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

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...

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Other Authors: Bourmaud, Philippe (Editor), Neveu, Norig (Editor), Verdeil, Chantal (Editor)
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