Third World in the Global 1960s

Samantha Christiansen is an Assistant Professor of History and Director of Women's Studies at Marywood University.  She received her Ph.D. in History from Northeastern University and is a specialist in South Asian and World History with an interest in social movements, urban history and gender.

“Historians of the burgeoning field of the global 1960s will welcome the contributions the volume makes.” • Choice“The wide ranging analytical span offered by this volume, is most gratifying, resulting in a truly successful global historical undertaking.” • Neue Politische Literatur“Essential reading for all scholars of the global 1960s. Christiansen and Scarlett have brought together an extraordinary group of contributors. They challenge readers to think about the vector and velocity of political change in the long Sixties era by grounding their work in the fierce struggles for freedom in what was once called 'the Third World'.” • David Farber, Temple University“[A]n exciting contribution to the ongoing globalization of the historical conception of ‘1968.’ The global South has been almost invisible in the historical scholarship on this vital topic up to now, and this volume marks an important step forward in the rectification of that imbalance. The individual essays make for stimulating reading, and fairly burst with new information and insights from histories around the world, histories whose urgency has not dimmed with the passage of time.” • Doug Rossinow, author of Visions of Progress: The Left-Liberal Tradition in America“The editors and the authors are to be commended for creating this fascinating and important volume. By giving sustained attention to the 1960s in the so-called ‘Third World,’ while exploring the status of the very idea of the ‘Third World’ internationally, the book both expands and unsettles common understandings of the ‘global Sixties.’ The individual essays bring to light local conflicts and struggles often excluded from narratives of the era, while illuminating the relationship between national, transnational, and international contexts. It is a vital addition to the accumulating body of knowledge on the 1960s and the means by which the world has become increasingly interconnected.” • Jeremy Varon, The New School for Social Research, New York

• ForewordArif DirlikIntroductionSamantha Christiansen and Zachary A ScarlettPart I: Crossing Borders: The Idea of the Third World and the Global 1960sChapter 1. A Shared Space of Imagination, Communication, and Action: Perspectives on the History of the “Third World”Christoph KalterChapter 2. China’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and the Imagination of the Third WorldZachary ScarlettChapter 3. Politics and Periodicals in 1960s India: The Naxalite MovementAvishek GangulyChapter 4. Liberation Struggle and Humanitarian Aid – International Solidarity Movements and the “Third World” in the 1960sKonrad KuhnPart II: Fresh Battles in Old Struggles: New Voices and Modes of Expression Chapter 5. “A More Systemic Fight for Reform”: University Reform, Student Movements, Society, and the State in Brazil, 1957-1968Colin SniderChapter 6. “Speaking the Language of Protest:” African Student Rebellions at the Catholic Major Seminary in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1965-1979Nicholas CrearyChapter 7. 1968 and the Context of Apartheid: Students, Race, and Politics in South AfricaChris SaundersChapter 8. Brother Wally and De Burnin’ of Babylon: Walter Rodney’s Impact on the Reawakening of Black Power, the Birth of Reggae, and Resistance to Global ImperialismJames Bradford Part III:  Unfinished Business: Challenging the State’s RevolutionChapter 9. June 4th 1969: Violence, Political Imagination, and the Student Movement in the CongoPedro MonavilleChapter 10. Revolution on the National Stage: Mexico, the PRI, and the Student Movement in 1968Julia SloanChapter 11. Students, Identity and Strategic Alliance Building: The Emergence of University Students as a Political Opposition Force in Indonesia in the 1960sStephanie Sapiie Chapter 12. Putting up a United Front: MAN in the Rebellious Sixties in the PhilippinesErwin Fernandez