Library Catalog
Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

Enduring Socialism : Explorations of Revolution and Transformation, Restoration and Continuation / ed. by Parvathi Raman, Harry G. West.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2008]Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (286 p.)Content type:
Media type:
Carrier type:
ISBN:
  • 9781845454647
  • 9781845458720
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 335 22/eng/20230216
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources:
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
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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number URL Status Notes Barcode
eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781845458720

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

restricted access online access with authorization star

http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec

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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024)