Opening book details…
Can I read Cordial Cold War: Cultural Actors in India and the German Democratic Republic (Politics and Society in India and the Global South) on EtoBox?
Cordial Cold War: Cultural Actors in India and the German Democratic Republic (Politics and Society in India and the Global South) by Anandita Bajpai (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Cordial Cold War: Cultural Actors in India and the German Democratic Republic (Politics and Society in India and the Global South) about?
Cordial Cold War examines cultural entanglements, in various forms, between two distant yet interconnected sites of the Cold War―India and the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Focusing on theatre performances, film festivals, newsreels, travel literature, radio broadcasting, cartography and art as sites of engagement, the chapters spotlight spaces of interaction that emerged in spite of, and within, the ambits of Cold War constraints. The inter-disciplinary collection sheds light on the variegated nature of translocal cultural entanglements, at work even before the GDR was officially recognized as a sovereign state by India in 1972. By foregrounding the role of actors, their practices and the sites of their entanglement, the contributions show how creative energies were mobilized to forge zones of friendship, mutual interest and envisioned solidarities. This volume situates actors from the Global South as mutual co-shapers of the cultural Cold War, therein shifting its Euro-American and Soviet epicenters to Non-Aligned India. Going beyond official state channels of international political dialogue, it locates cordiality in the micro-histories and everyday experiences of interpers
Who reads Cordial Cold War: Cultural Actors in India and the German Democratic Republic (Politics and Society in India and the Global South)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Anandita Bajpai (editor)
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications India Pvt, Ltd.
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9789354790225
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Social Science, Social Sciences, Social_sciences
More by Anandita Bajpai (editor)
Browse all works by Anandita Bajpai (editor)
Similar books
- Lawfare: the Criminalization of Democratic Politics in the Global South: The Criminalization of Democratic Politics in the Global South — Zaffaroni, Raul, Caamaño, Cristina, Vegh Weis, Valeria (2023)
- Democratic Politics and Economic Reform in India (Contemporary South Asia) — Rob Jenkins, Jan Breman, G. P. Hawthorn, Ayesha Jalal, Patricia Jeffery (1999)
- Caste and Democratic Politics In India (Anthem South Asian Studies) — edited by Ghanshyam Shah (2004)
- The Cultural Cold War and the Global South: Sites of Contest and Communitas (Routledge Studies in Cultures of the Global Cold War) — Kerry Bystrom; Monica Popescu; Katherine A Zien; Taylor & Francis (2021)
- Envisioning Socialism : Television and the Cold War in the German Democratic Republic — Deutscher Fernsehfunk; Gumbert, Heather L (2014)
- Conflict And Stability In The German Democratic Republic — Andrew I. Port (2009)