Acknowledgments
A book such as this is a testimony to the kindness and intellectual commitment of many. For this reason, we want to thank, first, all the contributors and fellow travelers who shared their views about Bandung and its many worlds and histories here. This project was only possible because it was a collective adventure forged by solidarity and trust in the value of our shared initiative to revisit our pasts and imagine alternative futures.
We are grateful for the financial support that we received for this project from the Institute for Global Law and Policy (IGLP) at Harvard Law School, Kent Law School, the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University, the Oregon Humanities Center, and the University of Oregon School of Law.
We are deeply indebted to Esther Sherman and Sarah Rutledge for crucial editorial and logistical assistance. We are also grateful to John Berger and everyone at Cambridge University Press for their enduring support.
We owe an immense amount of thanks to Usha Natarajan, John Reynolds, Amar Bhatia, and Sujith Xavier – the organizers of the Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) Conference held at the American University in Cairo in February 2015. They provided the Bandung project crucially important space to discuss, debate, and develop the chapters. This was the first time we took the project public, and a meeting with many generations of TWAILers was an especially salutary space to discuss Bandung.
We are particularly grateful to David Kennedy for providing the Bandung project a stimulating venue for an author workshop at IGLP’s 2014 Heterodox Traditions: Global Law and Policy Conference at Harvard Law School. This meeting gave us a valuable opportunity to workshop a number of chapters early in the project and develop a collective sense of the path we were taking. Our thanks to Kristen Verdeaux and her administrative team for all the logistical support in helping us convene that meeting.
We are honored to have Georges Abi-Saab opening the book, and Partha Chatterjee closing it. Readers will find that this book is inspired by and indebted to their work.
Finally, we are incredibly grateful for the love and patience of each other’s – growing, transforming, and flourishing – families. They have generously lent us to the project for long calls, editorial meetings, and author workshops; they have been kind hosts, needed distractions, and sounding boards to the editorial collective. The personal has co-mingled with the political (and professional) in the best ways possible here.
We write in our introduction that alliances can be profoundly transformative. Working on this project together has been profoundly affirming of the joys of scholarly comradeship.
