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Southern African Liberation Movements and the Global Cold War 'East': Transnational Activism 1960-1990

Southern African Liberation Movements and the Global Cold War 'East': Transnational Activism 1960-1990

Dallywater, Lena
Saunders, Chris
Adegar Fonseca, Helder

Hardcover

Series: Dialectics of the Global, Book 4

African History

ISBN10: 311063886X
ISBN13: 9783110638868
Publisher: de Gruyter Oldenbourg
Published: Jun 17 2019
Pages: 214
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

In the global context of the Cold War, the relationship between liberation movements and Eastern European states obviously changed and transformed. Similarly, forms of (material) aid and (ideological) encouragement underwent changes over time. The articles assembled in this volume argue that the traditional Cold War geography of bi-polar competition with the United States is not sufficient to fully grasp these transformations. The question of which side of the ideological divide was more successful (or lucky) in impacting actors and societies in the global south is still relevant, yet the Cold War perspective falls short in unfolding the complex geographies of connections and the multipolarity of actions and transactions that exists until today. Acknowledging the complexities of liberation movements in globalization processes, the papers thus argue that activities need to be understood in their local context, including personal agendas and internal conflicts, rather than relying primarily on the traditional frame of Cold War competition. They point to the agency of individual activists in both Africa and Eastern Europe and the lessons, practices and languages that were derived from their often contradictory encounters.

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