Outputs (13)

Black archives, white philanthropists: Pan-African worldmaking in the interwar United States (2025)
Journal Article
Hodder, J. (2025). Black archives, white philanthropists: Pan-African worldmaking in the interwar United States. Journal of Historical Geography, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.03.003

This paper examines the development of key Pan-African collections in the United States during the interwar period, a time of heightened Pan-African consciousness among African Americans. The emergence of professionally trained Black curators and the... Read More about Black archives, white philanthropists: Pan-African worldmaking in the interwar United States.

Placing Internationalism: International Conferences and the Making of the Modern World (2023)
Book
Legg, S., Heffernan, M., Hodder, J., & Thorpe, B. J. (Eds.). (2023). Placing Internationalism: International Conferences and the Making of the Modern World. Bloomsbury Academic

Exploring how modern internationalism emerged as a negotiated process through international conferences, this edited collection studies the spaces and networks through which states, civil society institutions and anti-colonial political networks used... Read More about Placing Internationalism: International Conferences and the Making of the Modern World.

Introduction (2021)
Book Chapter
Heffernan, M., Hodder, J., Legg, S., & Thorpe, B. (2021). Introduction. In S. Legg, M. Heffernan, J. Hodder, & B. Thorpe (Eds.), Placing Internationalism: International Conferences and the Making of the Modern World. Bloomsbury

Toward an Historical Geography of International Conferencing (2021)
Book Chapter
Heffernan, M., Hodder, J., Legg, S., & Thorpe, B. (2021). Toward an Historical Geography of International Conferencing. In S. Legg, M. Heffernan, J. Hodder, & B. Thorpe (Eds.), Placing Internationalism: International Conferences and the Making of the Modern World. Bloomsbury

Toward a Historical Geography of International Conferencing (2021)
Book Chapter
Heffernan, M., Hodder, J., Legg, S., & Thorpe, B. (2021). Toward a Historical Geography of International Conferencing. In S. Legg, M. Heffernan, J. Hodder, & B. Thorpe (Eds.), Placing Internationalism: International Conferences and the Making of the Modern World (11-36). Bloomsbury Publishing

The Elusive History of the Pan-African Congress, 1919–27 (2021)
Journal Article
Hodder, J. (2021). The Elusive History of the Pan-African Congress, 1919–27. History Workshop Journal, 91(1), 113-131. https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/dbaa032

This paper considers the meetings of the interwar Pan-African Congress movement. It examines the Congress in the context of how conferencing became a dominant mode of international politics in the 1920s and the opportunities this offered to non-state... Read More about The Elusive History of the Pan-African Congress, 1919–27.

The archival geographies of twentieth-century internationalism: Nation, empire and race (2020)
Journal Article
Hodder, J., Heffernan, M., & Legg, S. (2021). The archival geographies of twentieth-century internationalism: Nation, empire and race. Journal of Historical Geography, 71, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2020.06.008

© 2020 The Authors This paper argues that more explicitly geographical methodologies are required to study twentieth-century internationalism, which invite different conversations between international historians and historical geographers. We show h... Read More about The archival geographies of twentieth-century internationalism: Nation, empire and race.

Casting a black Gandhi: Martin Luther King Jr, American pacifists and the global dynamics of race (2019)
Journal Article
Hodder, J. (2019). Casting a black Gandhi: Martin Luther King Jr, American pacifists and the global dynamics of race. Journal of American Studies, 55(1), 48-74. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875819000033

Martin Luther King Jr. is widely read through his association with Gandhi’s ideas and practice. Whilst it is important to neither overstate nor ignore this influence, the paper retraces the work undertaken behind-the-scenes to script this relationshi... Read More about Casting a black Gandhi: Martin Luther King Jr, American pacifists and the global dynamics of race.

On absence and abundance: biography as method in archival research (2017)
Journal Article
Hodder, J. (2017). On absence and abundance: biography as method in archival research. Area, 49(4), https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12329

Geographical scholarship has rightly problematised the act of archival research, showing that practices of archiving are not only concerned with how a society collectively remembers, but also forgets. As such the dominant motif for discussing histori... Read More about On absence and abundance: biography as method in archival research.

Waging peace: militarising pacifism in Central Africa and the problem of geography, 1962 (2016)
Journal Article
Hodder, J. (2017). Waging peace: militarising pacifism in Central Africa and the problem of geography, 1962. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 42(1), 29-43. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12145

Despite the discipline having undergone a ‘peace turn’ in recent years, the history of the peace movement itself remains curiously under explored by geographers. This paper retraces the World Peace Brigade and its collaboration with the Northern Rhod... Read More about Waging peace: militarising pacifism in Central Africa and the problem of geography, 1962.