Abstract
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 how the form and location of international archival records is itself evidence of multiple, interlocking modes of internationalism which unevenly intersected with national, imperial, and pan-national pasts. This is explored through three case studies: the archive of the International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation (IIIC), located in the UNESCO headquarters in Paris; the Maharaja Ganga Singh Archive in the Indian city of Bikaner; and the papers of Lydia Brown in New Bedford, Massachusetts, a translator and interpreter at the Second Pan-African Congress. We argue that bringing the archives of large international organisations into dialogue with a wider overlooked field of international archival evidence offers new perspectives on what internationalism was, where it happened, and to whom it mattered.
Highlights
This paper argues that more explicitly geographical methodologies are required to study twentiethcentury internationalism, which invite different conversations between international historians and historical geographers
We argue that bringing the archives of large international organisations into dialogue with a wider overlooked field of international archival evidence offers new perspectives on what internationalism was, where it happened, and to whom it mattered
The three case studies examined in this paper are intended as provocations to open a closer dialogue between international historians and historical geographers
Summary
This paper argues that more explicitly geographical methodologies are required to study twentiethcentury internationalism, which invite different conversations between international historians and historical geographers.
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