A Global History of Anti-Apartheid

This book explores the global history of anti-apartheid and international solidarity with southern African freedom struggles from the 1960s. It examines the institutions, campaigns and ideological frameworks that defined the globalization of anti-apartheid, the ways in which the concept of solidarity was mediated by individuals, organizations and states, and considers the multiplicity of actors and interactions involved in generating and sustaining anti-apartheid around the world. It includes detailed accounts of key case studies from Europe, Asia, and Latin America, which illustrate the complex relationships between local and global agendas, as well as the diverse political cultures embodied in anti-apartheid. Taken together, these examples reveal the tensions and synergies, transnational webs and local contingencies that helped to create the sense of -being global- that united worldwide anti-apartheid campaigns.

Anna Konieczna is a teaching fellow at Sciences Po, France. Her research focuses on the history of international relations in Africa and the French foreign policy in Southern Africa. Rob Skinner is a Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Bristol, UK. His published works include The Foundations of Anti-Apartheid (2010) and Modern South Africa in World History (2017).

PART I - GLOBALISATION OF ANTI-APARTHEID.- Humanitarians, Human Rights and Anti-Apartheid; Rob Skinner.- 'We the people of the United Nations': The UN and the Global campaigns against Apartheid; Anna Konieczna.- From the theory to practice of liberation : Fanon, May '68 and the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa; Namara Burki.- PART II - SOLIDARITIES.- Cuba and apartheid; Adrien Delmas.- Race, Socialism and Solidarity: Anti-Apartheid in Eastern Europe; Paul Betts, James Mark, Idesbald Goddeeris and Kim Christiaens.- PART III - LEVERS AND NETWORKS.-  'Yusuf Dadoo, India and South Africa's liberation struggle'; Arianna Lissoni.- Anti-Apartheid Goes to Brussels: Forms of Transnational Cooperation between the Anti-Apartheid Movements of the European Community Countries, 1977-1992; Lorenzo Ferrari.- Afro-Asian Solidarity and the Anti-apartheid Movement in Japan; Kumiko Makino.- Solidarity or Anti-Apartheid? The Polish opposition and South Africa, 1976-1989; Idesbald Goddeeris and Kim Christiaens.- Anti-Apartheid, Decolonization and Transnational Solidarity: the Namibian case; Chris Saunders.- Index.