Cover

Reviews

Half-title

Title page

Copyright information

Epigraph

Table of contents

List of Illustrations

List of Contributors

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

The Spirit of Bandung

Understanding Bandung

Situating the Power of Bandung

Bandung in International Law

A Post-Bandung Agenda

Part I. Bandung Histories

1 Anti-Imperialism: Then and Now

Introduction

Imperialism Today

Anti-Imperialism Today

Dealing with Agrarian Crises and Land Grab

Conclusion

2 Newer Is Truer: Time, Space, and Subjectivity at the Bandung Conference

Introduction

Time, Space, and International Law

The Chronotope of Modernity

The Chronotope of International Law

The Chronotope of Imperialism

The Chronotope of Nuclear War

New International Subjects as True International Subjects

Bandung and the Chronotope of Enchantment

Conclusion

3 From Versailles to Bandung: The Interwar Origins of Anticolonialism

Introduction

Origins and Spaces of Interwar Anticolonialism

The League Against Imperialism and for National Independence (1927–1937)

The Year 1933 and Beyond: Surviving Totalitarianism and War

Post-1945 and the Road to Bandung

Conclusion

4 Bandung: Reflections on the Sea, the World, and Colonialism

Poison from Sea

The World Captured

The Commons of Humanity

Alternative Crossings

Ancient Roots Alive

5 Nationalism, Imperialism, and Bandung: Nineteenth-Century Japan as a Prelude

Introduction

Imperialism and Aizawa’s Search for National Spirit

National Spirit in Fukuzawa’s Theory of Civilization

Conclusion

6 Ghostly Visitations: ‘‘Questioning Heirs’’ and the Tragic Tasks of Narrating Bandung Futures

Introduction

Bandung and Its Catastrophes

Satire

Romance

Narrating Bandung as Tragic Event

Inheriting the Specters of Bandung

Bandung & Sons74

Questionable Shapes and ‘‘Questioning Heirs’’

Conclusion

7 Bandung 1955: The Deceit and the Conceit

Introduction

The Deceit of Bandung

Sukarno: Father of the Nation

Kwame Nkrumah: The Redeemer

The Conceit of Bandung

Conclusion

8 Not a Place, but a Project: Bandung, TWAIL, and the Aesthetics of Thirdness

Introduction

Provocations on the Project

Objects, Places, and Projects

An Object: Bandung to Now

Production and Practice: Documenta to Shanghai

An Aesthetic of Thirdness

The Aesthetics of TWAIL

TWAIL and the Aesthetics of Thirdness

Conclusion

Part II. Political Solidarities and Geographical Affiliations

9 Challenging the Lifeline of Imperialism: Reassessing Afro-Asian Solidarity and Related Activism in the Decade 1955–1965

Introduction

The Bandung Conference

The Founding of Afro-Asian Peoples’ Solidarity Organization

AAPSO Activism Related to Anticolonialism

Changing Attitudes to Afro-Asian Solidarity at a State Level

Conclusion

10 Bandung, China, and the Making of World Order in East Asia

Introduction

The Background

China’s Preparation for Bandung

Zhou Enlai at Bandung

Bandung as the Constitution of Afro-Asian Unity

The Enduring Legacy of Bandung for China

The Continued Relevance of Bandung: A Renewed Asian Regionalism

11 Decolonization as a Cold War Imperative: Bandung and the Soviets

Introduction

Bandung as Soviet International Law

Interwar Soviet International Law and Colonialism

Early Soviet International Law in the Service of Colonialism

Soviet Participation at the Bandung Conference

Conclusion

12 Central Asia as an Object of Orientalist Narratives in the Age of Bandung

Introduction

The Contingency of Central Asia

Central Asia’s Place in Soviet Foreign Policy in the 1950s

The Narrative Constructions of Central Asia in Soviet and Western Discourses

Conclusion

13 Latin America during the Bandung Era: Anti-Imperialist Movements vs. Anti-Communist States

Introduction

Interwar Anti-Imperialist Solidarity, Brussels 1927

U.S./LATIN American Cold War Beginnings

Regional Defense and the Rio Treaty, 1947

The Birth of the OAS and a Regional Anticommunist Agenda

OAS Resolution 93 and the Árbenz Overthrow

The OAS and the Cuban Revolution

Final Exclusion of Cuba from the OAS, 1962

Bandung Meets Latin America at the Tricontinental, 1966

Conclusion: Some OAS States Turn to NAM

14 Peripheral Parallels? Europe’s Edges and the World of Bandung

Introduction: Parallel Worlds

Colonialism, Postcolonialism, and the European Periphery

The Peripheralization of the Center, or Europe ‘‘Colonizing Itself’’?

When Parallel Worlds Collide

15 The Bandung Conference and Latin America: A Decolonial Dialogue with Oscar Correas

Introduction

A Marxist-Decolonial Conversation

16 A Triple Struggle: Nonalignment, Yugoslavia, and National, Social, and Geopolitical Emancipation

Introduction

Edvard Kardelj as a Theorist of Self-Determination and NAM

The Difficulties of Kardelj’s International Political Theory

The Constructive Lessons of Kardelj’s Thought

Conclusion

17 ‘‘Let Us First of All Have Unity among Us’’: Bandung, International Law, and the Empty Politics of Solidarity

Introduction

Cultivating Vagueness

Manufactured Legacies

Conclusion

Part III. Nations and Their Others: Bandung at Home

18 The Colonial Debris of Bandung: Equality and Facilitating the Rise of the Hindu Right in India

Introduction

Cultural Distinction and the Rise of the Hindu Nation

Confluence of Equality and Religious Majoritarianism

Conclusion

19 From Bandung 1955 to Bangladesh 1971: Postcolonial Self-Determination and Third World Failures in South Asia

Introduction

1947–1968: India vs. Pakistan

1952 and 1968: Restive Majorities, the Repressive Third World State, and Self-Determination in East Pakistan

Failure to Restrain: Nonalignment, Sovereignty, and Bandung as International Fantasy

Conclusion

20 Reimagining Bandung for Women at Work in Egypt: Law and the Woman between the Factory and the ‘‘Social Factory’’

Introduction

Modernity and Human Rights at Bandung

Bandung in Egypt: State Feminism Through Legal Modernization

Bandung at Home: Egyptian Women between Waged and Unwaged Work

Housework: Beyond Identity and the Rights Discourse

Conclusion

21 Rethinking the Concept of Colonialism in Bandung and Its African Union Aftermath

Introduction

Colonialism: Forms and Manifestations

The African Union

Toward a Broader Conceptualization of Colonialism

Conclusion

22 China and Africa: Development, Land, and the Colonial Legacy

Introduction

Bandung and After: 1955–2000

Resilience of Bandung Despite Shifts in International Law and Ideology

Chinese Approach to Economic Development of Africa

Property Rights and Sovereignty Doctrine

Conclusion

23 Bandung’s Legacy for the Arab Spring

Introduction

Shifting Political Alliances in the Arab Spring

Socioeconomic Roots of Local Resistance

A Milestone for TWAIL

Conclusion

24 Applying the Memory of Bandung: Lessons from Australia’s Negative Case Study

Introduction

Stage 1: The Memory of Bandung vs. The History of Bandung

Stage 2: Australia’s Reaction to Bandung 1955 and 2005 – A Negative Case Study of the ‘Memory’

Australia’s Acceptance of Bandung in 2005

Observations of the Negative Memory of Bandung

Stage 3: Application of Bandung Memory

Conclusion

25 Bandung in the Shadow: The Brazilian Experience

Introduction

Bandung in Context: Brazilian Reactions to the Conference

Brazilian Diplomats in Bandung

Universalistic Sensibilities

Conclusion

Part IV. Postcolonial Agendas: Justice, Rights, and Development

26 The Humanization of the Third World

Introduction

On Humanization

Developmentalism and Sauvy’s Predicament

The Structure of Developmentalism

Postdevelopmentalism: Fragility

Conclusion

27 Bandung’s Legacy: Solidarity and Contestation in Global Women’s Rights

Introduction

Women’s Human Rights and NAM

Population Control and Reproductive Health: A Victory

New Solidarities and New Tensions

Conclusion

28 Reflections on Rhetoric and Rage: Bandung and Environmental Injustice

Introduction

Bandung and the Third World Environment

Revisiting Third World Development Alternatives

Third World Environmentalisms

Environmentalism as a Strategy of Third World Resistance

Conclusion

29 From Statesmen to Technocrats to Financiers: Development Agents in the Third World

Introduction

Statesmen

Technocrats

The Financiers

Conclusion

30 Between Bandung and Doha: International Economic Law and Developing Countries

Introduction

International Law and Policy Space during the Cold War

The Paradox of Globalization: Economic Integration and Political Fragmentation

Fragile Coalitions

Bilateralism and Regionalism Revived

Conclusion

31 The Bandung Ethic and International Human Rights Praxis: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

Introduction

The Bandung Ethic

Continuities

Discontinuities

Conclusion

Part V. Another International Law

32 Bandung and the Origins of Third World Sovereignty

Introduction

The Background

Sovereignty, Civilization, and Panchsheel

Sovereignty, Colonialism, and the Nation-State

Bandung and the Development State

Conclusion

33 Letters from Bandung: Encounters with Another International Law

Introduction

Reclaiming the World

Epistolarity and Ceremony

Rethinking Approaches to Eurocentrism and International Law

Conclusion

Epilogue

34 Altering International Law: Nasser, Bandung, and the Suez Crisis

Background

Justifying Nationalization – Reclaiming Sovereign Dignity

Collective Colonialism contra International Legality

The Materiality of Equal Sovereignty through the Canal and the UN

Conclusion

35 Palestine at Bandung: The Longwinded Start of a Reimagined International Law

Introduction

Who Came to Talk about Palestine (and Who Did Not)

Final Communiqué: Palestine Entrapped in Universal Legal Language

AFTER BANDUNG

36 ‘‘Must Have Been Love’’: The Nonaligned Future of A Warm December

Introduction

Blood

Cancer

Cure?

Observation

Etiology

Prayer

Transcendence

Requiem

Conclusion

37 The Bandung Declaration in the Twenty-First Century: Are We There Yet?

Introduction

Fast Forward

Immigration and Anti-Immigration

Bandung’s Relevance Today

Conclusion

38 Virtue Pedagogy and International Law Teaching

Introduction

Virtue Epistemology

Virtue Pedagogy and Pedagogical Persona

Virtue Pedagogy and International Law Teaching

Conclusion: Parting with Bandung?

Epilogue

The Legacy of Bandung

Introduction

The Law of Nations in the East

The Normalization of the Nation-State

The Internationalism of the Nonaligned

Conclusion

Index