Experts et expertise dans les mandats de la société des nations : figures, champs, outils

• Other Authors: Bourmaud, Philippe (Editor), Neveu, Norig (Editor), Verdeil, Chantal (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Published: Paris Presses de l'Inalco 2020
• Series: TransAireS
• Subjects: International relations; Mandates; Experts; Colonial Empire; League of Nations; Expertise; Development; South
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Expertise in the colonial world can be characterized, more perhaps than in any other context, by the tension between abstract knowledge and acquaintance with the field as inspirations for decision making. The League of Nations mandates instituted after World War I should not be understood as a labor...