Book contents
- International Law and the Cold War
- International Law and the Cold War
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- About the Editors
- About the Authors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Reading and Unreading a Historiography of Hiatus
- Part I The Anti-linear Cold War
- Part II The Generative/Productive Cold War
- Part III The Parochial/Plural Cold War
- 16 The Cold War in Soviet International Legal Discourse
- 17 The Dao of Mao: Sinocentric Socialism and the Politics of International Legal Theory
- 18 ‘The Dust of Empire’: the Dialectic of Self-Determination and Re-colonisation in the First Phase of the Cold War
- 19 The ‘Bihar Famine’ and the Authorisation of the Green Revolution in India: Developmental Futures and Disaster Imaginaries
- 20 Pakistan’s Cold War(s) and International Law
- 21 International Law, Cold War Juridical Theatre and the Making of the Suez Crisis
- 22 To Seek with Beauty to Set the World Right: Cold War International Law and the Radical ‘Imaginative Geography’ of Pan-Africanism
- 23 John Le Carré, International Law and the Cold War
- 24 Postcolonial Hauntings and Cold War Continuities: Congolese Sovereignty and the Murder of Patrice Lumumba
- 25 End Times in the Antipodes: Propaganda and Critique in On the Beach
- References to Cold War Volume
- Index
22 - To Seek with Beauty to Set the World Right: Cold War International Law and the Radical ‘Imaginative Geography’ of Pan-Africanism
from Part III - The Parochial/Plural Cold War
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2019
- International Law and the Cold War
- International Law and the Cold War
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- About the Editors
- About the Authors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Reading and Unreading a Historiography of Hiatus
- Part I The Anti-linear Cold War
- Part II The Generative/Productive Cold War
- Part III The Parochial/Plural Cold War
- 16 The Cold War in Soviet International Legal Discourse
- 17 The Dao of Mao: Sinocentric Socialism and the Politics of International Legal Theory
- 18 ‘The Dust of Empire’: the Dialectic of Self-Determination and Re-colonisation in the First Phase of the Cold War
- 19 The ‘Bihar Famine’ and the Authorisation of the Green Revolution in India: Developmental Futures and Disaster Imaginaries
- 20 Pakistan’s Cold War(s) and International Law
- 21 International Law, Cold War Juridical Theatre and the Making of the Suez Crisis
- 22 To Seek with Beauty to Set the World Right: Cold War International Law and the Radical ‘Imaginative Geography’ of Pan-Africanism
- 23 John Le Carré, International Law and the Cold War
- 24 Postcolonial Hauntings and Cold War Continuities: Congolese Sovereignty and the Murder of Patrice Lumumba
- 25 End Times in the Antipodes: Propaganda and Critique in On the Beach
- References to Cold War Volume
- Index
Summary
This chapter retraces the radical ‘imaginative geography’ of Pan-Africanism (and its demise) through the literature of Abrahams and Sembene. Beyond exploring the imaginative geography of the texts it also calls attention to the imaginative or discursive nature of geography itself. It is argued that the ‘imaginative geography’ of the Cold War served to circulate and sediment a particular way of ‘writing global space’ (a ‘geopolitics’), which in turn legitimised the ‘world of states’, and de-legitimised its alternatives. The Cold War and international law, it is argued, conspired to defeat Pan-Africanism’s radical project to rewrite the global.
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