Caleb Ward
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Social and political philosophy, feminism and social change, almost done with a book on the philosophy of Audre Lorde
Postdoc at Uni Hamburg
Photo by Frank Ward, 1999
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![A 1921 Literary Digest map titled “Map of Palestine (British Mandate)”, depicting the territory administered by Britain under the League of Nations Mandate. The map outlines the borders of Palestine, neighbouring Syria and Egypt, and major cities such as Jerusalem, Jaffa, Haifa, Gaza, and Amman. It marks railroads, principal highways, and regions “below sea level”, with shaded zones indicating definite and tentative mandate boundaries. The image visualises the political geography of a League of Nations Class A mandate: territory carved from the Ottoman Empire and placed under European administration “until such time as [its] peoples are able to stand alone”.
Context: In Hegel and Colonialism, we argue that this form of hierarchical sovereignty echoed Hegel’s philosophy of history, which framed colonial domination as an “educational stage” in the world-spirit’s progress toward freedom. The Mandate system’s logic of tutelage – administering “not-yet-mature” nations until “ready” for self-government – reproduced Hegel’s view that freedom develops unevenly across climates and peoples. British Idealists like Edward Caird and Jan Smuts adapted these ideas, recasting empire as a moral duty to guide “backward” peoples toward civilisation. Article 22 of the League’s Covenant codified this rationale by formalising graded classes of sovereignty, institutionalising a hierarchy of political maturity.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pha7lndgj24ehdpzagq6ziu2/bafkreicabapbjb5zcjc7nag7hbrupfqek3myvq6visfmdiouwlofrzyp6u@jpeg)
