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DESCRIPTION:This paper examines United States conservative discourses on th
 e national liberation struggles in Zimbabwe and South Africa. It takes as 
 its sources the publications of National Review\, an influential New Right
  conservative magazine\, and makes two main arguments. First\, it contends
  that NR’s opposition to the liberation struggles of Zimbabwe and South 
 Africa\, as well as its support for the White-minority regimes in these st
 ates\, was animated by White Supremacism and racial thinking. NR held that
  the “African mind” was not yet suited for democracy and prone to trib
 al and irrational thinking. This challenges previous studies which primari
 ly locate New Right reticence towards southern African liberation struggle
 s in anti-Communism and Cold War realpolitik. Second\, the paper argues th
 at in the 1980s NR revived a discourse of colonial developmentalism to opp
 ose self-rule in South Africa. In this view\, African subjects were unfit 
 for democracy due to their socioeconomic conditions: they needed White tut
 elage along with free markets and free trade in order to become “rationa
 l” political actors and full citizens. This is important because it demo
 nstrates that modern discourses of development were often imbued with the 
 logic of colonial racism in ways that scholars have failed to account for
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LOCATION:Room 304 PC Desk (Seats 36)
SUMMARY:Decolonization in Black and White: William Buckley’s Racialized F
 oreign Policy in Southern Africa - Julian Polanski
URL:https://pretalx.com/wha-annual-meeting-korea-2026/talk/ZTXGBB/
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