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This book explores the emergence of 'Third Worldism' as a new intellectual movement during the era of decolonization and the Cold War.
List of contents
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.
About the author
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.
Summary
This book provides an innovative account of how the concept of the 'Third World' emerged in France among leftist intellectuals in the 1950s and was subsequently used in the 1960s and 1970s as a key term, both in struggles to position France within the globalizing world and in conflicts about social reform within France itself.
