The Lives of Cold War Afro-Asianism / / ed. by Carolien Stolte, Su Lin Lewis.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
• MitwirkendeR: Abou-El-Fadl, Reem,; Adam, Amza,; Armstrong, Elisabeth,; Broussan, Adeline,; Hoog, Tycho van der,; Jansen, Hanna,; Lewis, Su Lin,; McCann, Gerard,; Nasser, Yasser,; Raza, Ali,; Shimazu, Naoko,; Stolte, Carolien,; Utama, Wildan Sena,; Zhou, Taomo,
• HerausgeberIn: Lewis, Su Lin,; Stolte, Carolien,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Global Connections: Routes and Roots ; 4
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (334 p.)

This book moves away from the focus on high diplomacy which has long marked the history of the “Third Worldism” of the Cold War era. The so-called “Bandung Moment” has tracked the leaders of the decolonizing world from the conference halls of Bandung and Belgrade, to those of the United Nations and beyond. This book seeks to place the spotlight on lesser-known gatherings. It highlights exchanges within the Afro-Asian world that speak to a broader participation in the “Bandung moment”: the participation of activists, intellectuals, cultural figures, and political leaders. This collection thus disrupts hard divisions between state and non-state spaces, as well as between Cold War blocs. Framing the early Cold War as an era of relatively open international exchange, this collection takes these “blurry lines” as a departure point. Using concrete case studies, it engages the fact that in many Cold War era gatherings, one delegation might consist of government officials, while another delegation might be comprised entirely of activists, dissenters, or outright exiles. These gatherings are further contextualized by chapters highlighting both the intellectual and material underpinnings of these Afro-Asian exchanges, bringing into full view the changing social dynamics of Cold War era internationalism in the Afro-Asian world. From the genealogy of ideas used to strengthen Afro-Asian solidarity to the political economy of institutional finance and Cold War patronage, this book tells an interconnected set of stories of cultural and intellectual traffic in the post-colonial era.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- CHAPTER 1 Introduction: The Lives of Cold War Afro-Asianism -- CHAPTER 2 Here and There: A Story of Women’s Internationalism, 1948-1953 -- CHAPTER 3 Résistantes Against the Colonial Order : Women’s Grassroots Diplomacy During the French War in Vietnam (1945-1954) -- Asian-African Solidarity -- CHAPTER 4 Asian Socialism and the Forgotten Architects of Post-Colonial Freedom -- CHAPTER 5 Where was the Afro in Afro-Asian Solidarity? Africa’s ‘Bandung Moment’ -- CHAPTER 6 Asia as a Third Way? J.C. Kumarappa and the Problem of Development in Asia -- The Dead Will Live Eternally -- CHAPTER 7 Delhi versus Bandung: Local Anti-imperialists and the Afro-Asian Stage -- CHAPTER 8 Building Egypt’s Afro-Asian Hub: Infrastructures of Solidarity in 1950s Cairo -- CHAPTER 9 Soviet “Afro-Asians” in UNESCO: Reorienting World History and Humanism -- CHAPTER 10 A Forgotten Bandung : The Afro-Asian Students’ Conference and the Call for Decolonisation -- Yesterday and Today -- CHAPTER 11 Dispatches from Havana : The Cold War, Afro-Asian Solidarities, and Culture Wars in Pakistan -- CHAPTER 12 Microphone Revolution : North Korean Cultural Diplomacy During the Liberation of Southern Africa -- CHAPTER 13 Eqbal Ahmad: An Affective Reading of Afro-Asianism -- CHAPTER 14 Passports to the Post-colonial World : Space and Mobility in Francisca Fanggidaej’s Afro-Asian Journeys -- EPILOGUE Afro-Asianism Revisited -- About the Authors -- Index