Enduring Socialism

Explorations of Revolution and Transformation, Restoration and Continuation
Herausgeber: West, Harry G.; Raman, Parvathi

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Produktbeschreibung

Against the historical backdrop of successive socialist and post-socialist claims to have completely remade society, the contributors to this volume explore the complex and often paradoxical continuities between diverse post-socialist presents and their corresponding socialist and pre-socialist pasts. The chapters focus on ways in which: pre-socialist economic, political, and cultural forms in fact endured an era of socialism and have found new life in the post-socialist present, notwithstanding revolutionary socialist claims; continuities with a pre-socialist past have been produced within the historical imaginary of post-socialism; and socialist economic, political, and cultural forms have in fact endured in a purportedly postsocialist era, despite the claims of neo-liberal reformers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 599g
• ISBN-13: 9781845454647
• ISBN-10: 1845454642
• Artikelnr.: 25557845

Autorenporträt

Parvathi Raman is a Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). Her research in South Africa explores the historical impact of Indians in the South African Communist Party, and their contribution to the struggle against apartheid.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contributors
Introduction: Poetries of the Past in a Socialist World Remade
Parvathi Raman and Harry G. West
Chapter 1. From Socialist Chiefs to Postsocialist Cadres: Neotraditional
Authority in Neoliberal Mozambique
Harry G. West
Chapter 2. 'For Eating, It's Guangzhou': Regional Culinary Traditions and
Chinese Socialism
Jakob A. Klein
Chapter 3. Searching for the Time of Beautiful Madness: Of Ruins and
Revolution in Post-Sandinista Nicaragua
Dennis Rodgers
Chapter 4. The Object of Morality: Rethinking Informal Networks in Central
Europe
Nicolette Makovicky
Chapter 5. Vietnamese Narratives of Tradition, Exchange and Friendship in
the Worlds of the Global Socialist Ecumene
Susan Bayly
Chapter 6. Waste under Socialism and After: A Case Study from Almaty
Catherine Alexander
Chapter 7. Corruption and the One-party State in Tanzania: The View from
Dar es Salaam, 1964-2000
John R. Campbell
Chapter 8. Media and the Limits of Cynicism in Postsocialist China
Kevin Latham
Chapter 9. The Rooted Anthropologies of East-Central Europe
Chris Hann
Chapter 10. Historical Analogies and the Commune: The Case of
Putin/Stolypin
Caroline Humphrey
Chapter 11. Signifying Something: Che Guevara and Neoliberal Alienation in
London
Parvathi Raman
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