<i>Lotus</i> and the Self-Representation of Afro-Asian Writers as the Vanguard of Modernity

Nabolsy, Zeyad El

doi:10.1080/1369801x.2020.1784021

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“…534-35). Furthermore, historically, vanguard elements of the national liberation movements conceived emancipatory forms of national identity, national political action, and modernity in internationalist terms, indeed stating that the Western instantiations of modernity were deficient (Nabolsy 2021).…”

Section: An Alternative For Decent Workmentioning

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Peripheral Labour and Accumulation on a World Scale in the Green Transitions

Ajl¹

2023

Social Sciences

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This commentary turns a critical lens on the perspectives of labour in the potential green transition. It shows what changes when we focus on worldwide social labour—the labour which most of humanity currently performs—and its worldwide impact, going beyond climate to damages from mining and to biodiversity and other elements of the ecology. Such an optic forces scepticism about approaches which only consider the North when it comes to a large-scale green transition. Indeed, this paper argues, using illustrative examples, how such approaches rely on suppressing the historical role of colonialism and imperialism in making First World (core) development possible. It shows how lenses such as “social reproduction” or policies such as “universal health care” focused only on the core reproduction of worldwide patterns of domination. It then puts forward the outlines of an alternative approach to decent work in the context of a worldwide green transition toward a non-hierarchical world system.

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Peripheral Labour and Accumulation on a World Scale in the Green Transitions

Ajl¹

2023

Social Sciences

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“…This allowed them to 'reconceive of nationalism in a way that would make international solidarity constitutive of the new national projects' -a model of thought promoted and supported by the intellectual underpinnings of the Afro-Asian People's Solidarity Organization, its Writers' Association and its journal Lotus, all run out of Cairo in the 1960s. 13 The Soviet Union played an active part in these organizations and provided a conceptual framework for cultivating national identities based on the model of the Soviet nationalities project of the 1920s and 1930s. 14 The return to Vladimir Lenin's project of world revolution and his vision for an association of autonomous, multi-ethnic, and equal Soviet republics, itself part of an imperial modernizing project of mass-mobilization, dominance and subordination, was invoked as a positive model and championed in the popular imagination of Soviet and Egyptian people.…”

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Imagined Solidarities: Cairo‐Moscow and the Struggle for Realist Art

Mileeva¹

2022

Art History

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This essay examines an understudied history of reciprocal art exhibitions between Cairo and Moscow during the Cold War period. It focuses on the work of Gamal El Sagini, Inji Efflatoun, and Hamed Owais, and sets out their role in forging new networks of revolutionary art in the Soviet Union. By addressing how post‐colonial art was received and utilized in Soviet Russia, this article uncovers the extent of Soviet cultural engagement with Egypt, the African national liberation struggles, pan‐Arabism, and international solidarity amongst the Second and Third Worlds more broadly. Offering a more complex reading of the processes behind Soviet involvement in the utopian project of socialist worldmaking, this essay argues for the need to assess critically Soviet claims to anti‐imperialism, peace, international solidarity, and friendship. It discusses the role of art in these processes, and addresses the changing definitions of realism, nationalism, and humanism in the socialist world, making a contribution to alternative understandings of post‐war figuration.

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Nasserism and the impossibility of innocence

Nabolsy

2021

Int Polit Rev

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Lotus and the Self-Representation of Afro-Asian Writers as the Vanguard of Modernity

Cited by 7 publications

References 12 publications

Peripheral Labour and Accumulation on a World Scale in the Green Transitions

Peripheral Labour and Accumulation on a World Scale in the Green Transitions

Imagined Solidarities: Cairo‐Moscow and the Struggle for Realist Art

Nasserism and the impossibility of innocence

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