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.
Harry G. West is Reader in Social Anthropology at the School of
Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). His research in northern
Mozambique has examined how colonialism, revolutionary socialism,
and post-socialist political and economic liberalization have
reconfigured institutions of local authority.
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.
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