Visions of Third Worldism

Giusi Russo is an associate professor of History at Montgomery County Community College in the greater Philadelphia area. Her research focuses on the relationship between the Italian left and intersectionality, as well as the entanglements between bodies and European empires. She is the author of Women, Empires, and Body Politics at the United Nations, 1946–1975 (University of Nebraska Press, 2023) and has published extensively on the colonial history of the United Nations and the construction of colonial narratives. She is currently working on a book project under contract with Routledge, titled, The Aesthetics of Third-Worldism in Italy: Bodies, Spaces, and Oppression.Marco Zoppi is an independent researcher. He holds a MA in African Studies (University of Copenhagen) and a PhD in Histories and Dynamics of Globalization (Roskilde University). His research focuses primarily on diaspora, migration and Euro-African relations. Zoppi is the author of about 50 publications in these fields. He is the editor of the volume Contested Heritage in Europe and Africa: Representation, Commemoration, and Memorialization of a Connected Past, published by Routledge in 2024.

• Chapter 1. Third-Worldism and the Afterlives of Empires.- Chapter 2. History of the transnational connections between Europe and the Third World through the Organisation of Solidarity of the Peoples of Africa, Asia and Latin America (OSPAAAL) and Tricontinental (1966-1990).- Chapter 3. Envisioning a Third Worldist Future: Kéba Mbaye, the Nigeria-Biafra War, and Right to Development, 1968-1972.- Chapter 4. “Il volto e l’anima del Terzo Mondo”: Catholic Allegiances and Marxist Ideologies in the Film Cultural Policies of the Istituto Columbianum (1958-1965).- Chapter 5. Writing on the anticolonial border: notes on Cultura (Luanda), Mensagem (Lisbon) and Imbondeiro (Lubango).- Chapter 6. Universal Regionalisms: Continental Visions of Third-Worldism in Bogotá (1948) and Addis Ababa (1963).- Chapter 7. The United Nations and the Bodily Limitations of Third Worldism, 1950s-1970s.- Chapter 8. Conclusions: Rethinking Third Worldism Across Spaces, Institutions, and Ideologies.