An innovative account of how the concept of the 'Third World' emerged in France from the mid-1950s through to the mid-1970s alongside a new leftist movement. The book reveals how, in an age of Cold War, decolonization and development thinking, French activists rose to prominence within the political Left, established transnational contacts, and developed a new global consciousness. Using the 'Third World' concept to reinvigorate anticolonial solidarity, they supported the Algerian FLN, the Cuban Revolution, and the liberation movements in Vietnam and Portuguese Africa. Insisting on the postcolonial character of France after the end of empire, they promoted new forms of cooperation with developing countries and immigrant workers. Examining the work of French leftists in publications such as Partisans, parties such as the PSU, and associations like the CEDETIM, Kalter sheds new light on a crucial moment in France's history, the global contexts that prompted it, and its worldwide ramifications.

In the second half of the twentieth century, the transnational ‘Third World’ concept defined how people all over the globe perceived the world. This article explains the concept’s extraordinary traction by looking at the interplay of local uses and global contexts through which it emerged. Focusing on the particularly relevant setting of France, it examines the term’s invention in the context of the Cold War, development thinking, and decolonization. It then analyses the review Partisans (founded in 1961), which galvanized a new radical left in France and provided a platform for a communication about, but also with, the Third World. Finally, it shows how the association Cedetim (founded in 1967) addressed migrant workers in France as ‘the Third World at home’. In tracing the Third World’s local–global dynamics, this article suggests a praxis-oriented approach that goes beyond famous thinkers and texts and incorporates ‘lesser’ intellectuals and non-textual aspects into a global conceptual history in action.

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Das französische Unternehmen LSA (Le savoir est une arme) vertreibt Streetwear-Produkte, die an der Ästhetik des Hip-Hop und Reggae orientiert sind. Die bedruckte Kleidung von LSA artikuliert in popkultureller Formensprache einen positiven Bezug auf "schwarze", "afrikanische" oder "muslimische" Identität, auf ehe Guevara oder Maleolm X als Dritte Welt-und Black Power-Ikonen sowie auf eine kämpferisch repräsentierte Geschichte des Antikolonialismus und der Dekolonisation-die aktuelle Produktlinie "Independance Day" erinnert mit T-Shirts an die Unabhängigkeiten Tunesiens, Marokkos, Malis, Algeriens oder des Senegal. Derzeit nicht mehr im Angebot ist dagegen ein T-Shirt der Marke, auf dem das allen Französinnen und Franzosen vertraute "Sechseck" (l'Hexagone), also die konventionalisierte kartografische Darstellung" der kontinental französischen Grenzen, unter der