A subtle social and global history of colonization and decolonization.

Starting with oral sources and unpublished writings, this book offers up an original history of the circulation of ideas and models, from the universal to the local. The paradoxical duality of scouting is thus revealed. A (nationalist) instrument dreamt up by Baden-Powell to serve imperial British society, the movement’s pedagogical and ideological model was transferred from Kuala Lumpur to Jakarta for specific national projects.