CRAFTE Working Paper Series

Crafting Entanglements: Afro-Asian Pasts of the Global Cold War

Watch out for the latest articles in our Working Paper Series Crafting Entanglements.

CRAFTE team members and guest researchers present their archival and field work, new finds on Afro-Asian entanglements, theoretical and methodological reflection pieces on the Cold War, biographical sketches, photo-essays, commented interviews and testimonies, and more here.

ISSN: 2944-7348

DOI: 10.58144/20241205-001

Studying Students with Ajoy and Bhupesh: The Archives of the Communist Party of India (CPI) in Delhi and Kolkata

Nico Putz gives a glimpse into his stint working at the party's archive(s) in New Delhi and Kolkata, collections on the students' movement, and both access and inaccessibility of materials.

Radio Listening, Private Collections & Afro-Asian Networks

How can private collections contribute to writing hitherto unexplored chapters of radio broadcasting history? Anandita Bajpai reports from her trip to Azamgarh, India, in March 2024 and her accidental discovery of radio's Afro-Asian networks.

Political Subjectivity and Revolutionary Motherhood: A Biographical Sketch of Surjeet Kaur

Tamalika Roy traces some aspects of WIDF's (Women's International Democratic Federation) India representative in East Berlin, Surjeet Kaur's life trajectory.

Discovering Internationalist Practices of "Women of the Whole World" Reflections from the IISG Amsterdam Archive Archive on Afro-Asian Entanglements during the Cold War

Tamalika Roy reports on the Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF) Collections at the IISG Archives.

From the Archives in Cameroon to the Stasi-Archiv in Berlin, Germany? Using Research Skills from African Archives to understand the German Cold War

Maria Ketzmerick-Calandrino reports on the experience of tracing life stories of interlocutors and historical research as a collaborative process.

When Afghanistan represented Egypt in the Bonn Republic: The case of an Egyptian passport and Afro-Asian Cold War diplomacy

Sonja Hegasy traces the story of a lost Egyptian passport in the Federal Republic of Germany and a unique case of Afro-Asian diplomacy in the Cold War.

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Radio Listening, Private Collections & Afro-Asian Networks

Anandita Bajpai

No. 1, July, 2024

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Studying Students with Ajoy and Bhupesh: The Archives of the Communist Party of India (CPI) in Delhi and Kolkata

Nico Putz

No. 2, August, 2024

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Discovering Internationalist Practices of "Women of the Whole World": Reflections from the IISG Amsterdam Archive on Afro-Asian Entanglements during the Cold War

Tamalika Roy

No. 3, August, 2024

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From the Archives in Cameroon to the Stasi-Archiv in Berlin, Germany? Using Research Skills from African Archives to understand the German Cold War

Maria Ketzmerick-Calandrino

No. 4, September, 2024

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Political Subjectivity and Revolutionary Motherhood:
A Biographical Sketch of Surjeet Kaur

Tamalika Roy

No. 5, November, 2024

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When Afghanistan represented Egypt in the Bonn Republic: The case of an Egyptian passport and Afro-Asian Cold War Diplomacy

Sonja Hegasy

No. 6, December, 2024

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Solidarity in War and Health:
Reflecting on the “Solidarity Ward” Exhibition in East Berlin

Maria Ketzmerick-Calandrino

No. 7, December, 2024

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The Tränenpalast: East Berlin’s Crossroads of Emotions, Afro-Asian Histories, and Concerts

Maria Ketzmerick-Calandrino

No. 8, December, 2024

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Sonic Solidarity with 'the people of Chile':
Indian Radio Listeners & anti-Pinochet voices in times of the Indian Emergency

Anandita Bajpai

No. 9, December, 2024

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"We arrived in the GDR and left Germany":
Cuban Experiences of the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Milagro Alvarez

No. 10, January, 2024

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Everyday Solidarity during Wende:
An Approach from a Life Story

Milagro Alvarez

No. 11, January, 2025

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All Articles

Radio Listening, Private Collections & Afro-Asian Networks

Studying Students with Ajoy and Bhupesh: The Archives of the Communist Party of India (CPI) in Delhi and Kolkata

Discovering Internationalist Practices of "Women of the Whole World": Reflections from the IISG Amsterdam Archive on Afro-Asian Entanglements during the Cold War

From the Archives in Cameroon to the Stasi-Archiv in Berlin, Germany? Using Research Skills from African Archives to understand the German Cold War

Political Subjectivity and Revolutionary Motherhood: A Biographical Sketch of Surjeet Kaur

When Afghanistan represented Egypt in the Bonn Republic: The case of an Egyptian passport and Afro-Asian Cold War Diplomacy

Solidarity in War and Health: Reflecting on the “Solidarity Ward” Exhibition in East Berlin

The Tränenpalast: East Berlin’s Crossroads of Emotions, Afro-Asian Histories, and Concerts

Sonic Solidarity with 'the people of Chile': Indian Radio Listeners & anti-Pinochet voices in times of the Indian Emergency

"We arrived in the GDR and left Germany": Cuban Experiences of the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Everyday Solidarity during Wende: An Approach from a Life Story

Political Subjectivity and Revolutionary Motherhood:
A Biographical Sketch of Surjeet Kaur

Solidarity in War and Health:
Reflecting on the “Solidarity Ward” Exhibition in East Berlin

Sonic Solidarity with 'the people of Chile':
Indian Radio Listeners & anti-Pinochet voices in times of the Indian Emergency

"We arrived in the GDR and left Germany":
Cuban Experiences of the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Everyday Solidarity during Wende:
An Approach from a Life Story