III. Der Bandung Moment | ~1950 - Träume von der post-kolonialen Republik

In the organizer's words:

What does democracy have to do with decolonization and what role did Germany play in this? In some states, a development towards democratic structures was successful after independence, but not in others. Different actors intervened in these processes and tried to influence them with narratives, economic and military interventions, but also with support for pro-independence actors.

The event series Dreams of the Post-Colonial Republic. Past and Future of Democracies after Independence Struggles invites you to explore the complex interactions between decolonization and democracy, to critically examine contradictions and to develop alternative perspectives on past and present challenges of democratization after independence processes. It asks both what the post-colonial republic looked like in the utopias that were developed before (formal) independence and what became of it later.

In the Bandung moment after the Second World War, the Non-Aligned Movement formulated alternative ideas to the recently emerged bipolar world order. New independent states established themselves as a political force. Resistance arose in the Soviet satellite states.
What ideas of democracy did the independence movements in Africa and Asia, but also in Hungary and Czechoslovakia, develop? Why did democracy succeed in some of the new states and not in others?

Speakers:

• Dr. Anandita Bajpai (Leibniz Zentrum Moderner Orient) works on topics such as Afro-Asian interdependencies during the Cold War or on relations and interdependencies between the GDR, the FRG and India, for example using the example of international radio programs.
• György Dalos (Saxon Academy of Arts) works as a historian and writer on topics such as the uprising in Hungary in 1956, the end of dictatorships in Eastern Europe and the Orbán system.
• Kibouni Koné is doing his doctorate at the Chair of Intercultural German Studies at the University of Bayreuth. His research focuses on intercultural aspects of development, democratization and the promotion of democracy in Africa, with a particular focus on Côte d'Ivoire.
• Wolfgang Kraushaar is a political scientist who has researched protest movements and left-wing terrorism.

Responsible:

Markus Hengelhaupt(markus.hengelhaupt@bsb.hamburg.de).

Cooperation partners:

Giga, Goethe Institute, Bücherhallen Hamburg

German Institute for Global and Area Studies I Leibniz Institute of Global and Area Studies

Goethe Institute Hamburg

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