Bandung, global history, and international law critical pasts and pending futures

In 1955, a conference was held in Bandung, Indonesia that was attended by representatives from twenty-nine nations. Against the backdrop of crumbling European empires, Asian and African leaders forged new alliances and established anti-imperial principles for a new world order. The conference came t...

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Other Authors: Eslava, Luis (Editor), Fakhri, Michael (Editor), Nesiah, Vasuki (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2017
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Collection: Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: List of Illustrations; List of Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The Spirit of Bandung; Part I. Bandung Histories: 1. Anti-Imperialism: Then and Now; 2. Newer is Truer: Time, Space, and Subjectivity at the Bandung Conference; 3. From Versailles to Bandung: The Interwar Origins of Anti-Colonialism; 4. Bandung: Reflections on the Sea, the World, and Colonialism; 5. Nationalism, Imperialism, and Bandung: Nineteenth-Century Japan as a Prelude; 6. Ghostly Visitations: "Questioning Heirs" and the Tragic Tasks of Narrating Bandung Futures; 7. Bandung 1955: The Deceit and the Conceit; 8. Not a Place, But a Project: Bandung, TWAIL, and the Aesthetics of Thirdness; Part II. Political Solidarities and Geographical Affiliations: 9. Challenging the Lifeline of Imperialism: Reassessing Afro-Asian Solidarity and Related Activism in the Decade 1955-1965; 10. Bandung, China, and the Making of World Order in East Asia; 11.
  • Decolonization as a Cold War Imperative: Bandung and the Soviets; 12. Central Asia As An Object of Orientalist Narratives in the Age of Bandung; 13. Latin American Anti-Imperialist Movements and Anti-Communist States during the Bandung Era; 14. Peripheral Parallels? Europe's Edges and the World of Bandung; 15. The Bandung Conference and Latin America: A Decolonial Dialogue with Oscar Correas; 16. A Triple Struggle: Non-alignment, Yugoslavia, and National, Social and Geopolitical Emancipation; 17. "Let Us First of All Have Unity Among Us": Bandung, International Law, and the Empty Politics of Solidarity; Part III. Nations and Their Others: Bandung at Home: 18. The Colonial Debris of Bandung: Equality and Facilitating the Rise of the Hindu Right in India; 19. From Bandung 1955 to Bangladesh 1971: Postcolonial Self-Determination and Third-World Failures in South Asia; 20. Reimagining Bandung for Women at Work in Egypt: Law and the Woman Between the Factory and the "Social Factory"; 21.
  • Rethinking the Concept of Colonialism in Bandung and its African Union Aftermath; 22. China and Africa: Development, Land, and the Colonial Legacy; 23. Bandung's Legacy for the Arab Spring; 24. Applying the Memory of the Bandung: Lessons from Australia's Negative Case Study; 25. Bandung in the Shadow: The Brazilian Experience; Part IV. Post-Colonial Agendas: Justice, Rights and Development: 26. The Humanization of the Third World; 27. Bandung's Legacy: Solidarity and Contestation in Global Women's Rights; 28. Reflections on Rhetoric and Rage: Bandung and Environmental Injustice; 29. From Statesmen to Technocrats to Financiers: Development Agents in the Third World; 30. Between Bandung and Doha: International Economic Law and Developing Countries; 31. The Bandung Ethic and International Human Rights Praxis: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow; Part V. Another International Law: 32. Bandung and the Origins of Third World Sovereignty; 33.
  • Letters from Bandung: Encounters with Another International Law; 34. Altering International Law: Nasser, Bandung, and the Suez Crisis; 35. Palestine at Bandung: The Longwinded Start of a Re-Imagined International Law; 36. "Must Have Been Love": The Non-Aligned Future of 'A Warm December'; 37. The Bandung Declaration in the Twenty-First Century: Are We There Yet?; 38. Virtue Pedagogy and International Law Teaching; Epilogue: The Legacy of Bandung; Index