledge on why nations relate to each other the way they do, this study also probes scope conditions for reconciliation after empire.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Srdjan Vucetic is Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the Ohio State University. His research interests are international hierarchy: he is the author of The Anglosphere: A Genealogy of a Racialized Identity in International Relations (Stanford, 2011) and is currently working on a book on postwar British foreign policy.
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