The ceremonial theatre of honours also had direct and lasting appeal: a letter from the prime minister, a public announcement in The Times , the medals and above all the chance to meet the Queen at an honours investiture. What Britain saw instead of Gandhian revolution were individual moments of rebellion and scandal. A dozen or so current holders of the Order returned their medals in protest. I was told my award was for bravery, but there is nothing brave in yarping at a howling mob of teenagers while you have a million pounds in the bank.
The more people who received honours, the more they cared about who else received them. His renunciation was widely reported, but once again the government did not formally rescind the honour. When Lennon was killed in , he was still officially an MBE, just as the other Beatles remained on the rolls of the Order, and Tagore remained Sir Rabindranath in the eyes of the state until his death.
Tagore, Lennon and other anticolonial and anti-Beatles protestors understood state honours in a very different way. To them, these gestures were full of meaning. In fact, they were what gave the honours system an increasingly large part of its enduring significance in decolonising societies. This was true of India, where British titles retained a stigma.
But it was also true in a different way in former settler colonies that continued to use aspects of the British system, such as Canada, Australia and New Zealand. In all of these nations, the legacy of the British system became entangled in debates about national identity, settler colonialism and their relationship to Britain.
These publics were divided over the meaning and value of British honours and titles. They wanted to know how their honour, or the honour that their hero received, reflected their relationships to their neighbours, other people in the wider empire, and to national and imperial institutions.
More honours more broadly conferred meant greater popular interest. This could mean embracing or rejecting the system.
National liberation movements hoped to escape the deferential hierarchies of empire. But honours and hierarchy survived the end of the empire, and even proliferated in Britain and some former colonies. How and whether to decouple citizens from the British systems of hierarchy and loyalty proved to be a more difficult and more lasting problem than nationalists had hoped.
His gesture was one of reinvention rather than refusal. As an international artist who engages with the history of empire and the ambiguities of postcolonial African cultural identity, Shonibare has found it more useful to accept the honour and use it to remind audiences of the imperial legacy than to renounce it.
He and others have repurposed the symbolism of the Order for a postcolonial world. The empire is mostly gone, but the Order of the British Empire lives on in meaningful ways. Space exploration. Instead of treating Mars and the Moon as sites of conquest and settlement, we need a radical new ethics of space exploration. Ramin Skibba. They are spreading like branching plants across the globe. Should we rein cities in or embrace their biomorphic potential? Josh Berson.
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