Moving past the conflation of state socialism with all socialist projects, this book opens up avenues for addressing socialist projects rooted in decolonial and antiracist politics. To that end, this anthology brings together scholarship across regions that engages postsocialism as an analytic that connects the ‘afters’ of the capitalist– socialist dynamic to present day politics. Resisting the revolutionary teleology of what was before, “postsocialism” can function to create space to work through ongoing legacies of socialisms in the present.
Looking at the Middle East, Scandanavia, Korea, Romania, China, and the US, the chapters in this book assess ongoing socialist legacies in new ethical collectivities and networks of dissent opposing state- and corporate- based military, economic, and cultural expansionism since the end of the Cold War.
The majority of the chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal, Social Identities.
Moving past the conflation of state socialism with all socialist projects, this book opens up avenues for addressing socialist projects rooted in decolonial and antiracist politics.
1. Introduction: Postsocialist politics and the ends of revolution
2.
The grammar of failure: dispossession, mourning, and the afterlife of
socialist futurities
3. Rethinking socialist and Marxist legacies in feminist
imaginaries of protest from postsocialist perspectives
4. Cultural politics
of transgressive living: socialism meets neoliberalism in pro- North Korean
schools in Japan
5. Postsocialism and the Tech Boom 2.0: techno-utopics of
racial/spatial dispossession
6. Syrias anti- imperialist mask: unveiling
contradictions of the left through anti- capitalist thought
7. Preface to the
revolution: digital specters of communism and the expiration of politics
8.
The travel of an iPhone: ineluctable connectivity, networked precarity, and
postsocialist politics
9. Beyond the precariat: race, gender, and labor in
the taxi and Uber economy
10. (Re)thinking Postsocialism: Interview with Neda
Atanasoski and Kalindi Vora
Neda Atanasoski is Professor and Chair of the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Maryland at College Park. She is the author of Humanitarian Violence: The US Deployment of Diversity and co-author of Surrogate Humanity: Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures.
Kalindi Vora is Professor of Ethnicity, Race and Migration, and of Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies, History of Science and Medicine, and American Studies at Yale University. She is author of Life Support: Biocapital and the New History of Outsourcing, Reimagining Reproduction: Essays on Surrogacy, Labor and Technologies of Human Reproduction, and co-author of Surrogate Humanity: Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures. With the Precarity Lab, she is author of Technoprecarious.
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