Format:
1 Online-Ressource (365 Seiten).
ISBN:
978-1-4780-2298-5
Series Statement:
Theory in forms
Content:
On June 30, 1960-the day of the Congo's independence-Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba gave a fiery speech in which he conjured a definitive shift away from a past of colonial oppression toward a future of sovereignty, dignity, and justice. His assassination a few months later showed how much neocolonial forces and the Cold War jeopardized African movements for liberation. In Students of the World, Pedro Monaville traces a generation of Congolese student activists who refused to accept the foreclosure of the future Lumumba envisioned. These students sought to decolonize university campuses, but the projects of emancipation they articulated went well beyond transforming higher education. Monaville explores the modes of being and thinking that shaped their politics. He outlines a trajectory of radicalization in which gender constructions, cosmopolitan dispositions, and the influence of a dissident popular culture mattered as much as access to various networks of activism and revolutionary thinking. By illuminating the many worlds inhabited by Congolese students at the time of decolonization, Monaville charts new ways of writing histories of the global 1960s from Africa
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover ISBN 978-1-4780-1575-8
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Paperback ISBN 978-1-4780-1837-7
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
DOI:
10.1515/9781478022985
DOI:
10.1215/9781478022985
URL:
Volltext
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URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
