Navigating Socialist Encounters

Open Access Veröffentlicht von De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2021

Navigating Socialist Encounters

Moorings and (Dis)Entanglements between Africa and East Germany during the Cold War

Herausgegeben von: Eric Burton , Anne Dietrich , Immanuel R. Harisch und Marcia C. Schenck

Band 2 der Reihe Africa in Global History

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110623543

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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.

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Eric Burton, Univ. Innsbruck; Anne Dietrich, Univ. Leipzig; Immanuel R. Harisch, Univ. Vienna; Marcia C. Schenck, Univ. Potsdam.

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"This edited volume [comprised of fourteen chapters and an introduction] contributes significantly to our understanding of the still understudied links between East Germany and the Global South. Each author in the volume unearths a treasure trove of sources that draw, among others, on East German and African archives, oral and micro-histories as well as literary and documentary texts and artifacts. All individual essays are well-written, critically informed, and highly innovative." – Anna Horakova (Harvard University) in German Studies Review (2022) 45/2, 384–386

"This variety of formats sets this edited volume apart from other books on similar topics. Another reason to commend this volume is the range of sources used by its contributors. […] it should be of great interest not only to students of the GDR and African history but also to all those dealing with postsocialism and the global history of the Cold War." – Yulia Gradskova (Södertörn University) in Ab Imperio (2022) 1, 293–297

More reviews:

Gradskova, Yulia. Review of Navigating Socialist Encounters: Moorings and (Dis) Entanglements between Africa and East Germany during the Cold War　ed. by Eric Burton et al. Ab Imperio 2022, no. 1 (2022): 293–297. doi:10.1353/imp.2022.0024.

Horakova, Anna. Review of Navigating Socialist Encounters: Moorings and (Dis)Entanglements Between Africa and East Germany During the Cold War　ed. by Eric Burton et al. German Studies Review 45, no. 2 (2022): 384–386. doi:10.1353/gsr.2022.0035.

Kößler, Reinhart. Review of Navigating Socialist Encounters: Moorings and (Dis) Entanglements between Africa and East Germany during the Cold War　ed. by Eric Burton et al. PERIPHERIE – Politik • Ökonomie • Kultur (1-2022), no. 165+166, https://doi.org/10.3224/peripherie.v42i1.15.

Pereira, Matheus Serva. Encontros Socialistas e Projetos Alternativos de Globalização durante a Guerra Fria. Afro-Ásia, no. 66 (2023): 704–712. https://www.resenhacritica.com.br/periodicos/afro-asia-ufba/.

Van der Heyden, Ulrich. Nochmals: DDR und Afrika. Indaba 114/22: 24–25.

Banks, Elizabeth. "Review: Burton, Erich/ Dietrich, Anne/ Harisch, Immanuel R./ Schenck, Marcia C. (2021, Eds.): Navigating Socialist Encounters: Mooring and (Dis)Entanglements Between Africa and East Germany During the Cold War." Stichproben. Vienna Journal of African Studies 22, no. 42 (2022): 87–89. https://doi.org/10.25365/PHAIDRA.362_07.

Immanuel R. Harisch, Navigating Socialist Encounters: Moorings and (Dis)Entanglements between Africa and East Germany during the Cold War, in: TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 25.11.2021. https://trafo.hypotheses.org/31549.

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Frontmatter Open Access PDF downloaden	I
Table of Contents Open Access PDF downloaden	V
1 Introduction: Moorings and (Dis)Entanglements between Africa and East Germany during the Cold War Marcia C. Schenck, Immanuel R. Harisch, Anne Dietrich und Eric Burton Open Access PDF downloaden	1
I Shaping Pioneering Institutions
2 Herder vs. Goethe in Egypt: East and West German Language Courses in Cairo and the Evolution of “German as a Foreign Language” (DaF) Jörg Depta und Anne-Kristin Hartmetz Open Access PDF downloaden	61
3 “In the Spirit of Harambee!” Kenyan Student Unions in the German Democratic Republic and Yugoslavia, 1964–68 Christian Alvarado Open Access PDF downloaden	87
4 Agency and Its Limits: African Unionists as Africa’s “Vanguard” at the FDGB College in Bernau Eric Angermann Open Access PDF downloaden	115
5 The Negotiations of the Contract Labor Accord between the GDR and Mozambique Franziska Rantzsch Open Access PDF downloaden	139
II Navigating the GDR: Moorings and (Dis)Entanglements
6 The Rise and Fall of a Socialist Future: Ambivalent Encounters Between Zanzibar and East Germany in the Cold War G. Thomas Burgess Open Access PDF downloaden	169
7 My Impression of the German Democratic Republic [Life Itself Exposes Lies] J. A. Osei und Immanuel R. Harisch Open Access PDF downloaden	193
8 Echoes of the Past: The Social Impact of the Returned Labor Migrants from East Germany on the City of Maputo Fernando Agostinho Machava Open Access PDF downloaden	207
9 Socialist Encounters at the School of Friendship Marcia C. Schenck und Francisca Raposo Open Access PDF downloaden	235
10 Paths Are Made by Walking: Memories of Being a Mozambican Contract Worker in the GDR Ibraimo Alberto und Marcia C. Schenck Open Access PDF downloaden	247
III Sourcing Visions of Solidarity
11 So Close, Yet So Far: Ulrich Makosch and the GDR’s Afrikabild on Screen and in Text George Bodie Open Access PDF downloaden	265
12 Diaries of Solidarity in the Global Cold War: The East German Friendship Brigades and their Experience in ‘Modernizing’ Angola Paul Sprute Open Access PDF downloaden	293
13 Between State Mission and Everyday Life: Private Photographs of East Germans in Mozambique in the 1980s Katrin Bahr Open Access PDF downloaden	319
14 A (Post)Socialist Memory Space? East German and Mozambican Memories of Cooperation in Education Alexandra Piepiorka und Eduardo F. Buanaissa Open Access PDF downloaden	351
List of Contributors Open Access PDF downloaden	387
Index Open Access PDF downloaden	393

(English)

Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Copyrightjahr: 2021
Seiten
- Frontmatter: 6
- Inhalt: 400
Abbildungen
- Abbildungen: 5
- Farbige Abbildungen: 4
Schlagworte: DDR; Kalter Krieg; Migration; Globalgeschichte

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