Meanings of Bandung: Postcolonial Orders and Decolonial Visions (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781783485659)

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.

Author: Quỳnh N. Phạm
ISBN-10: 1783485655
ISBN-13: 9781783485659
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Language: English
Published: 11/02/2016
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.90w x 0.50d