Navigating socialist encounters : moorings and (dis)entanglements between Africa and East Germany during the Cold War /

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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Burton, Eric (Editor ), Dietrich, Anne (Editor ), Harisch, Immanuel (Editor ), Schenck, Marcia (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2021.
Temas:
Cold War.
Guerre froide.
Diplomatic relations
Africa > Foreign relations > Germany (East)
Germany (East) > Foreign relations > Africa.
Afrique > Relations extérieures > Allemagne (Est)
Africa
Germany (East)
Agency.
GDR.
Global History.
Migration.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • 1 Introduction: Moorings and (Dis)Entanglements between Africa and East Germany during the Cold War
  • 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)
  • 3 "In the Spirit of Harambee!" Kenyan Student Unions in the German Democratic Republic and Yugoslavia, 1964-68
  • 4 Agency and Its Limits: African Unionists as Africa's "Vanguard" at the FDGB College in Bernau
  • 5 The Negotiations of the Contract Labor Accord between the GDR and Mozambique
  • 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
  • 7 My Impression of the German Democratic Republic [Life Itself Exposes Lies]
  • 8 Echoes of the Past: The Social Impact of the Returned Labor Migrants from East Germany on the City of Maputo
  • 9 Socialist Encounters at the School of Friendship
  • 10 Paths Are Made by Walking: Memories of Being a Mozambican Contract Worker in the GDR
  • III Sourcing Visions of Solidarity
  • 11 So Close, Yet So Far: Ulrich Makosch and the GDR's Afrikabild on Screen and in Text
  • 12 Diaries of Solidarity in the Global Cold War: The East German Friendship Brigades and their Experience in 'Modernizing' Angola
  • 13 Between State Mission and Everyday Life: Private Photographs of East Germans in Mozambique in the 1980s
  • 14 A (Post)Socialist Memory Space? East German and Mozambican Memories of Cooperation in Education
  • List of Contributors
  • Index

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