Pedro Monaville

Students of the World

Global 1968 and Decolonization in the Congo

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Produktbeschreibung

Pedro Monaville traces a generation of Congolese student activists whose work following the Congo's independence became central to national politics and broader decolonization movements during the global 1960s.

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Produktdetails

• Theory in Forms
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 159mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 660g
• ISBN-13: 9781478015758
• ISBN-10: 1478015756
• Artikelnr.: 62546941

Autorenporträt

Pedro Monaville is Assistant Professor of History at New York University Abu Dhabi.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Memory Work in the Age of Cinq Chantiers  ix
Note on Toponyms  xvii
Acknowledgments  xix
Introduction. The School of the World  1
Interlude I. Postal Musings  20
1. Distance Learning and the Production of Politics  23
2. Friendly Correspondence with the Whole World  42
Interlude II. To Live Forever Among Books  63
3. Paths to School  65
4. Dancing the Rumba at Lovanium  84
Interlude III. To the Left  103
5. Cold War Transcripts  109
6. Revolution in the (Counter)revolution  129
7. A Student Front  144
Interlude IV. The Dictator and the Students  161
8. (Un)natural Alliances  166
9. A Postcolonial Massacre and Caporalisation in Mobutu's Congo  179
Epilogue. The Gaze of the Dead  201
Notes  213
Bibliography  287
Index  323