Ampiah, Kweku. The Political and Moral Imperatives of the Bandung Conference of 1955 the Reactions of the US, UK and Japan. Folkestone, UK: Global Oriental, 2007.
Record Description: Now fifty years on, with significantly more primary references available,Kweku Ampiah’s study provides a much-needed in-depth re-evaluation of the conference as a whole, focusing in particular on the external influences and preoccupations impacting on the participants seen through three case studies involving the US, UK and Japan.
Amrith, Sunil S. “Asian Internationalism: Bandung’s Echo in a Colonial Metropolis.” Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 6, no. 4 (December 2005): 557–69. doi:10.1080/14649370500316869.
ISSN: 14649373
Abstract:
This paper argues that two conflicting discourses of internationalism stood in uneasy counterpoint and contention in the Asian arena of the 1950s, reflected in the legacies of the Bandung conference. The first drew on a language of global citizenship and rights. The second saw the international system as a source of strength and support for state sovereignty, and state‐directed programmes of national development. The remainder of the paper uses the case of late‐colonial Singapore to examine the intersection of these two discourses of internationalism. An Asian internationalism, which spanned to include Africa over the course of the 1950s, became one of a stock of narratives that made Singapore’s ‘everyday cosmopolitanism’ possible, in the worlds of the hawkers, the dockworkers and the agriculturalists. The political aspirations of these groups were sacrificed, ultimately, to the goal of disciplined national development, supported by an international order that had closed in to defend the interests of state power.
a bibliography of the 1955 Asian-African Conference
