The Comintern and the Global South: Global Designs/Local Encounters

The Comintern and the Global South: Global Designs/Local Encounters explores the relations and tensions between the Third International and anti-imperialist,anti-racist,and nationalist organizing, highlighting how actors from Global South contexts shaped key debates on the role of Black, Indigenous, and migrant labor, the Islamic question, and the peasant question. This juncture between the Comintern's global designs and local encounters left a significant legacy that would later be reconfigured in mid-century anticolonial movements.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 250 pages
Publication date: 30 December 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

The Comintern and the Global South: Global Designs/Local Encounters delves into the intricate interplay and conflicting dynamics between the Third International and intellectual histories of racial justice and anti-imperialism, as well as other forms of internationalism. By building upon existing institutional narratives of the Third International, the book ventures into uncharted territories by highlighting the intersections – often contentious and fleeting – with anti-imperialist, anti-racist, and nationalist organizing. This unique approach makes the Third International a focal point where a global political project intersects with more localized and regional contexts. The diverse range of geographic and linguistic expertise among the contributors enables the book to trace exchange routes that often go unnoticed in previous studies of the Third International.

The chapters in this book explore how actors from Global South contexts influenced crucial debates on topics such as the role of Black, Indigenous, and migrant labor, the Islamic question, and the peasant question. These issues posed challenges to Bolshevik epistemological frameworks and involved political subjectivities that the Comintern attempted to narrowly frame within a global revolution led by Moscow. However, this convergence of the Comintern's global designs with its local encounters ultimately led to its disintegration. Nevertheless, the legacy of this juncture remains significant, as it would later be reconfigured and reimagined in the mid-century anticolonial movements.

Weight: 400g
Dimension: 233 x 156 x 18 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367724856