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About: Expansionism is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 979 publications have been published within this topic receiving 11169 citations.


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TL;DR: The authors used Clode's accounts of his experience at Matavai Bay in Tahiti, and his death at Port Jackson, as nodal points through which to trace the moral contours of emergent settler modernities in Pacific Rim worlds.
Abstract: Shocked by the abject failure of the London Missionary Society’s (LMS) first overseas mission to Polynesia, missionaries retreated to New South Wales in 1799 having had their evangelical certainties about morality, culture, religion, and race thoroughly shaken. White settler communities proved almost as disturbing as the islands for the disgraced missionaries. Samuel Clode was brutally murdered soon after arriving; lay missionaries found that their simple communal religious practices would not be tolerated by the established ministers of religion; and co-habiting with convicts, military men, and Aborigines seriously challenged evangelical social mores. John Youl wrote, “no other spot on the face of the Habitable Globe, contains more witnesses of the awful depravity of human Nature” (1801). Humanitarian narratives were central to British evangelical missionary work. Although humanitarian narratives often struggled to emerge in the early Australian colonies given the predominance of aggressive settler expansionism, the isolated voices of individuals associated with evangelical reform deserve attention because they provide troubling accounts of the problems and failures of settler colonialism. This article uses Clode’s accounts of his experience at Matavai Bay in Tahiti, and accounts of his death at Port Jackson, as nodal points through which to trace the moral contours of emergent settler modernities in Pacific Rim worlds. Colonial resistance to evangelical authority by both Europeans and Indigenous people confounded the expectations of the vigorous humanitarian lobby in Britain, and the information garnered by colonial agents provided considerable challenge to European expectations. Yet it also provided considerable ammunition to argue for religious models of the moral empire. In such ways evangelical experiences garnered from colonial locations became part of a globalising knowledge economy and a thriving print culture, which both supported and challenged the dominance of humanitarian narratives.

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30 Jul 1991
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compare two forms of imperialist expansion: the conquest of America and the exploration of outer space, and argue that there is a marked continuity between the two periods of conquest in that open new frontiers of domination.
Abstract: The paper compares two forms of imperialist expansion: the conquest of America and the conquest of outer space. The historical background for the first expansionist drive was the Iberian version of the period known as the Renaissance, and its territorial background was the Americas. The second expansionist drive, in the form of space exploration by the US and the USSR, has been limited temporally to the second half of the twentieth century. The essay proceeds from the principle that these two cases of expansionism formulated different appraisals of an analogous enterprise: the 'discovery' of the New World. Whereas on a historical level there is an obvious discontinuity - sailing vessels are replaced by rockets, horses, by computers, the conquistadors by astronauts, and the past by the present and future - on the level of theoretical interpretation, there is a marked continuity between the two periods of conquest in that open new frontiers of domination.

2 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the literature and the virtual conspiracy rhetoric to explain the conspiratorial perception of globalization considering the exogenous and endogenous factors that maintain the predilection for conspiratorial deductions.
Abstract: Globalization is a complex long-term process with positive and negative effects that inevitably lead to positive and negative opinions. The economic science offers an abstract understanding of the process, seen as the ultimate internationalization of commerce, capital, finances and labor. The anti-globalist side perceives globalization as the engine of a new imperialism, which replaces the old military expansionism with economic instruments. The conspiratorial vision further sustains that globalization is a subversive process, directed for hundreds of years in order to serve the interest of the global elites. This article aims to explain the conspiratorial perception of globalization considering the exogenous and endogenous factors that maintain the predilection for conspiratorial deductions. By analyzing the literature and the virtual conspiracy rhetoric, we found five conditions that allow the perpetuation of conspiracy theories: (1) the historical precedents (2) the discontinuities of modernity (3) the opposing doctrines and the related social categorizing; (4) the lack of certainty and transparency; (5) the persistence of the myth. We consider that globalization was conducted through many forms of imperialism, revealing the human need for power and domination. Even if there is no clear evidence of a major plot to globalize the economy, we can still show that globalization is a process conducted by intention and individual/group interest - in different time periods, sequentially and systematically - and not by the random choices of unorganized individuals seeking the extension of their profits. This is where the conspiratorial reasoning intervenes (“Cui bono?”), bringing several arguments that support the conspiratorial hypothesis: the intentionality in the economic processes, the need for a causal reasoning and the prevailing private interest in the masse-elites relationship.

2 citations

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01 Jan 1992
TL;DR: A good deal of speculation still remains about Chile's role in the Falklands War as mentioned in this paper, despite Chile's hasty and unnecessary proclamation of neutrality in the conflict, and Chile played the role of a mysterious third participant whose presence was more felt than seen.
Abstract: Throughout the Falklands conflict, Chile played the role of a mysterious third participant whose presence was more felt than seen. During the war, the Chilean Falklands factor weighed more heavily in Argentine military strategy than is generally known. Conversely, within the British government, the Chilean connection was considered ‘the most sensitive subject of the war’.1 For these reasons, a good deal of speculation still remains about Chile’s role in the Falklands War. However, the latter was only one expression of Argentina’s territorial expansionism. Argentinian frustration over the failure to seize the Chilean Beagle Channel Islands was an important element in the decision to invade the British Falkland Islands and their Dependencies. Like the Beagle Channel dispute, this aggression was part of a premeditated plan to secure foreign strategic outposts in the South Atlantic and South Pacific areas. Territorial claims were disguised under a game theory of sovereignty whereby any claimed territory would become an imaginary ‘Argentinian sovereign territory’. The Falklands adventure led the Argentine dictatorship to develop a two-front military strategy out of fear of a Chilean military attack — despite Chile’s hasty and unnecessary proclamation of neutrality in the conflict.

2 citations

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TL;DR: The role of Wal-Mart in Brazil by using glocalisation theory is analyzed in this paper. But the focus of the analysis is on the role of the US strategy of management practices, employee standards, low wages, EDLP (every-day-low pricing) for buyers, fierce pressure on suppliers, harsh anti-union policies and aggressive expansionism tendencies.
Abstract: This analysis looks at the role of Wal-Mart in Brazil by using glocalisation theory. Glocalisation refers to the strategies and practices adopted by transnational corporations to cater to local cultures and customs. In the case of Wal-Mart in Brazil, it unsuccessfully attempted to impose the US strategy of management practices, employee standards, low wages, EDLP (every-day-low pricing) for buyers, fierce pressure on suppliers, harsh anti-union policies and aggressive expansionism tendencies. In this, Wal-Mart was met with heavy resistance because it failed to glocalise. However, Wal-Mart changed tack or ‘compromised’ by following glocalisation principles and made deep inroads in the Brazilian market. This analysis is important for two reasons. First because it analyses the functioning of a giant corporation that ventured into unchartered territory from a theoretical perspective; an endeavour that has few scholars have hitherto undertaken. Second, in recent years, there has been scant consideration of the...

2 citations


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YearPapers
202374
2022172
202126
202038
201928
201835