Meanings of Bandung: Postcolonial Orders and Decolonial Visions

Qu?nh N. Ph?m (Curatore)

Robbie Shilliam (Curatore)

Rowman & Littlefield International, 2016

The Bandung Conference was the seminal event of the twentieth century that announced, envisaged and mobilized for the prospect of a decolonial global order. It was the first meeting of Asian and African states, most of which were newly independent, to promote Afro-Asian economic and cultural cooperation and to oppose colonialism or neocolonialism by any nation. This book focuses on Bandung not only as a political and institutional platform, but also as a cultural and spiritual moment, in which formerly colonized peoples came together as global subjects who, with multiple entanglements and aspirations, co-imagined and deliberated on a just settlement to the colonial global order. It conceives of Bandung not just as a concrete political moment but also as an affective touchstone for inquiring into the meaning of the decolonial project more generally. In sum, the book attends to what remains woefully under-studied: Bandung as the enunciation of a different globalism, an alternative web of relationships across multiple borders, and an-other archive of sensibilities, desires as well as fears.

• Curatore: Qu?nh N. Ph?m, Robbie Shilliam
• Editore: Rowman & Littlefield International
• Anno: 2016
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 256 p.
• Dimensioni: 236 x 161 mm
• Peso: 513 gr.
• EAN: 9781783485642

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