The Discovery of the Third World: Decolonization and the Rise of the New Left in France, C.1950-1976

ISBN-13: 9781107074514 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 516 str.

Christoph Kalter

Opis

This book explores the emergence of 'Third Worldism' as a new intellectual movement during the era of decolonisation and the Cold War.

Recenzje

'Kalter's hugely impressive study … essays a variety of disciplinary approaches: conceptual history, political history, intellectual history, exemplary archival and oral history, memory studies, and media studies.' Martin Shipway, The American Historical Review

Spis treści

1. Introduction: from 'discovery' to historiography; 2. A new picture of the world: the Third World in the social sciences and politics; 3. Conflicts, new diversity, and convergence: the new radical Left in France; 4. 'From the Résistance to anti-colonialism': the politics of memory in the new radical Left; 5. 'Today we have to learn a lesson from them': the journal Partisans and the opening up to the Third World; 6. 'With socialist greetings': the PSU, the CEDETIM, and the praxis of 'international solidarity'; 7. Conclusion: eyes on the world; Bibliography; Index.