Students of the world : global 1968 and decolonization in the Congo / Pedro Monaville.

Main entry:

Monaville, Pedro, 1979- author.

Title & Author:

Students of the world : global 1968 and decolonization in the Congo / Pedro Monaville.

Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.

Description:

xxiv, 341 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm.

Series:

A Theory in forms book

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-321) and index.
Distance learning and the production of politics -- Friendly correspondence with the whole world -- Paths to school -- Dancing the rumba at Lovanium -- Cold War transcripts -- Revolution in the (counter-)revolution -- A student front -- (Un)natural alliances -- A postcolonial massacre and Caporalisation in Mobutu's Congo.

Summary:

"On June 30, 1960-the day of the Congo's independence-Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba gave a fiery speech in which he conjured a definitive shift away from a past of colonial oppression toward a future of sovereignty, dignity, and justice. His assassination a few months later showed how much neocolonial forces and the Cold War jeopardized African movements for liberation. In Students of the World, Pedro Monaville traces a generation of Congolese student activists who refused to accept the foreclosure of the future Lumumba envisioned. These students sought to decolonize university campuses, but the projects of emancipation they articulated went well beyond transforming higher education. Monaville explores the modes of being and thinking that shaped their politics. He outlines a trajectory of radicalization in which gender constructions, cosmopolitan dispositions, and the influence of a dissident popular culture mattered as much as access to various networks of activism and revolutionary thinking. By illuminating the many worlds inhabited by Congolese students at the time of decolonization, Monaville charts new ways of writing histories of the global 1960s from Africa"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781478015758 (hardcover)
1478015756
9781478018377 (paperback)
1478018372
(ebook)
9781478022985

Subject:

Student movements Democratic Republic of the Congo History 20th century.
College students Political activity Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Decolonization Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Cold War Social aspects Africa.
Mouvements étudiants Congo (République démocratique) Histoire 20e siècle.
Étudiants Activité politique Congo (République démocratique)
Décolonisation Congo (République démocratique)
Guerre froide Aspect social Afrique.
HISTORY / Africa / Central.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism.
College students Political activity
Decolonization
Politics and government
Social aspects
Social conditions
Student movements
Congo (Democratic Republic) Politics and government 1960-1997.
Congo (Democratic Republic) History 1960-1997.
Congo (République démocratique) Politique et gouvernement 1960-1997.
Congo (République démocratique) Histoire 1960-1997.
Africa
Congo (Democratic Republic)

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Theory in forms.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 323018
Call No.: 323018
Copy: 1
Status: External loan

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