Making a World after Empire: The Bandung Moment and Its Political Afterlives (Volume 11) (Ohio RIS Global Series)

*A Choice Significant University Press Title for Undergraduates, 2010-11* 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. Conference participants such as Jawaharlal Nehru of India, Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt, Zhou Enlai of China, and President Sukarno of Indonesia seized this occasion of change to attempt the creation of a political alternative to the dual threats of Western neocolonialism and the cold war interventionism of the United States and the Soviet Union. This collection of essays speaks to contemporary discussions of empire and decolonization and explores the precursors and afterlives of the Bandung moment. Making a World after Empire reestablishes the conference's importance in the global history of the twentieth century. Michael Adas, Laura Bier, James R. Brennan, G. Thomas Burgess, Antoinette Burton, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Julian Go, Christopher J. Lee, Jamie Monson, Jeremy Prestholdt, Denis M. Tull 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, Zhou Enlai of China, and Ahmed Sukarno of Indonesia seized this occasion to attempt the creation of a political alternative to the dual threats of Western neocolonialism and the cold war interventionism of the United States and the Soviet Union.The essays in this volume explore the diverse repercussions of this event, tracing the diplomatic, intellectual, and sociocultural histories that have emanated from it. Making a World after Empire consequently addresses the complex intersection of postcolonial history and cold war history and speaks to contemporary discussions of Afro-Asianism, empire, and decolonization, thus reestablishing the conference's importance in twentieth-century global history. Contributors: Michael Adas, Laura Bier, James R. Brennan, G. Thomas Burgess, Antoinette Burton, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Julian Go, Christopher J. Lee, Jamie Monson, Jeremy Prestholdt, Denis M. Tull Between a moment and an era: the origins and afterlives of Bandung / Christopher J. Lee -- The legacies of Bandung: decolonization and the politics of culture / Dipesh Chakrabarty -- Contested hegemony: the Great War and the Afro-Asian assault on the civilizing mission / Michael Adas -- Modeling states and sovereignty: postcolonial constitutions in Asia and Africa / Julian Go -- Feminism, solidarity, and identity in the age of Bandung: third world women in the Egyptian women's press / Laura Bier -- Radio Cairo and the decolonization of East Africa, 1953-64 / James R. Brennan -- Mao in Zanzibar: nationalism, discipline, and the (de)construction of Afro-Asian solidarities / G. Thomas Burgess -- Working ahead of time: labor and modernization during the construction of the TAZARA Railway, 1968-86 / Jamie Monson -- Tricontinentalism in question: the Cold War politics of Alex La Guma and the African National Congress / Christopher J. Lee -- China's engagement with Africa: scope, significance, and consequences / Denis M. Tull -- Superpower Osama: symbolic discourse in the Indian Ocean after the Cold War / Jeremy Prestholdt -- The sodalities of Bandung: toward a critical 21st-century history / Antoinette Burton. This collection of essays contributes to contemporary discussions of empire and decolonization, and explores the precursors and afterlives of the 1955 diplomatic conference in Bandung.