Introduction: Anti-Apartheid in Global History (original) (raw)

We define global history as an ‘approach’ that seeks to analyse the process of globalisation, which requires the assessment of different scales of integration, contacts, and exchanges that transcend and by-pass local or national borders and have an impact on societies and states. As such, global history focuses on the channels through which connections between local and global perspective are made and unmade, but, ultimately, it also takes into consideration spaces that have resisted globalisation or remained ‘unglobalised’. Therefore, our volume identifies three channels that played a role in generating and sustaining anti-apartheid across the world: the global/local spaces in which this globalisation took place, the multi-layered concept of solidarity, and multilateral or specialised cultural networks, before considering the ‘globality’ of anti-apartheid itself. Our volume includes several new case studies of anti-apartheid networks operating outside of the Western world (Eastern ...