Format:
xxiv, 341 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Karte
ISBN:
9781478015758
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9781478018377
Series Statement:
A theory in forms book
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"--
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 291-321
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Distance learning and the production of politics -- Friendly correspondence with the whole world -- Paths to school -- Dancing the rumba at Lovanium -- Cold War transcripts -- Revolution in the (counter-)revolution -- A student front -- (Un)natural alliances -- A postcolonial massacre and Caporalisation in Mobutu's Congo.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781478022985
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Monaville, Pedro Students of the world Durham : Duke University Press, 2022 ISBN 9781478022985
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Monaville, Pedro Students of the world Durham : Duke University Press, 2022 ISBN 9781478022985
Language:
English
Keywords:
Demokratische Republik Kongo
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Studentenbewegung
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Entkolonialisierung
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Geschichte 1960-1997
