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Switch-cities, decolonization, and globalization: Singapore, Beirut, Dakar

Switch-cities, decolonization, and globalization: Singapore, Beirut, Dakar

In the 1940s-70s, a handful of cities functioned as ‘switches’ — switch-cities, we may say — between multiple recently decolonized…
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cyrus schayegh
Afro-Asian Threads: Batik and African Print-Fashion, from Vlisco to Mandela

Afro-Asian Threads: Batik and African Print-Fashion, from Vlisco to Mandela

African print-fashion and Indonesian batik have long and connected histories. I recently visited UCLA’s Fowler Museum, which currently…
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Su Lin Lewis
The art of peace in the early Cold War

The art of peace in the early Cold War

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Rachel Leow
Digitising militant glossy magazines in francophone Africa

Digitising militant glossy magazines in francophone Africa

Awa: la revue de la femme noire was a glossy magazine produced in Dakar, Senegal by a pioneering network of women between 1964 and 1972…
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Ruth Bush
Afro-Asian links to Latin America, The Origins of the Global South at the UN

Afro-Asian links to Latin America, The Origins of the Global South at the UN

As research expands on the global origins of anti-imperialism and the historical rise of the Global South, definitions of the composition…
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Alanna O' Malley
‘Shining vistas’ and false passports: recipes for an anticolonial hub

‘Shining vistas’ and false passports: recipes for an anticolonial hub

The ‘anticolonial hub’ has, more often than not, appeared to us in the form of the colonial metropole. Indeed, for historians of interwar…
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Ismay Milford
‘China and the Devil Slaves’: challenging Afro-Asian solidarities in Tanzania

‘China and the Devil Slaves’: challenging Afro-Asian solidarities in Tanzania

The close relationship between communist China and socialist Tanzania is often held up as an example of ‘actually existing’ Afro-Asian…
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George Roberts
‘Bandung’ and the decolonization of the academy in Southeast Asia

‘Bandung’ and the decolonization of the academy in Southeast Asia

History journal Itinerario celebrates its fortieth anniversary next year, which will include an anthology of the journal’s most interesting…
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Carolien Stolte
Activating the Past: George Padmore and the historical present

Activating the Past: George Padmore and the historical present

One of our writers, Leslie James, has just published a piece in The Critique Magazine, which explores the Pan-African Marxist George…
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Leslie James
Skies That Bind: Air Travel in the Bandung Era

Skies That Bind: Air Travel in the Bandung Era

In the 1950s, conferences were essential in creating notions of solidarity and collective purpose among Asians and Africans. In our own…
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Su Lin Lewis
After Empire Must Come Nation?

After Empire Must Come Nation?

During the last two decades a revisionist wave has gripped the historiography about imperial breakups. A venerable topic at least since…
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Michael Goebel
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