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“Political Atmospherics”: The India Round Table Conference’s Atmospheric Environments, Bodies and Representations, London 1930–1932
Annals of the American Association of Geographers ( IF 3.2 ) Pub Date : 2019-08-26 , DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2019.1630247
Stephen Legg 1
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Between 1930 and 1932 the three sessions of the Round Table Conference in London drew more than seventy Indian delegates to the city, for up to three months, to debate India’s constitutional future within the British Empire. This article argues that the atmosphere of the conference was central to its successes and failures and that studying atmospheres can help us think about the co-constitution of place, bodies, and politics more broadly. It approaches atmospheres from three interrelated perspectives. First, the atmospheric environment of the conference is set, in terms of both the physical geography of the weather and the human geography of the conference venue. Second, it traces conference bodies, which endured the weather, used it as metaphor, and attuned their politics to the affective atmosphere. The article concludes with reflections on representing non-representational atmospheres. It argues that the current atmospheres literature is oddly deraced, while debates about weather and bodies’ reactions to social and political atmospheres are inherently and always racialized. Analyzing the reactions of and to diverse Indian delegates in 1930s London gives us insights into an interwar colonial geographical imagination and demonstrates the potential for thinking about meteorological and affective atmospheres together. Key Words: atmospheres, conferences, imperialism, India, race.



中文翻译:

“政治气氛”:印度圆桌会议的气氛,机构和代表制,伦敦,1930-1932年

在1930年至1932年之间,在伦敦举行的三场圆桌会议吸引了70多名印度代表到伦敦进行长达三个月的辩论,以讨论大英帝国内部印度的宪政前途。本文认为,会议的气氛是会议成败的关键,研究气氛可以帮助我们更广泛地考虑地方,机构和政治的共同构成。它从三个相互关联的角度研究大气。首先,根据天气的自然地理环境和会议地点的人文地理环境来设置会议的大气环境。其次,它追踪了经受天气影响的会议机构,将其用作隐喻,并将他们的政治调整到情感氛围。本文最后总结了代表非代表性气氛的思考。它认为,当前的大气文学被奇怪地贬低了,而关于天气和身体对社会和政治大气的反应的辩论是固有的,并且总是种族化的。通过分析1930年代伦敦不同代表的反应以及伦敦对印度代表的反应,我们可以深入了解两次世界大战之间殖民地的地理想象,并展示出一起思考气象和情感氛围的潜力。关键词:气氛,会议,帝国主义,印度,种族

更新日期:2020-04-20
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