Navigating Socialist Encounters
| Titel: | Navigating Socialist Encounters : Moorings and (Dis)Entanglements between Africa and East Germany during the Cold War / ed. by Eric Burton, Anne Dietrich, Immanuel Harisch, Marcia Schenck |
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| Veröffentlicht: | München : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2021] |
| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (VI, 400 p.) |
| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
Africa in Global History ; 2 |
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| ISBN: | 9783110623543 |
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| Bemerkung: | Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Mai 2021) |
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| Zusammenfassung: |
This edited volume examines entanglements and disentanglements between Africa and East Germany during and after the Cold War from a global history perspective. Extending the view beyond political elites, it asks for the negotiated and plural character of socialism in these encounters and sheds light on migration, media, development, and solidarity through personal and institutional agency. With its distinctive focus on moorings and unmoorings, the volume shows how the encounters, albeit often brief, significantly influenced both African and East German histories. This edited volume firmly places African history into global history by highlighting connections between African and East German actors and institutions during the Cold War. With a special focus on negotiations and African influences on East Germany (and vice versa), the volume sheds light on personal and institutional agency, cultural cross-fertilization, migration, development, and solidarity. |
