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

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Making a World after Empire, The Bandung Moment and Its Political Afterlives
Language
eng
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Making a World after Empire
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Series statement
Research in International Studies, Global and Comparative Studies
Sub title
The Bandung Moment and Its Political Afterlives
Summary
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
Table Of Contents
Intro -- Praise for Making a World after Empire -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction: Between a Moment and an Era: The Origins and Afterlives of Bandung -- Part One: Framings: Concepts, Politics, History -- Chapter 1: The Legacies of Bandung: Decolonization and the Politics of Culture -- Chapter 2: Contested Hegemony: The Great War and the Afro-Asian Assault on the Civilizing Mission -- Chapter 3: Modeling States and Sovereignty: Postcolonial Constitutions in Asia and Africa -- PART TWO: Alignments and Nonalignments: Movements, Projects, Outcomes -- Chapter 4: Feminism, Solidarity, and Identity in the Age of Bandung: Third World Women in the Egyptian Women's Press -- Chapter 5: Radio Cairo and the Decolonization of East Africa, 1953-64 -- Chapter 6: Mao in Zanzibar: Nationalism, Discipline, and the (De)Construction of Afro-Asian Solidarities -- Chapter 7: Working Ahead of Time: Labor and Modernization during the Construction of the TAZARA Railway, 1968-86 -- Chapter 8: Tricontinentalism in Question: The Cold War Politics of Alex La Guma and the African National Congress -- Part Three: The Present: Predicaments, Practices, Speculation -- Chapter 9: China's Engagement with Africa: Scope, Significance, and Consequences -- Chapter 10: Superpower Osama: Symbolic Discourse in the Indian Ocean Region after the Cold War -- Epilogue: The Sodalities of Bandung: Toward a Critical 21st-Century History -- Select Bibliography -- Index
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