Christoph Kalter

Discovery of the Third World (eBook, ePUB)

Decolonization and the Rise of the New Left in France, c.1950-1976

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An innovative account of how the concept of the 'Third World' emerged in France from the mid-1950s through to the mid-1970s alongside a new leftist movement. The book reveals how, in an age of Cold War, decolonization and development thinking, French activists rose to prominence within the political Left, established transnational contacts, and developed a new global consciousness. Using the 'Third World' concept to reinvigorate anticolonial solidarity, they supported the Algerian FLN, the Cuban Revolution, and the liberation movements in Vietnam and Portuguese Africa. Insisting on the postcolonial character of France after the end of empire, they promoted new forms of cooperation with developing countries and immigrant workers. Examining the work of French leftists in publications such as Partisans, parties such as the PSU, and associations like the CEDETIM, Kalter sheds new light on a crucial moment in France's history, the global contexts that prompted it, and its worldwide ramifications.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316691922
• Artikelnr.: 52990208

Autorenporträt

Christoph Kalter is a historian of Western Europe in its global connections. Currently Assistant Professor of Global History at Freie Universität Berlin, he was awarded a Ph.D. in Modern History from that same university (2010). His dissertation on Third World solidarity and the radical Left in France has received the Walter-Markov-Prize granted by the European Network in Universal and Global History (ENIUGH). He has since held a fellowship at the University of Berkeley, California, and published on French and Portuguese decolonization in journals such as Geschichte und Gesellschaft and WerkstattGeschichte. He is currently working on his second book, which analyzes postcolonial migrations to Portugal.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: from 'discovery' to historiography
2. A new picture of the world: the Third World in the social sciences and politics
3. Conflicts, new diversity, and convergence: the new radical Left in France
4. 'From the Résistance to anti-colonialism': the politics of memory in the new radical Left
5. 'Today we have to learn a lesson from them': the journal Partisans and the opening up to the Third World
6. 'With socialist greetings': the PSU, the CEDETIM, and the praxis of 'international solidarity'
7. Conclusion: eyes on the world
Bibliography
Index.