Making a World after Empire The Bandung Moment and Its Political Afterlives

Name: Making a World after Empire The Bandung Moment and Its Political Afterlives
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ISBN: 9780896802773

ISBN-10: 0896802779

ISBN-13: 9780896802773

Edition: 2010

Authors: Christopher J. Lee, Christopher J. Lee

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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. Representing approximately two-thirds of the worldrs"s population, the Bandung conference occurred during a key moment of transition in the mid-twentieth century-amid the global wave of decolonization that took place after the Second World War and the nascent establishment of a new cold war world order. Conference participants such as Jawaharlal Nehru of India, Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt, Zhou Enlai of China, and President Sukarno of Indonesia seized this occasion of change to attempt the…

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List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Publication date: 6/15/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Contributors


Introduction: Between a Moment and an Era: The Origins and Afterlives of Bandung




Framings: Concepts, Politics, History



The Legacies of Bandung: Decolonization and the Politics of Culture




Contested Hegemony: The Great War and the Afro-Asian Assault on the Civilizing Mission




Modeling States and Sovereignty: Postcolonial Constitutions in Asia and Africa




Alignments and Nonalignments: Movements, Projects, Outcomes



Feminism, Solidarity, and Identity in the Age of Bandung: Third World Women in the Egyptian Women's Press




Radio Cairo and the Decolonization of East Africa, 1953-64




Mao in Zanzibar: Nationalism, Discipline, and the (De)Construction of Afro-Asian Solidarities




Working Ahead of Time: Labor and Modernization during the Construction of the TAZARA Railway, 1968-86




Tricontinentalism in Question: The Cold War Politics of Alex La Guma and the African National Congress




The Present: Predicaments, Practices, Speculation



China's Engagement with Africa: Scope, Significance, and Consequences




Superpower Osama: Symbolic Discourse the Indian Ocean Region after the Cold War



Epilogue: The Sodalities of Bandung: Toward a Critical 21st-century History



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Index