ABSTRACT

This article provides a conceptual intervention regarding how postcolonial space was reimagined in the aftermath of global decolonization during the mid-twentieth century. It argues that political imagination operates not only temporally by rethinking pasts, presents, and futures, but it equally functions spatially by reconsidering normative geographies such as the continent and the nation-state. This article examines in particular how “Afro-Asia” as a space was invoked and generated in the wake of the 1955 Asian-African Conference in Bandung, Indonesia, by African newspapers and periodicals. Assisted by the popularity and growing mythology of the Bandung meeting, the term “Afro-Asia” evolved in the years after 1955 as shorthand for collectively referencing the countries that participated at the summit to becoming a wider point of orientation for countries that sought to participate in a broader intercontinental endeavor. This larger inclusion combined with the failure to hold a “second Bandung“ in 1965 contributed to the eventual decline of “Afro-Asia” as a new territorial space. Nonetheless, the legacy of “Afro-Asia” as a spatial idea for readdressing political, historical, and cultural geographies can still be found in recent work in Indian Ocean studies and China-Africa relations.

摘要

本文对二十世纪中叶全球非殖民化后如何重新构想后殖民空间进行了概念性干预。它认为，政治想象力不仅通过重新思考过去、现在和未来在时间上发挥作用，而且通过重新考虑大陆和民族国家等规范性地理区域同样在空间上发挥作用。本文特别考察了 1955 年在印度尼西亚万隆举行的亚非会议之后，非洲报纸和期刊如何援引和产生作为一个空间的“亚非”。借助万隆会议的知名度和不断增长的神话，“亚非”一词在 1955 年之后的几年里演变为对参加峰会的国家的统称，成为寻求参与更广泛的洲际努力的国家的更广泛的定位点。这种更大的包容性加上未能在 1965 年举行“第二个万隆”，导致“亚非”作为新领土空间的最终衰落。尽管如此，“亚非”作为重新处理政治、历史和文化地理学的空间理念的遗产，仍然可以在印度洋研究和中非关系的近期工作中找到。这种更大的包容性加上未能在 1965 年举行“第二个万隆”，导致“亚非”作为新领土空间的最终衰落。尽管如此，“亚非”作为重新处理政治、历史和文化地理学的空间理念的遗产，仍然可以在印度洋研究和中非关系的近期工作中找到。这种更大的包容性加上未能在 1965 年举行“第二个万隆”，导致“亚非”作为新领土空间的最终衰落。尽管如此，“亚非”作为重新处理政治、历史和文化地理学的空间理念的遗产，仍然可以在印度洋研究和中非关系的近期工作中找到。