All Outputs (10)

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. London: 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. London: Bloomsbury

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.

Toward a geography of black internationalism: Bayard Rustin, nonviolence and the promise of Africa (2016)
Journal Article
Hodder, J. (in press). Toward a geography of black internationalism: Bayard Rustin, nonviolence and the promise of Africa. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 106(6), https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2016.1203284

This article charts the trip made by civil rights leader Bayard Rustin to West Africa in 1952, and examines the unpublished ‘Africa Program’ which he subsequently presented to leading American pacifists. I situate Rustin’s writings within the burgeon... Read More about Toward a geography of black internationalism: Bayard Rustin, nonviolence and the promise of Africa.

Introduction: historical geographies of internationalism, 1900-1950 (2015)
Journal Article
Hodder, J., Legg, S., & Heffernan, M. (2015). Introduction: historical geographies of internationalism, 1900-1950. Political Geography, 49, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2015.09.005

This introduction to a special issue on historical geographies of internationalism begins by situating the essays that follow in relation to the on-going refugee crisis in Europe and beyond. This crisis has revealed, once again, both the challenges a... Read More about Introduction: historical geographies of internationalism, 1900-1950.

Conferencing the international at the World Pacifist Meeting in India, 1949 (2015)
Journal Article
Hodder, J. (2015). Conferencing the international at the World Pacifist Meeting in India, 1949. Political Geography, 49, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2015.03.002

This paper considers how the act of conferencing was central to imagining, negotiating and contesting post-war pacifism as an internationalist project. The paper contends that internationalism and the international conference are inexorably entwined.... Read More about Conferencing the international at the World Pacifist Meeting in India, 1949.