The lives of Cold War Afro-Asianism / edited by Carolien Stolte and Su Lin Lewis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stolte, Carolien, editor.

Lewis, Su Lin, 1979- editor.

Series:

Global connections (Leiden University Press) ; 4.

Global connections: routes and roots ; 4

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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (339 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Leiden University Press, 2022.

Summary:

The Afro-Asianism of the early Cold War has long remained buried under the narrative of Bandung, homogenising and subverting the different visions of post-colonial worldmaking that co-existed alongside the Bandung project. This book turns the lens on these other visions, and the transnational interactions which emerged from various other gatherings of the 1950s and 1960s that existing beyond the realm of high diplomacy, while blurring the lines between state and non-state projects. It examines how Afro-Asianism was lived by activists, intellectuals, cultural figures, as well as political leaders in building a post-imperial world - particularly women. As a whole, this collection of essays examines the diversity of Afro-Asian ideals that emerged through such movements, untangling the personal relationships, political competition, racial hierarchies, and solidarities that shaped them. By visualising political Afro-Asianism and its proponents as a living network, a fuller picture of decolonization and the Cold War is brought into view.

Contents:

Introduction : the lives of Cold War Afro-Asianism / Su Lin Lewis and Carolien Stolte

Here and there : a story of women's internationalism, 1948-1953 / Elisabeth Armstrong

Resistantes against the colonial order : women's grassroots diplomacy during the French war in Vietnam (1945-1954) / Adeline Broussan

Asian socialism and the forgotten architects of post-colonial freedom / Su Lin Lewis

Where was the Afro in Afro-Asian solidarity? Africa's 'Bandung moment' / Gerard McCann

Asia as a third way? J.C. Kumarappa and the problem of development in Asia / Yasser Nasser

Delhi versus Bandung : local anti-imperialists and the Afro-Asian stage / Carolien Stolte

Building Egypt's Afro-Asian hub : infrastructures of solidarity in 1950s Cairo / Reem Abou-El-Fadl

Soviet "Afro-Asians" in UNESCO : reorienting world history and humanism / Hanna Jansen

A forgotten Bandung : the Afro-Asian Students' Conference and the call for decolonization / Wildan Sena Utama

Dispatches from Havana : the Cold War, Afro-Asian solidarities, and culture wars in Pakistan / Ali Raza

Microphone revolution : North Korean cultural diplomacy during the liberation of Southern Africa / Tycho van der Hoog

Eqbal Ahmad : an affective reading of Afro-Asianism / Amza Adam

Passports to the post-colonial world : space and mobility in Francisca Fanggidaej's Afro-Asian journeys / Taomo Zhou

Epilogue. Afro-Asianism revisited / Naoko Shimazu.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Nov 2024).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789400604346

9400604343

OCLC:

1349448061