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X-WR-CALNAME:Book Talk: Post-Imperial Possibilities: Eurasia\, Eurafrica\, 
 Afroasia
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DESCRIPTION:After the dissolution of empires\, was the nation-state the onl
 y way to unite people politically\, culturally\, and economically? In Post
 -Imperial Possibilities\, historians Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper exa
 mine three large-scale\, transcontinental projects aimed at bringing toget
 her peoples of different regions to mitigate imperial legacies of inequali
 ty. Eurasia\, Eurafrica\, and Afroasia—in theory if not in practice—of
 fered alternative routes out of empire. The theory of Eurasianism was deve
 loped after the collapse of imperial Russia by exiled intellectuals aliena
 ted by both Western imperialism and communism. Eurafrica began as a design
  for collaborative European exploitation of Africa but was transformed in 
 the 1940s and 1950s into a project to include France’s African territori
 es in plans for European integration. The Afroasian movement wanted to rep
 lace the vertical relationship of colonizer and colonized with a horizonta
 l relationship among former colonial territories that could challenge both
  the communist and capitalist worlds. Both Eurafrica and Afroasia flounder
 ed\, victims of old and new vested interests. But Eurasia revived in the 1
 990s\, when Russian intellectuals turned the theory’s attack on Western 
 hegemony into a recipe for the restoration of Russian imperial power. Whil
 e both the system of purportedly sovereign states and the concentrated mig
 ht of large economic and political institutions continue to frustrate proj
 ects to overcome inequities in welfare and power\, Burbank and Cooper’s 
 study of political imagination explores wide-ranging concepts of social af
 filiation and obligation that emerged after empire and the reasons for the
 ir unlike destinies.\n\nJane Burbank is Professor Emerita of History and R
 ussian and Slavic Studies at New York University. She is the author of Int
 elligentsia and Revolution and Russian Peasants Go to Court.\n\nFrederick 
 Cooper is Professor Emeritus of History at New York University. He is the 
 author of Citizenship between Empire and Nation\, Africa since 1940\, and 
 Citizenship\, Inequality\, and Difference. Burbank and Cooper are coauthor
 s of Empires in World History (Princeton).\n\nRSVP here
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LOCATION:History Corner\, Room 307
SUMMARY:Book Talk: Post-Imperial Possibilities: Eurasia\, Eurafrica\, Afroa
 sia
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 sibilities_eurasia_eurafrica_afroasia
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