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dc.contributor.authorKluge, Emma
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-27T01:27:16Z
dc.date.available2021-07-27T01:27:16Z
dc.date.issued2020en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2123/25774
dc.description.abstractScholars of international history have argued for the separation of decolonization struggles in Africa and Asia between 1945 and 1965 from Pacific struggles that occurred after 1960. Yet the West Papuan campaign for independence demonstrates how deeply connected decolonization in the Pacific was to anti-colonial movements in Africa and Asia. In their petitions to the United Nations, West Papuan activists drew on race and rights discourse – evoking the principles of Pan-Africanism and self-determination – to appeal to African leaders and the UN General Assembly. Ultimately West Papuan claims to independence were foreclosed due to the shifting terrain of international politics and global governance of the 1960s. Papuan activists found it hard to gain support amidst the rise of Third World power, shifting politics of human rights and self-determination, and the dynamics of the Cold War. The very conditions that had created opportunities for African and Asian nations to achieve independence worked against the claims of the West Papuans. In this article I argue that expanding the geographies and temporalities of decolonization creates a more international history of decolonization and demonstrates the transformation of anticolonial politics and global governance in the 1960s.en_AU
dc.language.isoenen_AU
dc.publisherTaylor and Francisen_AU
dc.relation.ispartofThe International History Reviewen_AU
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0en_AU
dc.subjectWest Papuaen_AU
dc.subjectdecolonizationen_AU
dc.subjectself-determinationen_AU
dc.subjectPan-Africanismen_AU
dc.subjectUnited Nationsen_AU
dc.subjectanti-colonialismen_AU
dc.titleWest Papua and the International History of Decolonization, 1961-69en_AU
dc.typeArticleen_AU
dc.subject.asrc2103 Historical Studiesen_AU
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/07075332.2019.1694052
dc.relation.arcFL130100174
dc.rights.otherThis is an Accepted Manuscript of an article [Emma Kluge, West Papua and the International History of Decolonization, 1961-69] published by Taylor & Francis in The International History Review on 02 Dec 2019, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/[https://doi.org/10.1080/07075332.2019.1694052en_AU
usyd.facultySeS faculties schools::Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences::School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiryen_AU
usyd.departmentDepartment of Historyen_AU
usyd.citation.volume42en_AU
usyd.citation.issue6en_AU
usyd.citation.spage1155en_AU
usyd.citation.epage1172en_AU
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