Enduring Socialism : : Explorations of Revolution and Transformation, Restoration and Continuation / / ed. by Parvathi Raman, Harry G. West.
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 past...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013 |
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Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2008] ©2009 |
Year of Publication: | 2008 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (286 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- INTRODUCTION Poetries of the Past in a Socialist World Remade -- CHAPTER 1 From Socialist Chiefs to Postsocialist Cadres: Neotraditional Authority in Neoliberal Mozambique -- CHAPTER 2 ‘For Eating, It’s Guangzhou’: Regional Culinary Traditions and Chinese Socialism -- CHAPTER 3 Searching for the Time of Beautiful Madness: Of Ruins and Revolution in Post-Sandinista Nicaragua -- CHAPTER 4 The Object of Morality: Rethinking Informal Networks in Central Europe -- CHAPTER 5 Vietnamese Narratives of Tradition, Exchange and Friendship in the Worlds of the Global Socialist Ecumene -- CHAPTER 6 Waste under Socialism and After: A Case Study from Almaty -- CHAPTER 7 Corruption and the One-party State in Tanzania: The View from Dar es Salaam, 1964–2000 -- CHAPTER 8 Media and the Limits of Cynicism in Postsocialist China -- CHAPTER 9 The Rooted Anthropologies of East-Central Europe -- CHAPTER 10 Historical Analogies and the Commune: The Case of Putin/Stolypin -- CHAPTER 11 Signifying Something: Che Guevara and Neoliberal Alienation in London -- Index |
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Summary: | 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. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781845458720 9783110998283 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9781845458720 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | ed. by Parvathi Raman, Harry G. West. |