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Afro-Asian Networks in the Early Cold War, 1945-1960

冷战初期的亚非网络，1945 年至 1960 年

基本信息

批准号：
AH/N003020/1
负责人：
Su Lin Lewis
金额：
$ 4.04万
依托单位：
University of Bristol
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2015
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2015 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FN003020%2F1
关键词：
Afro Asian Networks Early Cold

项目摘要

This project relates to the AHRC research theme 'Care for the future: thinking forward through the past'. It contributes to our understanding of the social history of globalisation, decolonization, and civil society. It examines the experiences of the early Cold War from the point of view of the Global South. By focusing on the transnational activities of non-state actors rather than heads of state, the project leaders seek to highlight global networks and communities that have so far remained unexamined.The 1950s constituted an era of transformation, where decolonization and patronage from competing Cold War powers created opportunities for new alliances among people across the colonial and post-colonial world. Recently, scholars have given renewed attention to major diplomatic initiatives - namely the 1955 Bandung conference of Afro-Asian nations - in the political imagining of a new world order. But this was also a decade of intensive social and cultural exchange among nonstate actors. Across Asia and Africa, intellectuals, activists, and revolutionaries explored new vectors of solidarity across national, linguistic and ideological borders. Artists, poets, and performers experimented with new ideas and techniques for intellectual and cultural expression to create new visions of the nation. They engaged critically with communist, socialist and democratic ideas in circulation, constantly reformulated their political loyalties, and built up networks of intellectual and radical sociability. This project explores conversations and alliances that helped shape a generation of Asian and Africans seeking to transform their societies within a new world order.The project seeks to break out of national and regional boundaries between South, Southeast, and East Asia, and between Asia and Africa, to look at transnational and trans-regional exchanges across these areas. By understanding the way in which non-state actors used these networks, we hope to illuminate our understanding of the effects of soft power initiatives and mentalities of internationalism on the formation of civil society in the Global South.The main component of the project is a Collaborative Research Week in Amsterdam in January 2016, where fourteen participants, mostly early-career researchers, will work together in the archives of the International Institute of Social History, which holds one of the most important collections of social and emancipatory movements from around the world.The project leaders believe that the best results are to be gained when specialists on different regions are given the opportunity to connect their findings in 'real-time' with specialists on other regions than their own. The week will consist of an introductory seminar, informal meetings, and seminars with senior Netherlands-based scholars of colonialism and decolonization familiar with the archives.This research week will be followed by an international conference in Bristol in September 2016, during which researchers will present their written findings to a larger audience made up of scholars from a range of academic institutions and disciplinary perspectives, as well as non-academic stakeholders. We will also invite participants of the "Socialism goes global network", to examine connections between the Second and Third World within the context of decolonization.The outputs of this grant include a special journal issue, a public website, as well as a public engagement event as part of the University of Bristol History Department's 'Past Matters' Festival. The event, 'Third World Networks Past and Present', will allow us to profile our research in dialogue with Asian and African activists who make use of transnational networks in the contemporary world. This debate about the strengths, limitations, and periods of success for Afro-Asian networks will feed into a History and Policy Working Paper on the international origins of civil society in the Global South.

该项目与AHRC的研究主题“关爱未来：回顾过去”有关。它有助于我们理解全球化、非殖民化和公民社会的社会史。它从全球南方的角度审视了冷战早期的经历。通过关注非国家行为体而不是国家元首的跨国活动，项目领导人试图突出迄今为止尚未得到审查的全球网络和社区。20世纪50年代是一个转型的时代，在这个时代，非殖民化和冷战中相互竞争的大国的赞助为殖民和后殖民世界各国人民之间的新联盟创造了机会。最近，学者们重新关注主要的外交倡议- -即1955年亚非国家万隆会议- -对世界新秩序的政治设想。但这也是非国家行为体之间进行密集社会和文化交流的十年。在亚洲和非洲，知识分子、活动家和革命者探索了跨越民族、语言和意识形态边界的团结新途径。艺术家、诗人和表演者尝试了知识和文化表达的新思想和新技术，以创造国家的新愿景。他们以批判的态度对待共产主义、社会主义和民主思想，不断重塑自己的政治忠诚，建立起知识分子和激进分子的社交网络。本项目探讨了帮助塑造了一代寻求在新的世界秩序中改变其社会的亚洲和非洲人的对话和联盟。该项目旨在打破南亚、东南亚和东亚以及亚洲和非洲之间的国家和地区界限，着眼于这些地区的跨国和跨地区交流。通过了解非国家行为体使用这些网络的方式，我们希望阐明我们对软实力倡议和国际主义心态对全球南方公民社会形成的影响的理解。该项目的主要组成部分是2016年1月在阿姆斯特丹举行的合作研究周，其中14名参与者，大多数是早期职业研究人员，将在国际社会历史研究所的档案中一起工作，该研究所拥有来自世界各地的社会和解放运动最重要的收藏之一。项目负责人认为，当不同地区的专家有机会将他们的发现与其他地区的专家“实时”联系起来时，将获得最佳结果。这一周将包括介绍性研讨会、非正式会议和与熟悉档案的荷兰殖民主义和非殖民化资深学者的研讨会。在这个研究周之后，2016年9月将在布里斯托尔举行一次国际会议，在此期间，研究人员将向来自一系列学术机构和学科视角的学者以及非学术利益相关者组成的更多观众展示他们的书面研究结果。我们还将邀请“社会主义走向全球网络”的参与者在非殖民化的背景下审查第二世界和第三世界之间的联系。这项资助的产出包括一个特别期刊，一个公共网站，以及作为布里斯托尔大学历史系“过去的事情”节的一部分的公众参与活动。这个名为“第三世界网络的过去与现在”的活动，将使我们能够与在当代世界利用跨国网络的亚洲和非洲活动家对话，介绍我们的研究。这场关于亚非网络的优势、局限和成功时期的辩论，将成为一份关于全球南方公民社会国际起源的历史与政策工作文件的内容。