Contributor
Lee, Christopher J. editor.
Edition Statement:Second edition, expanded and updated.
Imprint[Athens, Ohio] : Ohio University Press, 2019.
Descriptionxxxix, 400 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.
Note:Introduction. Between a moment and an era: the origins and afterlives of Bandung / Christopher J. Lee -- Part one. Framings: concepts, politics, history -- The legacies of Bandung: decolonization and the politics of culture / Dipesh Chakrabarty -- Contested hegemony: the Great War and the Afro-Asian assault on the civilizing mission / Michael Adas -- Modeling states and sovereignty: postcolonial constitutions in Asia and Africa / Julian Go -- Part two. Alignments and nonalignments: movements, projects, outcomes -- Feminism, solidarity, and identity in the age of Bandung: third world women in the Egyptian women's press / Laura Bier -- Radio Cairo and the decolonization of East Africa, 1953-64 / James R. Brennan -- Mao in Zanzibar: nationalism, discipline, and the (de)construction of Afro-Asian solidarities / G. Thomas Burgess -- Working ahead of time: labor and modernization during the construction of the TAZARA railway, 1968-86 / Jamie Monson -- Tricontinentalism in question: the Cold War politics of Alex La Guma and the African National Congress / Christopher J. Lee -- Part three. The present: predicaments, practices, speculation -- China's engagement with Africa: scope, significance, and consequences / Denis M. Tull -- Superpower Osama: symbolic discourse in the Indian Ocean region after the Cold War / Jeremy Prestholdt -- Epilogue. The sodalities of Bandung: toward a critical 21st-century history / Antoinette Burton.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 362-383) and index.
Note:In April 1955, twenty-nine countries from Africa, Asia, and the Middle East came together for a diplomatic conference in Bandung, Indonesia, intending to define the direction of the postcolonial world. Ostensibly representing two-thirds of the worlds population, the Bandung conference occurred during a key moment of transition in the mid-twentieth centuryamid the global wave of decolonization that took place after the Second World War and the nascent establishment of a new Cold War world order in its wake. Participants such as Jawaharlal Nehru of India, Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt, Zhou Enlai of China, and Sukarno of Indonesia seized this occasion to attempt the creation of a political alternative to the dual threats of Western neocolonialism and the Cold War interventionism of the United States and the Soviet Union. The essays collected here explore the diverse repercussions of this event, tracing diplomatic, intellectual, and sociocultural histories that ensued as well as addressing the broader intersection of postcolonial and Cold War history. With a new foreword by Vijay Prashad and a new preface by the editor, Making a World after Empire speaks to contemporary discussions of decolonization, Third Worldism, and the emergence of the Global South, thus reestablishing the conferences importance in twentieth-century global history.
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