Socialist fragments East and West: Towards a comparative anthropology of global (post-)socialism

IF 1.5 3区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Critique of Anthropology Pub Date : 2022-05-01 DOI:10.1177/0308275X221095938

R. Deakin, G. Nicolescu

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Abstract

This article initiates a comparative anthropological analysis of the legacies and endurances of socialism in two different European contexts. It draws on ethnographic and historical material relating to the UK and Romania, 40 years after the first efforts to privatize central elements of the welfare state in the UK and 30 years after the collapse of state socialism in central and eastern Europe. Rather than restricting our analysis to the ‘East’ and the 20th century, as is often the case in the literature on post-socialism, we argue for the need to attend to socialism’s historical border-crossings as well as its persistence today as a set of practices and imaginaries which are not wedded to one historically existing state form. Through controversies around the demolition of council (public) housing estates in London and exploration of work practices in cooperatives of production in Romania this article illustrates such historical border-crossings, and comparatively analyses the contemporary curation of what we call ‘socialist fragments’ at both these sites.

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东西方社会主义碎片：走向全球（后）社会主义的比较人类学

本文对两个不同的欧洲背景下社会主义的遗产和持久性进行了人类学的比较分析。它借鉴了与英国和罗马尼亚有关的民族志和历史材料，这是在英国首次将福利国家的核心要素私有化40年后，也是在中欧和东欧国家社会主义崩溃30年后。我们没有像后社会主义文献中经常出现的那样，将我们的分析局限于“东方”和20世纪，而是认为有必要关注社会主义的历史过境点，以及它作为一套实践和想象在今天的坚持，这些实践和想象不与一种历史上存在的国家形式相结合。通过对伦敦市政（公共）住宅区拆迁的争议和对罗马尼亚生产合作社工作实践的探索，本文阐述了这种历史性的过境点，并比较分析了我们所说的这两个地点的“社会主义碎片”的当代策展。

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Critique of Anthropology ANTHROPOLOGY-

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期刊介绍： Critique of Anthropology is dedicated to the development of anthropology as a discipline that subjects social reality to critical analysis. It publishes academic articles and other materials which contribute to an understanding of the determinants of the human condition, structures of social power, and the construction of ideologies in both contemporary and past human societies from a cross-cultural and socially critical standpoint. Non-sectarian, and embracing a diversity of theoretical and political viewpoints, COA is also committed to the principle that anthropologists cannot and should not seek to avoid taking positions on political and social questions.