Making a world after empire : the Bandung moment and its political afterlives. / Christopher J Lee.
Material type: TextPublisher number: Brijwasi Book Distributors | H-87,Lalita Park, Laxmi Nagar, New Delhi-110092Publication details: Athens : Ohio University Press , ©2010Description: xv, 400 pages : illustrations :24cmISSN: 9780896802773Genre/Form: International relations.DDC classification: 327.116 LEEItem type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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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.
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, Zho.
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