Balogun, B (2018) Polish Lebensraum: the colonial ambition to expand on racial terms. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 41 (14). pp. 2561-2579. ISSN 0141-9870
Abstract
Lebensraum – the space a state believes is required for its natural expansion – has a pivotal role in the global expansion projects. Whenever this concept is discussed, it is almost exclusively reduced to the Imperial Russia’s domination of less-stately countries in Central and Eastern Europe; the British exploration and colonization of territories in Africa and Asia; the French settlements in parts of the Caribbean Islands and Africa; the German experimentation in South-West Africa, and the Dutch seaborne competing with the Spanish and Portuguese’s expansionism. Study related to Poland’s attempted acquisition of colonial territories outside Europe is rarely discussed. Drawing on the activities of the Polish Colonial Society, this article contends that the building blocks of colonization were not confined solely to European imperial powers. As colonization forged ahead in the twentieth century, Poland seemed to be the country where colonialism played a significant role in both national and transnational politics.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Ethnic and Racial Studies on 25 Oct 2017, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/01419870.2017.1392028. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Lebensraum; European expansion; Polish colonial society; race; colonization; coloniality |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Sociology and Social Policy (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 01 Nov 2017 11:54 |
Last Modified: | 25 Apr 2019 00:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/01419870.2017.1392028 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:123365 |