What Does Pak Yong-sim in the Excavated Footage Tell You (Or Not)?: The Cinematic Presence of the Photographic Survivor and the Cold War Knowledge Regime of Post/Colonial Archives

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 679-709
Author(s):  
Han Sang Kim
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Knowledge Regime ◽  
Colonial Archives ◽  
The Cold War

scholarly journals Decolonization in, of and through the archival “moving images” of artistic practice

2016 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 131-152
Author(s):  
Ana Balona de Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
African Continent ◽  
Artistic Practice ◽  
History And Memory ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Migrant Communities ◽  
Moving Images ◽  
Colonial Empire ◽  
Colonial Archives ◽  
The Cold War

This essay investigates the ways in which contemporary artistic practices have been working towards an epistemic and ethico-political decolonization of the present by means of critical examinations of several sorts of colonial archives, whether public or private, familial or anonymous. Through the lens of specific artworks by the artists Ângela Ferreira, Kiluanji Kia Henda, Délio Jasse, Daniel Barroca and Raquel Schefer, this essay examines the extent to which the aesthetics of these video, photographic and sculptural practices puts forth a politics and ethics of history and memory relevant to thinking critically about the colonial amnesias and imperial nostalgias which still pervade a post-colonial condition marked by neo-colonial patterns of globalization and by uneasy relationships with diasporic and migrant communities. Attention will be paid to the histories and memories of the Portuguese dictatorship and colonial empire, the liberation wars / the “colonial” war fought in Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau between 1961 and 1974, the Carnation Revolution in Portugal in 1974, the independence of Portugal’s former colonies between 1973 and 1975, and the mass “return” of Portuguese settlers from Angola and Mozambique in 1975, without losing sight of apartheid South Africa and the ways in which the Cold War played out on the African continent.

The Homeland Debate, Redux: The Political–Cultural Impact of the 1946–1949 Repatriation to Soviet Armenia

2020 ◽  
pp. 84-125
Author(s):  
Tsolin Nalbantian
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
The Political ◽  
Cultural Impact ◽  
National Belonging ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Armenian Identity ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Heating Up

Chapter 2 deals with the 1946-1949 Soviet repatriation drive to collect all worldwide Armenians and “return” them to the ASSR and, specifically, the Lebanese Armenian political-cultural understandings of it. I explore how that initiative formed a chapter of Lebanese (and other Middle Eastern) Armenians’ renegotiation of national belonging in early post-colonial times. And although about a third of all Armenian repatriates travelled via Beirut, I also look at those who remained in Lebanon and in other countries in the Middle East. The emerging Cold War was more than a backdrop to this story. Heating up, the Cold War – and the very divergent readings of, and responses to, the repatriation initiative among Lebanese Armenians – reinforced tensions between Armenian rightists and leftists. Armenians’ response to repatriation did not simply reflect their extant political-cultural positions. Rather, repatriation sharpened those positions. Responses to repatriation echoed issues on the changing Lebanese/Syrian/Armenian identity complex at the dawn of the post-colonial nation-state. The responses to repatriation included a retelling and a reconstitution of the history of the tragedy of the genocide. They also automatically triggered questions about the location and nature of the Armenian homeland, adding fuel to the division between Dashnaks and Armenian leftists.

Peripheral eyes: Brazilians and India, 1947–61

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 122-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ananya Chakravarti
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Colonial Experience ◽  
European Colonialism ◽  
The Third World ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Second World

AbstractThe post-Second World War era witnessed the need for new political forms to accommodate the aspirations for national identity of newly decolonized nations within the hegemonic structure of the Cold War. Although both Cold War historiography and postcolonial studies have analysed these phenomena, the place of Latin America in general and Brazil in particular remains fraught with conceptual difficulties, largely due to the very different (post)colonial experience of this region from the rest of the ‘Third World’. This article examines how three Brazilian intellectuals and diplomats observed India from its independence until the annexation of Portuguese India by the Indian Union in 1961. In exploring their peripheral gaze, it shows how Brazilian self-identification with the West, and particularly its complex relationship with the heritage of European colonialism, prevented a truly commensurable experience, despite a sense of commonality with India based on their peripheral position in the global political structure.

Concerning Violence: A Post-Colonial Reading of the Debate on the Use of Force

2016 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANNE-CHARLOTTE MARTINEAU
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Use Of Force ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The Law ◽  
Legal Concepts ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Alternative Reading

AbstractThis article examines the debate on the use of force ‘from the periphery’, both in the geographical sense and outside the mainstream discourse. It offers an alternative reading of the evolution of the law on the use of force, starting not with the end of the Cold War, but with the process of decolonization. My argument is that this reading is missing from the debate framed as an opposition between a restrictivist and an expansionist camp. Yet it is crucial if one wants to understand the normative pull that is left of legal concepts such as non-intervention, aggression, and self-determination.

Islam as the Third Way: Sayyid Quṭb’s Socio-Economic Thought and Nasserism

2017 ◽  
Vol 97 (1) ◽  
pp. 177-200
Author(s):  
Margherita Picchi
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Economic Thought ◽  
Third Way ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Economic Theories ◽  
The Third ◽  
Sayyid Qutb ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Do So

This article aims to critically engage the representation of Sayyid Quṭb as the pioneer of modern Jihadism. It will do so by casting light on his social and economic theories as elaborated in the first half of the 50s, focusing on a pamphlet published in 1951 with the title “The Battle between Islam and Capitalism.” The purpose of this article is to present the content of the pamphlet in the context of the historical and intellectual landscape of its time, as well as showing how it is part of Quṭb’s body of thought as a whole. The intention is to show how, in a post-colonial world dominated by the Cold War, Quṭb presents Islam as the “Third Way” that combines the qualities and the advantages of communism and capitalism without sharing their faults. A system that, as this article is meant to demonstrate, shares many similarities with Nasserism, the socialist, anti-imperialist ideology elaborated by Quṭb’s archenemy, Ǧamāl ʿAbd al-Nāṣer.

In the Name of Anticommunism: Chinese practices of ideological accommodation in the early Cold War Philippines

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (05) ◽  
pp. 1543-1573
Author(s):  
CHIEN-WEN KUNG
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Chinese Diaspora ◽  
World War ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Resident Aliens ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Second World

AbstractThis article builds on work by social and cultural historians of the Cold War such as Heonik Kwon and Masuda Hajimu by showing how three groups of Chinese actors helped create the locally specific reality of Chinese anticommunism in the Philippines during the late 1940s and early 1950s. It argues that, in a climate thick with Sinophobia and fears of communism, but largely devoid of actual Chinese Reds, anticommunism for the Chinese was only secondarily about rooting out subversives, ideological authenticity, and supporting Chiang Kai-shek's counterattack against mainland China. As a social phenomenon, it was primarily a diverse and flexible repertoire of practices, from crime to civic associationism, that Chinese elites and their challengers employed to bolster their reputations as anticommunists, enrich themselves, and pursue vendettas against their ‘communist’ enemies. By focusing on these practices of what I call ideological accommodation, the article intervenes in scholarship on the Chinese diaspora after the Second World War by showing that anticommunism was essential to how the overseas Chinese adapted to being resident ‘aliens’ in post-colonial Philippine society.

The 1995 Democratic Constitution of Malawi

1996 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Peter Mutharika
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
The West ◽  
National Assembly ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Democratic Constitution ◽  
Law Commission

On 17 May, 1995, the Malawi National Assembly adopted a democratic constitution. In terms of Malawi’s post-colonial history, the adoption of the constitution was an unprecedented event. For a period of 30 years, Malawi had been subjected to a one-party dictatorship led by Dr Hastings Banda. Supported over the years by the West because of its anti-communist rhetoric, the Banda regime found itself abandoned with the ending of the Cold War and the collapse of apartheid in South Africa. Pressure from internal and external groups led to a referendum on the oneparty state in June 1993 which the Banda regime lost and to the first multi-party elections in May 1994 which the regime also lost. A day before the 1994 elections, the Malawi National Assembly adopted a Provisional Constitution for a period of 12 months. Pursuant to section 212 of the Provisional Constitution, the National Constitutional Conference was held in February 1995 for the purpose of making recommendations to the National Assembly on a permanent constitution. Rather than replace or repeal the Provisional Constitution, the National Assembly decided in April 1995 to make modest amendments to it in order to address some of the more blatant deficiencies that were identified at the Constitutional Conference. During the coming years, the Law Commission will make a detailed study of the entire document, make recommendations to the Minister of Justice and, it is hoped, address some of the obvious drafting oversights.

scholarly journals Indonesian Political Islam: Capitalist Development and the Legacies of the Cold War

2011 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vedi R. Hadiz
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Political Islam ◽  
New Order ◽  
Capitalist Development ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Sociological Factors ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
The City

This article explores the genesis of Indonesian political Islam and its interactions with the nationalist secular state in the immediate post-colonial era while examining some of the origins of the ‘radical’ stream that has garnered much attention in the current post-authoritarian period. It puts forward the idea that, rather than an outcome of Indonesian democratisation, this stream was in fact the product of authoritarian New Order rule. The article also considers some parallels in the trajectories of political Islam more generally in Indonesia, the Middle East and North Africa, especially as a kind of populist response to the tensions and contradictions of global capitalism. It addresses the city of Surakarta (Solo) as a case study and highlights the importance of Cold War politics in moulding political Islam in Indonesia and elsewhere. The approach emphasises historical and sociological factors shaping political Islam that have tended to be relegated to the background in prevalent security-oriented analyses concerned with issues of terrorism and violence.

Tashkent ‘68: A Cinematic Contact Zone

Slavic Review ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 75 (2) ◽  
pp. 279-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rossen Djagalov ◽  
Masha Salazkina
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Third World ◽  
Soviet Bloc ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The Third ◽  
Independence Movement ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Third World ◽  
The Cold War

AbstractThis essay seeks to reconstruct the history of the first Tashkent Festival of Cinemas of Asia and Africa (1968). It offers an account of the festival as a highly heterogeneous and productive site for better understanding the complex relationship between the Soviet bloc and the Third World in the crucial moment between the victory of post-colonial independence movement and the end of the Cold War.

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