The Bandung Conference was the seminal event of the twentieth century that announced, envisaged and mobilized for the prospect of a decolonial global order. It was the first meeting of Asian and African states, most of which were newly independent, to promote Afro-Asian economic and cultural cooperation and to oppose colonialism or neocolonialism by any nation. This book focuses on Bandung not only as a political and institutional platform, but also as a cultural and spiritual moment, in which formerly colonized peoples came together as global subjects who, with multiple entanglements and aspirations, co-imagined and deliberated on a just settlement to the colonial global order. It conceives of Bandung not just as a concrete political moment but also as an affective touchstone for inquiring into the meaning of the decolonial project more generally. In sum, the book attends to what remains woefully under-studied: Bandung as the enunciation of a different globalism, an alternative web of relationships across multiple borders, and an-other archive of sensibilities, desires as well as fears.
1. Introduction: Meanings of Bandung, Quynh N. Pham and Robbie Shilliam / Part I: Sensing Bandung / 2. The Elements of Bandung, Himadeep Muppidi / 3. Entanglements and Fragments 'By the Sea', Sam Okoth Opondo / 4. De-Islanding, Narendran Kumarakulasingam / 5. An Afro-Asian Tune without Lyrics, Khadija El Alaoui / 6. From Che to Guantanamera: Decolonizing the Corporeality of the Displaced, Rachmi Diyah Larasati / 7. Before Bandung: Pet Names in Telangana, Rahul Rao / 8. False Memories, Real Political Imaginaries: Jovanka Broz in Bandung, Aida A. Hozic / 9. Throwing Away the "Heavenly Rule Book": The World Revolution in the Bandung Spirit and Poetic Solidarities, Anna M. Agathangelou / Part II: (Re)Situating Bandung / 10. Remembering Bandung: When the Streams Crested, Tidal Waves Formed, and an Estuary Appeared, Siba N. Grovogui / 11. The Racial Dynamic in International Relations: Some Thoughts on the Pan-African Antecedents of Bandung, Randolph B. Persaud / 12. Spectres of the 3rd World: Bandung as a Lieu de Memoire, Giorgio Shani / 13. The Political Significance of Bandung for Development: Challenges, Contradictions and Struggles for Justice, Heloise Weber / 14. Speaking Up, from Capacity to Right: African Self-determination Debates in post-Bandung Perspective, Amy Niang / 15. Papua and Bandung: a Contest Between Decolonial and Postcolonial Questions, Budi Hernawan / 16. Bandung as a Plurality of Meanings, Rosalba Icaza Garza / Part III: Conclusions / 17. The Bandung Within, Mustapha Kamal Pasha / 18. Afterword: Bandung as a Research Agenda, Craig N. Murphy
