The first transnational history of the Nigerian Civil War, exploring how the conflict, initially of marginal interest to much of the world, became 'Biafra', a global protest and media event, and a defining moment in the postcolonial history of humanitarianism, human rights, Holocaust memory and representation of the Third World.
The first transnational history of the Nigerian Civil War, exploring how the conflict, initially of marginal interest to much of the world, became 'Biafra', a global protest and media event, and a defining moment in the postcolonial history of humanitarianism, human rights, Holocaust memory and representation of the Third World.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Lasse Heerten is currently head of the 'Imperial Gateway: Hamburg, the German Empire, and the Making of a Global Port' project, funded by the DFG (German Research Council) at the Freie Universität Berlin. He has previously served as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Human Rights at the University of California, Berkeley, and holds graduate degrees from the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, University of Oxford and the Freie Universität Berlin. His graduate studies were supported by a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes).
Inhaltsangabe
Part I. The Emergences of Biafra: 1. The end of empire and the coming of postcolonial conflict; 2. The Biafran campaign for self-determination in a postcolonial world of states; 3. The transnational internationalization of the Biafran campaign; Part II. Biafra on a Global Stage: 4. Creating 'Biafra': the discovery of a civil war as humanitarian crisis; 5. 'Biafran Babies': humanitarian visions of postcolonial disaster; 6. Auschwitz in Africa? Biafra, Holocaust memory, and the language of rights; 7. Distant suffering and close concerns: Biafra and the Third World in the global Sixties; Part III. The Ends and Afterlives of Biafra: 8. Biafra, the internationalism of states and the question of genocide; 9. The end of Biafra, the end of the lobby; 10. The afterlives of Biafra.
Part I. The Emergences of Biafra: 1. The end of empire and the coming of postcolonial conflict; 2. The Biafran campaign for self-determination in a postcolonial world of states; 3. The transnational internationalization of the Biafran campaign; Part II. Biafra on a Global Stage: 4. Creating 'Biafra': the discovery of a civil war as humanitarian crisis; 5. 'Biafran Babies': humanitarian visions of postcolonial disaster; 6. Auschwitz in Africa? Biafra, Holocaust memory, and the language of rights; 7. Distant suffering and close concerns: Biafra and the Third World in the global Sixties; Part III. The Ends and Afterlives of Biafra: 8. Biafra, the internationalism of states and the question of genocide; 9. The end of Biafra, the end of the lobby; 10. The afterlives of Biafra.
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