Lin Lewis, Nana Osei-Opare (eds.): Socialism, Internationalism, and Development in the Third World: Envisioning Modernity in the Era of Decolonization

Su Lin Lewis, Nana Osei-Opare (eds.): Socialism, Internationalism, and Development in the Third World: Envisioning Modernity in the Era of Decolonization. London: Bloomsbury 2024. ISBN 9781350413436. open access

Description

In the wake of colonial and racial exploitation, political leaders, technocrats, activists, and workers across the Third World turned to socialism to offer a new vision of post-colonial development. Against a backdrop of decolonization, white supremacy, and the Cold War, they fostered anti-colonial solidarity and created cooperative frameworks for self-reliance.

In following these actors, the contributions to this volume show that “development” was not merely exported from North to South: people across the Global South collaborated with each other while engaging with a diversity of socialist ideas, from European Fabianism and Marxism to tailored African, Asian, and Latin American models. They led debates on race and inequality from the 1920s and 1930s and spearheaded local, regional, and internationalist efforts to re-envision modernity by the 1950s and 1960s.

By examining the limitations and legacies of socialist development initiatives in and across the Third World, Socialism, Internationalism, and Development in the Third World offers new perspectives on the intertwined histories of socialism, development, and international cooperation, with lessons for both past and present.

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Table of Contents

Introduction: Development Dreams from the Socialist South, Su Lin Lewis (Bristol University, UK) and Nana Osei-Opare (Rice University, USA).

1. Development and Difference: Alternative Genealogies of Uneven Development, 1920–1940, Kelvin Ng (Yale University, USA)

2. Debating Race and Revolutionary Socialism from the Latin American South, Jo Crow (University of Bristol, UK)

3. Pan-Africa, African Socialism, and the 'Federal Moment' of Decolonization, Marc Matera (University of California Santa Cruz,, USA)

4. Socialism, Internationalism, and Regime Survival: The Guomindang, China, and Taiwan in the 1940s and 1950s, Tehyun Ma (University of Sheffield, UK)

5. Three Logics of Indian Socialism: Historicizing Development under Capital, Matthew Shutzer (Duke University, USA)

6. Socialism and the Question of Third World Development in the Ideas of the Indonesian Socialist Party (PSI), Pradipto Niwandhono (Universitas Airlangga, Indonesia)

7. Cuban Internationalismo, Berthold Unfried and Claudia Martinez (both University of Vienna, Austria)

8. Politics of Development at Afro-Asian Women's Conferences, Su Lin Lewis (University of Bristol, UK) and Wildan Sena Utama (University of Gadjah Madah, Indonesia)

9. Ahmad Ali Kohzad's visit to China 1958: A Critical Reading, William Figueroa (University of Groningen, the Netherlands)

10. Forging the Vanguard of Developmental Socialism: Nationalization, Respectability and Ideological Struggles at Kivukoni College, Tanzania, Eric Burton (University of Innsbruck, Austria)

11. Fish, Discontent, and Socialist Modernities and Dreams in Kwame Nkrumah's Ghana, Nana Osei-Opare (Rice University, USA)

12, Indians as Experts on Democracy and Development: South-South Cooperation in the Nehru Years, Taylor Sherman (University of New South Wales, Australia)

13. Confronting Capitalism in Twentieth-Century Latin America, Kevin Young (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)

Afterword: Rethinking Socialist Developmentalisms in the “Third World”, David C. Engerman (Yale University, USA)