Cooperative departments and organizations were a ubiquitous but rarely studied aspect of British colonial governance in the twentieth century. The Co-operative College in Britain provided specialized training in colonial cooperation to students from across the British Empire. The cooperative movement was a key part of the emergence of regimes of development in the decades between the 1920s and 1960s, reflecting their emphasis on modular solutions deployed by experts in an increasingly homogenizing ‘developing world’. However, the colonial and post-colonial students at the Co-operative College were also critical of colonialism and capitalism, participating in the anti-colonial internationalist effort to create a more just post-imperial world. As post-colonial governments retained cooperative structures, the former students of the Co-operative College used the movement as a counter-balance to the larger forces of nationalism and neo-colonialism.

合作部门和组织是 20 世纪英国殖民统治中普遍存在但很少被研究的方面。英国的合作学院为来自大英帝国各地的学生提供殖民合作方面的专业培训。合作运动是 1920 年代至 1960 年代几十年间发展制度出现的关键部分，反映了他们对专家在日益同质化的“发展中世界”中部署的模块化解决方案的重视。然而，合作学院的殖民和后殖民学生也对殖民主义和资本主义持批评态度，参与了反殖民国际主义的努力，以创造一个更加公正的后帝国世界。由于后殖民政府保留了合作结构，