The Lives of Cold War Afro-Asianism

Carolien Stolte, Su Lin Lewis

• Publisher: Leiden University Press
• Year: 2022
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9789400604346
• Subtopic: Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
• Index: History

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 existed 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.

Table of contents

• 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