The nature of post-neoliberalism: Building bio-socialism in the Ecuadorian Amazon
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DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.01.014
Abstract: Abstract This paper explores the ideology and materiality of ‘bio-socialism’, through which the Ecuadorian government is attempting to catalyse a ‘post-neoliberal’ transition from the ‘finite resources’ of Amazonian oil reserves to the ‘infinite resources’ of… read more here.
Keywords: socialism ecuadorian; amazon; bio socialism; socialism ... See more keywords
Urban and Industrial Everyday Life under Socialism and Post-Socialism
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DOI: 10.1017/s096077731700025x
Abstract: The above quotations from two of the books under review here took me back to the early 1970s and my first weeks in Hungary. As a graduate student in sociology, struggling to get to grips… read more here.
Keywords: socialism; industrial everyday; everyday life; socialism post ... See more keywords
“What Has Jesus to Do with Socialism”? Protestant Intellectuals, Political Use of the Mandarin Union Version, and the Remaking of a Socialistic Jesus in Republican China
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DOI: 10.1017/s1356186319000440
Abstract: Abstract This article explores the ways Chinese Protestant intellectuals, when facing up to the challenge of socialism, interpreted and appropriated Chinese Gospel texts to refashion the image of Jesus. It argues that Protestant intellectuals’ political… read more here.
Keywords: socialism; jesus; political use; protestant intellectuals ... See more keywords
The German historical school on monetary calculation and the feasibility of socialism
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DOI: 10.1017/s1744137423000127
Abstract: Several scholars anticipated Ludwig von Mises's calculation argument against socialism. The present paper summarises the contributions by the members of the German Historical School of Economics who preceded Mises and provides several examples of anticipation… read more here.
Keywords: socialism; monetary calculation; historical school; german historical ... See more keywords
J.A. Symonds, socialism and the crisis of sexuality in fin-de-siècle Britain
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DOI: 10.1080/01916599.2017.1284141
Abstract: ABSTRACT This article analyses the theory of sexuality, personality and politics developed by the literary critic John Addington Symonds (1840–1893). Sections 1 and 2 introduce Symonds’ changing reputation as a modernist theorist of ‘sexual inversion’… read more here.
Keywords: crisis sexuality; sexuality fin; socialism; socialism crisis ... See more keywords
Vertical segregation of apartment building dwellers during late state socialism in Bucharest, Romania
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DOI: 10.1080/02723638.2019.1697550
Abstract: ABSTRACT This article examines patterns of within-building vertical segregation in Bucharest, Romania under late socialism using micro-data (individual/household level information) from the 1992 Romanian national census. The data allows examination of separation of households according… read more here.
Keywords: bucharest romania; socialism; segregation; segregation apartment ... See more keywords
The socialist way of life in Siberia: transformation in Buryatia
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DOI: 10.1080/13617427.2017.1382736
Abstract: element of racism, even if it is a non-explicit, ‘non-racist cultural racism’ (272). Reifová, Gillárova and Hladik examine the mnemonic function of television. They argue that popular retrospective TV serials can support the critical work… read more here.
Keywords: way life; socialism; siberia transformation; socialist way ... See more keywords
African socialism; or, the search for an indigenous model of economic development?
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DOI: 10.1080/20780389.2018.1434411
Abstract: ABSTRACT Ralph Austen in African Economic History (1987) noted how few African countries explicitly choose capitalism on independence, and for those who did it was a default model or a residual pattern. ‘African socialism’ was… read more here.
Keywords: search indigenous; socialism; african socialism; indigenous model ... See more keywords
British socialism(s) and European socialism(s)
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DOI: 10.1080/23801883.2017.1400637
Abstract: One of the legacies of the Russian revolution was to vindicate a Marxist vulgate against other forms of socialist thought, be they ‘utopian’ as Marx and above all, Engels had derogatively called earlier socialist views… read more here.
Keywords: european socialism; socialism; british socialism; century ... See more keywords
The Desperate Radicalism of Orwell’s 1984: Power, Socialism, and Utopia in Dystopian Times
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DOI: 10.1177/10659129221083286
Abstract: Though 1984 is often praised for its prescience, critics in Orwell’s time and ours have also condemned its pessimism. Orwell’s despair, the argument goes, undermines the power of his warning, representing a retreat from politics,… read more here.
Keywords: desperate radicalism; socialism; power; power socialism ... See more keywords