... by Nancy N. Chen, Constance D. Clark, Suzanne Z. Gottschang, and Lyn Jeffery. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. ———. 2001b . Migration and privatization of space and power in late socialist China. American Ethnologist 28 : 179 -205. ———. 2001c . Strangers in the city: Reconfigurations...

... becomes possible. In 1977, Jamaica witnessed the birth of one of the Caribbean’s first gay activist organizations, the Gay Freedom Movement (GFM), during the democratic socialist administration of the newly independent island’s then prime minister Michael Manley. By situating GFM in relation to Jamaica’s...

... enduring socialist legacies of art, sovereignty, and reading between the lines of state power come into play in new urban settings. 2014 Just when they seem engaged in revolutionizing themselves and things, in creating something that has never yet existed . . . they . . . conjure up the spirits...

... , as a socialist alternative to a neoliberal state. Copyright 2018 Duke University Press 2018 Bourdieu capitalism Mauss neoliberalism niceness Despite a penchant for nastiness, Donald Trump seems preoccupied with niceness. In a barrage of tweets, for instance, he vilified the New York Times...

...” and therefore not permitted to leave the national territory (Plagens and Katel 1992). As Cuba moved to salvage its economy from the deep crisis caused by the loss of its socialist trading partners, much of the state infrastructure of cultural pro...

... of political consensus [notes for a socialist debate]). Cuadernos de Nuestra América 10 , no. 20: 20 -45. ____. 1999 . Comrades and investors: The uncertain transition in Cuba. In Global capitalism versus democracy: Socialist register 1999 , edited by Leo Panitch and Colin Leys. New York: Monthly...

.... Established in 1949, it was central to the Maoist state’s total control over the arts-training a new generation in socialist realism, excluding all other styles or languages in art, and focusing all artistic activity on “serving the people” (i.e., the Party-State). Architecturally, this centrally...

....” Part of a chain of state retail establishments set up by the German Democratic Repub- lic (GDR) for hard currency sales, the Intershop had formerly served as a type of duty-free store for Western time travelers on their rare visits to the world of the East. In socialist days, these stores stocked...

... of representation in late Soviet society. Though different, each case nonetheless appears to utilize a com- mon substitutive logic of signification: The Experts reveals the failure of meto- nymic socialist realism to protect the symbolic order from the corrupting influ- ence of metaphorical parallelism; while...

... Tale The story of China’s economic reforms in the closing decades of the twentieth century is well known. Scholars and journalists have scrutinized the difficulties, promises, and implications of a vast socialist country embarking upon...

.... A specific consequence of such shifts for the generality of “Western Marxism” was that many, perhaps most, such intellectuals were to be engaged less in thinking through the problems of rebuilding a socialist movement in the advanced capitalist countries and more with theoretical problems, especially...

.... In Stalin's Time. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Fitzpatrick , Sheila . 1993. “Becoming Cultured: Socialist Realism and the Representation of Privilege and Taste.” In The Cultural Front: Power and Culture in Revolutionary Russia. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Foucault , Michel...

... of this contradiction - revolutionary anti-colonialism; the most advanced socialist political practice in the most backward peasant econ- omy; the direct, historic, prolonged combat between socialism and imperialism; the utterly unequal balance of forces- was condensed in the Vietnam War” (28). That three...

... it. Yet the government has dismissed all legally grounded argu- ments, and the conservative parliamentary majority voted for the law, which was also approved by a few prominent socialist and communist leaders. Beyond the affair’s legal dimension is another quite striking aspect: the huge gap...

... gives them a ghostly aura. The Viet Cong’s use of fallow peasant time as the resource for socialist edu- cation and military training, analyzed here by Duy Lap Nguyen, trumped the advanced capitalist war logic of the American army, which required measured, timely, and conclusive outcomes...

... (Ranajit Guha rather than Irfan Habib) and his reverence for the canon (“the great texts of the canon are great because . . . you know, they are great” sort of attitude) has some sinister implication for the socialist movement. My point...

... nonwhite peoples in agrarian settings in the eastern and southern zones of the inhabitable earth. This attention to a key term like East/West, then, lets us see how language itself associates the racial with the socialist...

... science, this type of logic would come to dominate, if not the whole world, then certainly the whole of the socialist world. Observational Science and the Science of Government Calculation lies at the heart of the contemporary social...

..., pain, and memory flashed into Xiaoming’s life story, highlighting a social Ftrauma that runs through the lives of dagongmei, migrant working daughters, in this time of restructuring for China’s state socialist system. Reform-era China is imaged through a lens focused squarely on the global market...

..., socialist, and avant-garde counterinstitutions of the early twentieth century. Republican Murals, Identity, and Communication in Northern Ireland Lyell Davies The working-class neighborhoods of Northern Ireland, a mix of red brick terrace...