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Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Colonial and Postcolonial World, 1870-1940
Before communism, anarchism and syndicalism were central to labour and the Left in the colonial and postcolonial world.Using studies from Africa,Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America, this groundbreaking volume examines the revolutionary libertarian Left's class politics and anti-colonialism in the first globalization and imperialism(1870/1930).
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Powerful Frequencies
Powerful Frequencies details the central role that
radio technology and broadcasting played in the formation of
colonial Portuguese Southern Africa and the postcolonial
nation-state, Angola. In Intonations, Marissa J. Moorman
examined the crucial relationship between music and Angolan
independence during the 1960s and '70s. Now, Moorman turns to the
history of Angolan radio as an instrument for Portuguese settlers,
the colonial state, African nationalists, and the postcolonial
state. They all used radio to project power, while the latter
employed it to challenge empire.
From the 1930s introduction of radio by settlers, to the
clandestine broadcasts of guerrilla groups, to radio's use in the
Portuguese counterinsurgency strategy during the Cold War era and
in developing the independent state's national and regional voice,
Powerful Frequencies narrates a history of canny
listeners, committed professionals, and dissenting political
movements. All of these employed radio's
peculiarities-invisibility, ephemerality, and its material
effects-to transgress social, political, \"physical,\" and
intellectual borders. Powerful Frequencies follows radio's
traces in film, literature, and music to illustrate how the
technology's sonic power-even when it made some listeners anxious
and frightened-created and transformed the late colonial and
independent Angolan soundscape.
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Disentangling consciencism
This book critically explores the depths of Nkrumah's philosophical thought in order to broaden understanding of it and measures his contributions to contemporary thought in a world in which Africa totters precariously on the peripheries of intellectual influence on human experience.
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Revolution, counterrevolution and assassination after World War II : a global history
\"In response to the upheavals engendered by World War II, revolutions broke out or loomed throughout the world. Nationalist aspirations proved global in nature, ironically empowered by the Cold War. In Asia, the Middle East, Latin America and Africa, revolutions and counterrevolutions proliferated, and similar disruptions threatened to unfold in Europe and North America. Social upheavals began to occur in Vietnam, Mandatory Palestine, China, Algeria, Ghana and Cuba. Conservative and reactionary forces frequently pushed back, quashing hopeful developments like the Guatemalan Spring, the Hungarian Revolution, and the Prague Spring, while also readily resorting to the murder of leading progressive figures from Gandhi to Navalny. The second volume of this detailed history explores the rippling effects of World War II across the globe, including countries experiencing colonial or neocolonial relationships. This book examines the interplay between modern revolutionary movements and campaigns seeking to prevent such movements or to reestablish a history and time that never really existed. It also traces the deadly resort to politically motivated killings, which cut short the lives of so many distinguished, sometimes beloved figures whose loss is still felt decades later.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Palestinian diaspora : formation of identities and politics of homeland
From the refugee camps of the Lebanon to the relative prosperity of life in the USA, the Palestinian diaspora has been dispersed across the world. In this pioneering study, Helena Lindholm Schulz examines the ways in which Palestinian identity has been formed in the diaspora through constant longing for a homeland lost. In so doing, the author advances the debate on the relationship between diaspora and the creation of national identity as well as on nationalist politics tied to a particular territory. But The Palestinian Diasporaalso sheds light on the possibilities opened up by a transnational existence, the possibility of new, less territorialized identities, even in a diaspora as bound to the idea of an idealized homeland as the Palestinian. Members of the diaspora form new lives in new settings and the idea of homeland becomes one important, but not the only, source of identity. Ultimately though, Schulz argues, the strong attachment to Palestine makes the diaspora crucial in any understandings of how to formulate a viable strategy for peace between Israelis and Palestinians.
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The Inevitable Pipeline into Exile
The role played by Botswana in various southern African liberation struggles has previously been neglected in historical studies. The country’s politics of support and mobilisation early on in Namibia’s struggle for independence from South Africa proved crucial for the formative period of both nation states. Botswana’s difficult and contradictory position as neighbour of the South African apartheid state and colonial power in Namibia are carefully dealt with, as are the challenges faced by the fragile Namibian refugee networks and liberation movements, SWANU and SWAPO, operating in Botswana for decades. “The Inevitable Pipeline into Exile” deals with a crucial phase of nationalism and transnational politics during the period of southern African decolonisation at the height of South Africa’s diplomatic and military aggression throughout the region.
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