Meanings of Bandung

Praise for Meanings of Bandung Meanings of Bandung is an outstanding collection of essays that, from a variety of vantage points, engage anticolonial sensing of that world-shaping event in 1955, as well as its decolonizing legacies. The collection provides a brilliantly illuminating window into a diversity of international relations and world orders. It is a must read for all who seek to think international relations otherwise than as an American social science – and even more importantly for those who do not. —Raymond D. Duvall, Professor, University of Minnesota Meanings of Bandung takes up one of the most significant and undervalued moments in the history of international relations when anticolonial politics intersected with decolonial visions to produce some of the most inspired possibilities for a truly global politics. A formidable collection of critical and postcolonial International Relations scholars examines the multivalent politics, aesthetics and ethics that emerged from the 1955 Bandung Conference when leaders of newly independent African and Asian states dared to imagine an alternative global order in which global peace, social justice and human dignity were more than just rhetorical masks for the exercise of realpolitik. Readers will come away both inspired and humbled by the sharp analyses and profound lessons that Bandung continues to provide us for crafting more just and plural worlds in our contemporary times. This volume should be a must-read for all students of International Relations. —Shampa Biswas, Paul Garrett Professor, Whitman College Sixty years ago, the Bandung Conference seemed to open up the possibility of a new world of racial equality and global justice. But as this valuable collection makes clear, the event also had even more far-reaching aspirations. Bandung offered a revolutionary decolonial revisioning of the affective sensibilities, dominant temporalities and official corporealities of the planetary body politic. It is a vision we urgently need to recover. —Charles W. Mills, Professor, CUNY Graduate Center This pioneering volume retrieves Bandung’s entangled histories. By combining work on the intimate solidarities that sustained the conference along with chapters on the importance of Bandung for narrating conspicuously global histories, Meanings of Bandung represents a major advance. The book will be of significant interest to those working on colonial and postcolonial histories, the politics of development and the terrain of “lived” international relations. —George Lawson, Associate Professor, London School of Economics It is not frequent to read, in the social sciences, expressions such as “Meanings of Bandung” and “Sensing Bandung,” as this excellent volume unapologetically does. The Bandung Conference is the equivalent to the French Revolution for the history of Europe. Bandung was a signpost and will remain so for the growing presence in the planetary scene of people, states and regions, shattered by the consolidation of Eurocentrism to which the French Revolution contributed so much. —Walter D. Mignolo, William H. Wannamaker Professor and Director, Center for Global Studies and the Humanities, Duke University Robbie Shilliam and QuǤnh N. Phҥm place the lens on an iconic moment for the postcolonial world in global politics. Invaluable for both research and teaching, this collection of essays reveals the layers of meaning contained in this moment, as well as the paradoxes and tensions faced by those who sought to recreate the international beyond the legacies of the colonial era. —Vivienne Jabri, Professor, King’s College London Shilliam&Pham_9781783485659.indb 1 18-10-2016 14:47:16 Kilombo: International Relations and Colonial Questions This is the first series to mark out a dedicated space for advanced critical inquiry into colonial questions across International Relations. The ethos of this book series is reflected by the bricolage constituency of Kilombos – settlements of African slaves, rebels and indigenous peoples in South America who became self-determining political communities that retrieved and renovated the social practices of its diverse constituencies while being confronted by colonial forces. The series embraces a multitude of methods and approaches, theoretical and empirical scholarship, alongside historical and contemporary concerns. Publishing innovative and top-quality peer-reviewed scholarship, Kilombo enquires into the shifting principles of colonial rule that inform global governance and investigates the contestation of these principles by diverse peoples across the globe. It critically re-interprets popular concepts, narratives and approaches in the field of IR by reference to the “colonial question” and, in doing so, the book series opens up new vistas from which to address the key political questions of our time. Series Editors Mustapha K. Pasha, Aberystwyth University Meera Sabaratnam, SOAS University of London Robbie Shilliam, Queen Mary University of London Titles in the Series Meanings of Bandung: Postcolonial Orders and Decolonial Visions, QuǤnh N. Phҥm and Robbie Shilliam Decolonizing Intervention: International Statebuilding in Mozambique, Meera Sabaratnam (forthcoming) Politics of the African Anticolonial Archive, Shiera S. el-Malik and Isaac A. Kamola Shilliam&Pham_9781783485659.indb 2 18-10-2016 14:47:16 Meanings of Bandung Postcolonial Orders and Decolonial Visions Edited by Qućnh N. PhӘm and Robbie Shilliam ฀ ฀ Shilliam&Pham_9781783485659.indb 3 ฀ 18-10-2016 14:47:16 Contents About the Contributors vii Acknowledgements xiii INTRODUCTION 1 1 Reviving Bandung Qućnh N. PhӘm and Robbie Shilliam PART I: SENSING BANDUNG 3 21 2 The Elements of Bandung Himadeep Muppidi 23 3 Entanglements and Fragments “By the Sea” Sam Okoth Opondo 37 4 De-islanding Narendran Kumarakulasingam 51 5 A Meaning of Bandung: An Afro-Asian Tune without Lyrics Khadija El Alaoui 61 6 From Che to Guantanamera: Decolonizing the Corporeality of the Displaced Rachmi Diyah Larasati 7 Before Bandung: Pet Names in Telangana Rahul Rao 75 85 v Shilliam&Pham_9781783485659.indb 5 18-10-2016 14:47:17 vi 8 9 Contents False Memories, Real Political Imaginaries: Jovanka Broz in Bandung Aida A. Hozi° 95 Casting Off the “Heavenly Rule Book”: Bandung’s Poetic Revolutionary Solidarities Anna M. Agathangelou 101 PART II: LINEAGES OF BANDUNG 113 10 Remembering Bandung: When the Streams Crested, Tidal Waves Formed, and an Estuary Appeared Siba N. Grovogui 115 11 The Racial Dynamic in International Relations: Some Thoughts on the Pan-African Antecedents of Bandung Randolph B. Persaud 133 12 Spectres of the Third World: Bandung as a Lieu de Mémoire Giorgio Shani 143 13 The Political Significance of Bandung for Development: Challenges, Contradictions and Struggles for Justice Heloise Weber 153 14 Speaking Up, from Capacity to Right: African Self-determination Debates in Post-Bandung Perspective Amy Niang 165 15 Papua and Bandung: A Contest between Decolonial and Postcolonial Questions Budi Hernawan 175 16 Bandung as a Plurality of Meanings Rosalba Icaza and Tamara Soukotta 185 CONCLUSIONS 199 17 The Bandung Within Mustapha Kamal Pasha 201 18 Afterword: Bandung as a Research Agenda Craig N. Murphy 211 Bibliography 219 Index 235 Shilliam&Pham_9781783485659.indb 6 18-10-2016 14:47:17