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DRUCKFRISCH Book DiscussionIsmay Milford: "African Activists in a Decolonising World"This edition of ReCentGlobe’s Druckfrisch Book Discussions on march 07 2023 at ReCentGlobe features the book “African Activists in a Decolonising World: The Making of an Anticolonial Culture, 1952–1966” by Ismay Milford, published by Cambridge University Press in the Global and International History Series. Three experts in the field joins the author Ismay Milford to critique the book and discuss its contributions to the global history of anticolonialism and decolonisation.
Many thanks for the organization to Steffi Marung and Roman Krawielicki!
Author:
Ismay Milford is a historian based at ReCentGlobe, with research interests in East and Central Africa, activism, educatio...
2024-05-301h 19
New Books in Critical TheoryIsmay Milford, "African Activists in a Decolonising World: The Making of an Anticolonial Culture, 1952-1966" (Cambridge UP, 2023)As wars of liberation in Africa and Asia shook the post-war world, a cohort of activists from East and Central Africa, specifically the region encompassing present-day Malawi, Zambia, Uganda and mainland Tanzania, asked what role they could play in the global anticolonial landscape. In African Activists in a Decolonising World: The Making of an Anticolonial Culture, 1952-1966 (Cambridge UP, 2023), Ismay Milford presents a social and intellectual history of decolonisation and anticolonialism in the 1950s and 1960s. Drawing on multi-archival research, she brings together their trajectories for the first time, reconstructing the anticolonial culture that underpinned their journeys to D...
2023-07-2552 min
New Books in World AffairsIsmay Milford, "African Activists in a Decolonising World: The Making of an Anticolonial Culture, 1952-1966" (Cambridge UP, 2023)As wars of liberation in Africa and Asia shook the post-war world, a cohort of activists from East and Central Africa, specifically the region encompassing present-day Malawi, Zambia, Uganda and mainland Tanzania, asked what role they could play in the global anticolonial landscape. In African Activists in a Decolonising World: The Making of an Anticolonial Culture, 1952-1966 (Cambridge UP, 2023), Ismay Milford presents a social and intellectual history of decolonisation and anticolonialism in the 1950s and 1960s. Drawing on multi-archival research, she brings together their trajectories for the first time, reconstructing the anticolonial culture that underpinned their journeys to D...
2023-07-2552 min
Exchanges: A Cambridge UP PodcastIsmay Milford, "African Activists in a Decolonising World: The Making of an Anticolonial Culture, 1952-1966" (Cambridge UP, 2023)As wars of liberation in Africa and Asia shook the post-war world, a cohort of activists from East and Central Africa, specifically the region encompassing present-day Malawi, Zambia, Uganda and mainland Tanzania, asked what role they could play in the global anticolonial landscape. In African Activists in a Decolonising World: The Making of an Anticolonial Culture, 1952-1966 (Cambridge UP, 2023), Ismay Milford presents a social and intellectual history of decolonisation and anticolonialism in the 1950s and 1960s. Drawing on multi-archival research, she brings together their trajectories for the first time, reconstructing the anticolonial culture that underpinned their journeys to D...
2023-07-2552 min
New Books in African StudiesIsmay Milford, "African Activists in a Decolonising World: The Making of an Anticolonial Culture, 1952-1966" (Cambridge UP, 2023)As wars of liberation in Africa and Asia shook the post-war world, a cohort of activists from East and Central Africa, specifically the region encompassing present-day Malawi, Zambia, Uganda and mainland Tanzania, asked what role they could play in the global anticolonial landscape. In African Activists in a Decolonising World: The Making of an Anticolonial Culture, 1952-1966 (Cambridge UP, 2023), Ismay Milford presents a social and intellectual history of decolonisation and anticolonialism in the 1950s and 1960s. Drawing on multi-archival research, she brings together their trajectories for the first time, reconstructing the anticolonial culture that underpinned their journeys to D...
2023-07-2552 min
New Diplomatic History PodcastsColoniality and DecolonizationAbout the event:https://cemes.ku.dk/activities/2023/coloniality-and-decolonization/The three booksIsmay Milford (Universität Leipzig): African Activists in a Decolonizing World. The Making of an Anticolonial Culture, 1952-1966 (CUP 2022)https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/african-activists-in-a-decolonising-world/9628C2584632573703380F18B4EEE581Florian Wagner (Universität Erfurt): Colonial Internationalism and the Governmentality of Empire, 1893-1982 (CUP 2022)https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/colonial-internationalism-and-the-governmentality-of-empire-18931982/1AD1DE4ABFE1421457F254E0E8B1D46FMargot Tudor (University of Exeter): Blue Helmet Bureaucrats. United Nations Peace Keeping and the Reinvention of Colonialism, 1945-1971 (CUP 2023).ht...
2023-07-091h 24
Centre for the Study of Modern and Contemporary HistoryCSMCH Showcase 5: Ismay MilfordIn the fifth episode of our 'CSMCH Showcase' series, Emile Chabal talks to Ismay Milford about her work on African anti-colonial activism in the decolonising moment of the 1950s and 60s. Amongst other things, they discuss transnational histories of activism, the usefulness of "space" as a historical concept, and whether we can learn anything about our present political crisis from postwar visions of the decolonised future. Produced by Mathew Nicolson.
2020-07-1425 min