Making a World after Empire: The Bandung Moment and Its Political Afterlives

404 Pages·2010·2.64 MB·English

by  Christopher J. Lee (ed.)

Making a World after eMpire

the bandung moment

and its political afterlives
.
edited by christopher j lee
Making a World aft er Empire
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Making a
World aft er
Empire
THE BANDUNG MOMENT AND
ITS POLITICAL AFTERLIVES
Christopher J. Lee
Ohio University Research in International Studies
Global and Comparative Studies Series No. 11
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Front cover images: Jawaharlal Nehru of India and Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt
(top photo) and Zhou Enlai of China (bottom photo) walking to the conference
hall in Bandung, Indonesia, April 1955. Reprinted courtesy of the Museum of
the Asian-African Conference.
Some of the chapters published in this book have appeared elsewhere
and are reprinted with permission:
Dipesh Chakrabarty, “Th e Legacies of Bandung: Decolonization and the Politics
of Culture,” Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 40, No. 46, 12 November 2005.
Michael Adas, “Contested Hegemony: Th e Great War and the Afro-Asian Assault
on the Civilizing Mission Ideology,” Journal of World History, Vol. 15, No. 1
(2004): 31–63.
Denis M. Tull, “China’s Engagement in Africa: Scope, Signifi cance and Consequences,”
Journal of Modern African Studies, Vol. 44, No. 3 (2006): 459–479.
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Lee, Christopher J.
Making a world aft er empire : the Bandung moment and its political aft erlives /
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1. Asian-African Conference (1st : 1955 : Bandung, Indonesia) 2. Asian-African
Conference (1st : 1955 : Bandung, Indonesia)—Infl uence. 3. Afro-Asian politics. 4.
Asia—Relations—Africa. 5. Africa—Relations—Asia. 6. Imperialism—History—20th
century. 7. Decolonization—Asia—History—20th century. 8. Decolonization—
Africa—History—20th century. I. Title.
DS35.2.L44 2010
327.1'16—dc22 2009053610
Contents
Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Contributors xiii
Introduction
Between a Moment and an Era:
Th e Origins and Aft erlives of Bandung 1
Christopher J. Lee
Part One
Framings: Concepts, Politics, History
Chapter one
Th e Legacies of Bandung:
Decolonization and the Politics of Culture 45
Dipesh Chakrabarty
Chapter Two
Contested Hegemony: Th e Great War
and the Afro-Asian Assault on the Civilizing Mission 69
Michael Adas
Chapter Three
Modeling States and Sovereignty:
Postcolonial Constitutions in Asia and Africa 107
Julian Go
v
Part Two
Alignments and Nonalignments:
Movements, Projects, Outcomes
Chapter Four
Feminism, Solidarity, and Identity in the Age of Bandung:
Th ird World Women in the Egyptian Women’s Press 143
Laura Bier
Chapter Five
Radio Cairo and the Decolonization of East Africa, 1953–64 173
James R. Brennan
Chapter Six
Mao in Zanzibar: Nationalism, Discipline,
and the (De)Construction of Afro-Asian Solidarities 196
G. Th omas Burgess
Chapter Seven
Working Ahead of Time: Labor and Modernization
during the Construction of the TAZARA Railway, 1968–86 235
Jamie Monson
Chapter Eight
Tricontinentalism in Question: Th e Cold War Politics
of Alex La Guma and the African National Congress 266
Christopher J. Lee
Part Three
Th e Present: Predicaments, Practices, Speculation
Chapter Nine
China’s Engagement with Africa:
Scope, Signifi cance, and Consequences 289
Denis M. Tull
vi | Contents
Chapter Ten
Superpower Osama: Symbolic Discourse
in the Indian Ocean Region aft er the Cold War 315
Jeremy Prestholdt
Epilogue
Th e Sodalities of Bandung:
Toward a Critical 21st-century History 351
Antoinette Burton
Select Bibliography 362
Index 384
Contents | vii

Illustrations
Introduction
Introd.1. Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of India
and President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt arrive in Bandung 6
Introd.2. Local popular reception of the arrival of
international delegations in Bandung 9
Introd.3. Premier Zhou Enlai of China with Prime Minister
Ali Sastroamidjojo of Indonesia at the Bandung Airport 11
Introd.4. Premier Zhou Enlai, who was also China’s foreign minis-
ter, delivering his address at the Bandung Conference 13
Introd.5. Th e Liberian delegation in attendance 14
Introd.6. Members of the Gold Coast (Ghana) and Indian
delegations during a recess 16
Chapter 6
6.1. Bruce Lee stamps, Tanzania 226
Chapter 7
7.1. Learning surveying techniques on the job 249
7.2. Presidents Kaunda and Nyerere inspecting
a tunnel at Kisarawe Village with leaders
Jin Hui and Pu Ke, October 1, 1970 251
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