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The discovery of the Third World : decolonization and the rise of the New Left in France, c .1950-1976 / Christoph Kalter ; translated by Thomas Dunlap.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kalter, Christoph, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Entdeckung der Dritten Welt. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- New Left--France--History--20th century.
- New Left.
- Radicals--France--History--20th century.
- Radicals.
- Decolonization--Developing countries--History--20th century.
- Decolonization.
- Anti-imperialist movements--France--History--20th century.
- Anti-imperialist movements.
- Anti-imperialist movements--History--20th century.
- World politics--1945-1989.
- World politics.
- France--Relations--Developing countries.
- France.
- Developing countries--Relations--France.
- Developing countries.
- France--Politics and government--1945-.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xviii, 498 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- An innovative account of how the concept of the 'Third World' emerged in France from the mid-1950s through to the mid-1970s alongside a new leftist movement. The book reveals how, in an age of Cold War, decolonization and development thinking, French activists rose to prominence within the political Left, established transnational contacts, and developed a new global consciousness. Using the 'Third World' concept to reinvigorate anticolonial solidarity, they supported the Algerian FLN, the Cuban Revolution, and the liberation movements in Vietnam and Portuguese Africa. Insisting on the postcolonial character of France after the end of empire, they promoted new forms of cooperation with developing countries and immigrant workers. Examining the work of French leftists in publications such as Partisans, parties such as the PSU, and associations like the CEDETIM, Kalter sheds new light on a crucial moment in France's history, the global contexts that prompted it, and its worldwide ramifications.
- Contents:
- Introduction: From "Discovery" to Historiography
- A New Picture of the World : The Third World in the Social Sciences and Politics
- Conflicts, New Diversity, and Convergence : The New Radical Left in France
- "From the Résistance to Anti-Colonialism" : The Politics of Memory in the New Radical Left
- "Today We Have to Learn a Lesson from Them" : The Journal Partisans and the Opening Up to the Third World
- "With Socialist Greetings" : The PSU, the Cedetim, and the Praxis of "International Solidarity"
- Conclusion: Eyes on the World
- Appendix.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 06 Sep 2016).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-316-69192-6
- 1-316-69282-5
- 1-316-69297-3
- 1-316-69312-0
- 1-316-69372-4
- 1-107-42645-6
- 1-139-69690-4
- 1-316-69327-9
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