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Making a world after empire : the Bandung moment and its political afterlives / Christopher J. Lee.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lee, Christopher J., author.
- Series:
- Research in international studies. Global and comparative studies series ; no. 11.
- Ohio University research in international studies. Global and comparative studies series ; number 11
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Afro-Asian politics.
- Imperialism--History--20th century.
- Imperialism.
- Decolonization--Asia--History--20th century.
- Decolonization.
- Decolonization--Africa--History--20th century.
- Asia--Relations--Africa.
- Asia.
- Africa--Relations--Asia.
- Africa.
- Asian-African Conference--(1st : 1955 : Bandung, Indonesia).
- Asian-African Conference.
- Asian-African Conference--(1st : 1955 : Bandung, Indonesia)--Influence.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (417 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Athens : Ohio University Press, [2010]
- Language Note:
- English
- 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. Representing approximately two-thirds of the world'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 in its wake. Participants such as Jawaharlal Nehru of India, Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt, Zhou
- Contents:
- Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Introduction: Between a Moment and an Era:The Origins and Afterlives of Bandung; Part 1: Framings: Concepts, Politics, History; Chapter 1: The Legacies of Bandung; Chapter 2: Contested Hegemony; Chapter 3: Modeling States and Sovereignty; Part 2: Alignments and Nonalignments: Movements, Projects, Outcomes; Chapter 4: Feminism, Solidarity, and Identity in the Age of Bandung; Chapter 5: Radio Cairo and the Decolonization of East Africa, 1953-64; Chapter 6: Mao in Zanzibar; Chapter 7: Working Ahead of Time; Chapter 8: Tricontinentalism in Question
- Part 3: The Present: Predicaments, Practices, SpeculationChapter 9: China's Engagement with Africa; Chapter 10: Superpower Osama; Epilogue; Select Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 362-383) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-89680-468-2
- OCLC:
- 885123172
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