Lives of Cold War Afro-Asianism

Carolien Stolte is Senior Lecturer at Leiden University, the Netherlands. Her research focuses on the international history of South Asia. She co-led, with Su-Lin Lewis, the AHRC Research Network “Afro-Asian Networks in the Early Cold War". Su Lin Lewis is Associate Professor in Modern Global History at the University of Bristol.  Her monograph, Cities in Motion: Urban Life and Cosmopolitanism in Southeast Asia 1920-1940 was published by Cambridge in 2016. She co-led, with Carolien Stolte, the AHRC Research Network “Afro-Asian Networks in the Early Cold War”.

• Table of Contents 1. Introduction: The Lives of Cold War Afro-Asianism (Su Lin Lewis and Carolien Stolte ) 2. Here and There, a Story of Women’s Internationalism, 1948-1953 (Elisabeth Armstrong) 3. Résistantes Against the Colonial Order: Women’s Grassroots Diplomacy during the French War in Vietnam, 1945-1954 (Adeline Broussan) Interlude 4. Asian Socialism and the Forgotten Architects of Postcolonial Freedom (Su Lin Lewis) 5. Where was the ‘Afro’ in Afro-Asian Solidarity? Africa’s Bandung Moment in 1950s Asia (Gerard McCann) 6. Asia as a Third Way? J.C. Kumarappa and the Problem of Development in Asia (Yasser Nasser) Interlude 7. Delhi versus Bandung: Local Anti-Imperialists and the Afro-Asian Stage (Carolien Stolte) 8. Building Egypt’s Afro-Asian Hub: Infrastructures of Solidarity in 1950s Cairo (Reem Abou-El-Fadl) 9. Soviet “Afro-Asians” in UNESCO: Re-Orienting World History and Humanism (Hanna Jansen) 10. A Forgotten Bandung: The Afro-Asian Students Conference and the Call for Decolonisation (Wildan Sena Utama) Interlude 11. Dispatches from Havana: The Cold War, Afro-Asian Solidarities, and Culture Wars in Pakistan (Ali Raza) 12. Microphone Revolution: North Korean Cultural Diplomacy During the Liberation of Southern Africa (Tycho van der Hoog) 13. Eqbal Ahmad: an Affective Reading of Afro-Asianism (Amza Adam) 14. Passports to the Postcolonial World: Space and Mobility in Francisca Fanggidaej’s Afro-Asian Journeys (Taomo Zhou) Epilogue: Afro-Asianism Revisited (Naoko Shimazu) About the Authors Index