1st Edition

Postsocialist Politics and the Ends of Revolution

Edited By Neda Atanasoski, Kalindi Vora Copyright 2023
184 Pages 1 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

184 Pages 1 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

184 Pages 1 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

1. Introduction: Postsocialist politics and the ends of revolution

Neda Atanasoski and Kalindi Vora

2. The grammar of failure: dispossession, mourning, and the afterlife of socialist futurities

Thu-Huong Nguyen-Vo and Grace Kyungwon Hong

3. Rethinking socialist and Marxist legacies in feminist imaginaries of protest from postsocialist perspectives

Nina Lykke

4. Cultural politics of transgressive living: socialism meets neoliberalism in pro- North Korean schools in Japan

Kyung Hee Ha

5. Postsocialism and the Tech Boom 2.0: techno-utopics of racial/spatial dispossession

Erin McElroy

6. Syria’s anti- imperialist mask: unveiling contradictions of the left through anti- capitalist thought

Jennifer Mogannam

7. Preface to the revolution: digital specters of communism and the expiration of politics

Jonathan Beller

8. The travel of an iPhone: ineluctable connectivity, networked precarity, and postsocialist politics

Xiao Liu

9. Beyond the precariat: race, gender, and labor in the taxi and Uber economy

Julietta Hua and Kasturi Ray

10. (Re)thinking Postsocialism: Interview with Neda Atanasoski and Kalindi Vora

Lesia Pagulich and Tatsiana Shchurko

Biography

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.