{"id":60187,"date":"2020-09-17T17:49:47","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T17:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60187"},"modified":"2020-09-17T17:50:22","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T17:50:22","slug":"un-mixing-in-the-mandate-purity-and-persistence-of-german-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=60187","title":{"rendered":"(Un-)mixing in the Mandate: purity and persistence of \u2018German-time\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Un-)mixing in the Mandate: purity and persistence of \u2018German-time\u2019<\/strong><\/em>
\nin New Guinea<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Chapter in: Norig Neveu, Philippe Bourmaud and Chantal Verdeil (Eds), Experts et expertise dans les mandats de la Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 des Nations: figures, champs et outils, [The Expert in the Mandate]<\/em><\/a>, Inalco Presses, 2020<\/p>\n

Christine Winter<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor and Matthew Flinders Fellow in History
\nFlinders University of South Australia<\/em>
\nCollege of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences<\/em>
\nSouth Australia, Australia<\/em><\/p>\n

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“Unmixing” is a central term in the debates to bring stability and peace after WWI<\/a> by ethnically homogenising regions and new nations: \u201c\u2026 to unmix tlie (sic) populations of the Near East<\/a> will tend to secure the true pacification of the Near East\u2026\u201d (Fritzhof Nansen, Lausanne Conference, Quoted by Sadia Abbas<\/a>, Unmixing, Politicalconcept<\/em>s, 2012.) So how did the nations with aspirations to ‘rule’ New Guinea<\/a> deal with what could not be ‘un-mixed’: people of mixed descent, and what did this mean for German-New Guineans?<\/p>\n

This chapter is an exploration of Weimar<\/a> and Nazi German<\/a> colonialism focusing on the Pacific Mandates<\/a>. It focuses on leagies of German colonialism after the end of the formal German colonial empire. The crisis of the League of Nations<\/a> destabilized the legitimacy of Mandate rule<\/a> in the Pacific<\/a> during the mid-1930s. Purity and persistence of Germanness became a theme for both the Mandate Administration and the Third Reich<\/a>. In this chapter I explore the role and function of Germans of ambiguous racial belonging, namely mixed-race German Pacific Islanders<\/a>, in a wider contest of expert advice and policy development. Racial scientists, German missionaries and ex-colonial officials all had a stake in the future of the Mandated Territories<\/a>, and its mixed-race German population. Depending on the argument and on their place of residency \u2013 Germany<\/a> or the Pacific \u2013 mixed-race German-Pacific Islanders were used as fellow Germans or as \u2018natives\u2019 to legitimize German claims.<\/p>\n

Read the chapter draft here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Un-)mixing in the Mandate: purity and persistence of \u2018German-time\u2019 in New Guinea Chapter in: Norig Neveu, Philippe Bourmaud and Chantal Verdeil (Eds), Experts et expertise dans les mandats de la Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 des Nations: figures, champs et outils, [The Expert in the Mandate], Inalco Presses, 2020 Christine Winter, Associate Professor and Matthew Flinders Fellow in History […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1933,459,8,4405],"tags":[31166,24660,2948,31161,26206,4408,31163,31165,31162],"class_list":["post-60187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-bookchapter","category-history","category-media-archive","category-oceania","tag-chantal-verdeil","tag-christine-winter","tag-germany","tag-inalco-presses","tag-nazi-germany","tag-new-guinea","tag-norig-neveu","tag-philippe-bourmaud","tag-weinmar-republic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60187"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60189,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60187\/revisions\/60189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}