Postsocialist Politics and the Ends of Revolution

Herausgeber: Atanasoski, Neda; Vora, Kalindi

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Moving past the conflation of state socialism with all socialist projects, this book opens up avenues for addressing socialist projects rooted in decolonial and antiracist politics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781032342047
• ISBN-10: 1032342048
• Artikelnr.: 64358925

Autorenporträt

Neda Atanasoski is Professor and Chair of the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Maryland at College Park. She is the author of Humanitarian Violence: The US Deployment of Diversity and co-author of Surrogate Humanity: Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures. Kalindi Vora is Professor of Ethnicity, Race and Migration, and of Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies, History of Science and Medicine, and American Studies at Yale University. She is author of Life Support: Biocapital and the New History of Outsourcing, Reimagining Reproduction: Essays on Surrogacy, Labor and Technologies of Human Reproduction, and co-author of Surrogate Humanity: Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures . With the Precarity Lab, she is author of Technoprecarious.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Postsocialist politics and the ends of revolution 2. The
grammar of failure: dispossession, mourning, and the afterlife of socialist
futurities 3. Rethinking socialist and Marxist legacies in feminist
imaginaries of protest from postsocialist perspectives 4. Cultural politics
of transgressive living: socialism meets neoliberalism in pro- North Korean
schools in Japan 5. Postsocialism and the Tech Boom 2.0: techno-utopics of
racial/spatial dispossession 6. Syria's anti- imperialist mask: unveiling
contradictions of the left through anti- capitalist thought 7. Preface to
the revolution: digital specters of communism and the expiration of
politics 8. The travel of an iPhone: ineluctable connectivity, networked
precarity, and postsocialist politics 9. Beyond the precariat: race,
gender, and labor in the taxi and Uber economy 10. (Re)thinking
Postsocialism: Interview with Neda Atanasoski and Kalindi Vora