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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Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2008] ©2009 |
Year of Publication: | 2008 |
Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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