Socialist Internationalism and the Gritty Politics of the Particular: Second-Third World Spaces in the Cold War
Kristin Roth-Ey, "Socialist Internationalism and the Gritty Politics of the Particular: Second-Third World Spaces in the Cold War "
English | ISBN: 1350302783 | 2023 | 296 pages | PDF | 33 MB
English | ISBN: 1350302783 | 2023 | 296 pages | PDF | 33 MB
This collection takes a case study approach to enter into and explore spaces of 'Second-Third World' interaction during the Cold War. From the dining halls of a university, to hospital wards, construction sites, military barracks, pubs and more, the chapters drop the scale down from the global to the particular to better see, understand and interpret the complex nature of these spaces.
These ordinary spaces are examined to understand how they were conceived, constructed, shaped and reshaped by people over time. Many are physical places of encounter, while others are more abstract, embodying ideological goals. In exploring these spaces the contributors show how the Second and Third World actors understood them and connected them to ideas such as gender and space, the space of the nation, of the modern and of the self. Essentially, it seeks to unravel how these spaces between Second and Third Worlds worked, and what, if anything, was distinctive and consequential about them.
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