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Whose Commonwealth? Negotiating Commonwealth Day in the 1950s and 1960s
No full textThis ambivalence over what role the Commonwealth should have and whether Britain should orientate itself instead to Europe are well captured in Anna Bocking-Welch’s chapter on the celebration of ‘Commonwealth Day’ in Britain during the 1950s and 1960s. The transmutation of ‘Empire’ into ‘Commonwealth’ Day brought to the surface mordant introspection about the purpose of commemoration and celebration. Not only was it unclear precisely what was being celebrated, there was also much soul-searching about the forms celebration should take. Bocking-Welch identifies three different phases in the Commonwealth Relations Office’s approach to the question of celebration in this period, highlighting tensions and ambivalence about whether government or voluntary organisations should take the lead, as well as what the message should be. There were competing efforts to promote a ‘People’s Commonwealth’ and significant differences in emphasis between ‘new’ and ‘old’ members. By the mid-1960s, these approaches to Commonwealth celebration began to cohere into a pronounced role for the monarchy, highlighting Queen Elizabeth’s symbolic role as head of the Commonwealth, and an emphasis on multi-cultural and multi-faith inclusivity
Petitioning and People Power in Twentieth-Century Britain
No full textIn their contribution, Bocking-Welch, Huzzey, Leston-Bandeira and Miller set out their historico-political approach to the investigation of petitioning as a practice over a one-hundred-year period. In this context, specific petitions or even public discussion of specific petitions provide trace data for exploring the practices which produced them. Rather than a single, stable set of practices, Bocking-Welch, Huzzey, Leston-Bandeira and Miller show those practices are embedded in, shape and are shaped by wider social, cultural and political contexts. By tracing petitioning outwards to these varied contexts, they expand the notion of the political by expanding our understanding of where politics happens and what is involved
Welch (Holmes) Seidel( Anna) éd Facets of Taoism. Essays in Chinese Religion
No full textAubin Françoise. Welch (Holmes) Seidel( Anna) éd Facets of Taoism. Essays in Chinese Religion. In: Archives de sciences sociales des religions, n°50/2, 1980. pp. 351-353
Holmes Welch, Anna Seidel (éd.), Facets of Taoism. Essays in Chinese Religion,
No full textRobinet I. Holmes Welch, Anna Seidel (éd.), Facets of Taoism. Essays in Chinese Religion,. In: Annales. Économies, Sociétés, Civilisations. 38ᵉ année, N. 2, 1983. pp. 321-322
British Aid to El Salvador, 1970 - 2009: Foreign Policy, Humanitarianism, and Solidarity
No full textThis thesis analyses British aid to El Salvador between 1970 and 2009. Aid in this context encompasses government aid (bilateral aid, arms sales and development aid), humanitarian aid and solidarity aid. Through the use of oral history interviews and archival research, this thesis seeks to establish the extent and impact of the different facets of British aid, looking at British foreign policy, humanitarian action and solidarity. In doing so, the thesis highlights a wide variety of organisations (including the British government, British Catholic NGOs such as CAFOD and CIIR, and solidarity organisations such as ESCHR, ELSSOC and ESNET) that played crucial roles in providing aid to El Salvador, analysing their different methods, aims and motivations. The different approaches of each of these organisations combined to result in a wide-reaching, broad appeal aid programme, run by a complicated network of organisations and individuals. British foreign policy towards El Salvador was limited in financial value, but stringent anti-communism and loyalty to the US resulted in increasing support for the Salvadoran government in the 1980s. Humanitarian NGOs such as CAFOD and CIIR, meanwhile, responded to the humanitarian disaster caused by the civil conflict, led by the guiding principle of the preferential option for the poor. The widespread human rights violations being committed by the Salvadoran government against its own people provoked outrage around the world and prompted widespread campaigns to apply pressure on the Salvadoran government in the hope of ending the violations. The British public took up this cause with enthusiasm, resulting in a thriving El Salvador solidarity movement in Britain that focused on three main areas; human rights, partisan political support and personal relationships. A cursory look at the existing historiography suggests that Britain had a very minimal relationship with El Salvador. However, as is demonstrated, there was actually a sustained, varied aid programme that adapted to the changing context in El Salvador. Thus, this thesis argues that British aid to El Salvador between 1970 and 2009 was, in fact, widespread, long-lasting and varied, encompassing governments, humanitarian NGOs, church groups, trade unions, and many other actors on the British left, and, therefore is deserving of much more consideration and analysis than it currently receives
Human Rights and British Foreign Policy, c. 1977-1997: An Intellectual Biography of David Owen
No full textIn the rapidly expanding historiography on human rights and their growing presence within international relations during the second half of the twentieth century, British foreign policy perspectives remain largely underappreciated. Focussing on David Owen’s sustained engagement with the related concepts of human rights and humanitarianism from his tenure as UK Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary to his influential role in lobbying the New Labour Government of Tony Blair as a member of the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict, this thesis addresses this striking omission by exploring the relationship between international human rights promotion and British foreign policy between c. 1977-97. Consequently, this thesis contributes to ongoing historiographical debates surrounding the elevation of human rights considerations within foreign policy decision making, examining how Owen’s advocacy reflected broader trends concerning the contested ‘breakthrough’ of human rights during the 1970s and their influence in international relations thereafter. The thesis finds that while there is much to support the notion, well-established within the existing literature, that the 1970s constituted a pivotal moment in the history of human rights, a preoccupation with the identification of such epochal ruptures risks overlooking the ways in which human rights ideas had been shaped by earlier developments and continued to evolve subsequently. Furthermore, in the process of highlighting the fragmented and highly contingent nature of human rights history, this thesis underscores the need to be attentive to the creation of distinctive human rights “vernaculars” that reflected the ideas that historical actors brought to them, and the political purposes they intended to serve by articulating their claims in the language of human rights. By bringing these issues and debates into focus through the lens of Owen’s long-standing commitment to human rights, this thesis also offers a fresh perspective on one of the most recognisable, albeit enigmatic, parliamentarians in recent British history. Both within the confines of Whitehall and without, Owen’s advocacy served to alter the course of British foreign policy at key junctures during the late Cold War and early post-Cold War periods, and provides a unique prism through which to interrogate the intersections between Britain’s enduring search for a distinctive ‘role’ in the world and the development of the international human rights regime during the period in question
The Parapostcolonial: Interdisciplinary Perspectives and New Approaches [Special Issue of: Postcolonial Text. 9.4]
No full textAn Article About Albertus C. Van Raalte, Author Unknown, Except for Parts Taken from an Article by Anna C. Post
No full textAn article about Albertus C. Van Raalte, author unknown, except for parts taken from an article by Anna C. Post. The author knew first generation persons in the Holland settlement and therefore, the article has some value.https://digitalcommons.hope.edu/vrp_1890s/1012/thumbnail.jp
Episode 8 : Seeking Asylum in 2019 Part 2
No full textPart 2 of our conversation with Professor Anna Welch and Emily Arvizu focuses on how the current state of immigration in the United States impacts all Americans. We wrap up with a discussion about the education of and demand for immigration lawyers, with a particular focus on the work being done by the University of Maine School of Law’s Refugee and Human Rights Clinic to guide noncitizens through the immigration and asylum seeking processes
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