Students of the World
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-1575-8 (ISBN)
On June 30, 1960—the day of the Congo’s independence—Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba gave a fiery speech in which he conjured a definitive shift away from a past of colonial oppression toward a future of sovereignty, dignity, and justice. His assassination a few months later showed how much neocolonial forces and the Cold War jeopardized African movements for liberation. In Students of the World, Pedro Monaville traces a generation of Congolese student activists who refused to accept the foreclosure of the future Lumumba envisioned. These students sought to decolonize university campuses, but the projects of emancipation they articulated went well beyond transforming higher education. Monaville explores the modes of being and thinking that shaped their politics. He outlines a trajectory of radicalization in which gender constructions, cosmopolitan dispositions, and the influence of a dissident popular culture mattered as much as access to various networks of activism and revolutionary thinking. By illuminating the many worlds inhabited by Congolese students at the time of decolonization, Monaville charts new ways of writing histories of the global 1960s from Africa.
Pedro Monaville is Assistant Professor of History at New York University Abu Dhabi.
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
| Erscheinungsdatum | 25.07.2022 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Theory in Forms |
| Zusatzinfo | 24 illustrations |
| Verlagsort | North Carolina |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 635 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4780-1575-6 / 1478015756 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4780-1575-8 / 9781478015758 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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