“No Colonial Baggage”: Imagining a Decolonised Australia-Africa Relations

IF 0.6 4区 社会学 Q1 HISTORY Australian Journal of Politics and History Pub Date : 2023-09-05 DOI:10.1111/ajph.12948
Muhammad Dan Suleiman, Christopher Isike, David Mickler
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As part of its strategy to win African votes for election to the UN Security Council (2008–12), Canberra sought to leverage its soft power potential by presenting Australia as having “no colonial baggage” in Africa while framing Australia as “a country from the Global North, located in the Global South,” and one that would “work with other small and middle powers.” Ultimately, the campaign was successful, including up to 50 of Africa's 54 countries voting for Australia. This paper considers this framing in the context of a shared but differentiated colonial history, including its contradictions, given that Australians fought several wars on African soil on behalf of the British Empire, supported white minority regimes and anti-communist movements on the continent, and maintained the white Australia policy until the 1970s. The paper deploys decoloniality theory to engage Australia's lack of a neat fit within a historicised articulation of a “coloniser-colonised” relationship between Europe and Africa. We show that, despite this lack of fit, Australia's relations with the countries of Africa reinforce long-standing of patterns of knowledge, power, and being associated with colonialism. Accordingly, the paper makes three recommendations for cooperation and innovative thinking in foreign policy and diaspora diplomacy between Africa and a more independent and multicultural Australia based on the “equality of being.”

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“没有殖民行李”:想象非殖民化的澳非关系
作为赢得非洲选票参加联合国安理会选举(2008-2012年)战略的一部分,堪培拉试图利用其软实力潜力,将澳大利亚描述为在非洲“没有殖民包袱”,同时将澳大利亚定义为“一个来自全球北方、位于全球南方的国家”,以及一个“与其他中小大国合作”的国家,这场运动取得了成功,非洲54个国家中有50个投票支持澳大利亚。鉴于澳大利亚人代表大英帝国在非洲土地上打了几场战争,支持非洲大陆的白人少数民族政权和反共运动,并一直维持到20世纪70年代,本文将这一框架置于共同但有区别的殖民历史的背景下,包括其矛盾。该论文运用非殖民化理论来解决澳大利亚在欧洲和非洲之间“殖民者殖民”关系的历史化表述中缺乏巧妙契合的问题。我们表明,尽管澳大利亚与非洲国家缺乏契合,但它与非洲国家的关系强化了长期以来的知识、权力模式,并与殖民主义联系在一起。因此,本文提出了三项建议,以促进非洲与一个基于“存在平等”的更加独立和多元文化的澳大利亚在外交政策和侨民外交方面的合作和创新思维
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期刊介绍: The Australian Journal of Politics and History presents papers addressing significant problems of general interest to those working in the fields of history, political studies and international affairs. Articles explore the politics and history of Australia and modern Europe, intellectual history, political history, and the history of political thought. The journal also publishes articles in the fields of international politics, Australian foreign policy, and Australia relations with the countries of the Asia-Pacific region.
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Issue Information Issue Information Western Australia July to December 2023 Commonwealth of Australia July to December 2023 Issues in Australian Foreign Policy July to December 2023
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