Among the first anthropologists to work in Eastern Europe, Katherine Verdery had built up a significant base of ethnographic and historical expertise when the major political transformations in the region began to take place. In this collection of essays dealing with the aftermath of Soviet-style socialism and the different forms that may replace it, she explores the nature of socialism in order to understand more fully its consequences. By analyzing her primary data from Romania and Transylvania and synthesizing information from other sources, Verdery lends a distinctive anthropological perspective to a variety of themes common to political and economic studies on the end of socialism: themes such as 'civil society', the creation of market economies, privatization, national and ethnic conflict, and changing gender relations.Under Verdery's examination, privatization and civil society appear not only as social processes, for example, but as symbols in political rhetoric. The classic pyramid scheme is not just a means of enrichment but a site for reconceptualizing the meaning of money and an unusual form of post-Marxist millenarianism. Land being redistributed as private property stretches and shrinks, as in the imaginings of the farmers struggling to tame it. Infused by this kind of ethnographic sensibility, the essays reject the assumption of a transition to capitalism in favor of investigating local processes in their own terms.
Katherine Verdery is Julien J. Studley Faculty Scholar and Distinguished Professor of Anthropology. Since 1973 she has conducted field research in Romania, initially emphasizing the political economy of social inequality, ethnic relations, and nationalism. With the changes of 1989, her work has shifted to problems of the transformation of socialist systems, specifically changing property relations in agriculture. From 1993 to 2000 she did fieldwork on this theme in a Transylvanian community; the resulting book, The Vanishing Hectare: Property and Value in Postsocialist Transylvania, was published by Cornell University Press (2003). She is now completing a large collaborative project with Gail Kligman (UCLA) and a number of Romanian scholars on the opposite process, the formation of collective and state farms in Romania during the 1950s. The resulting book, Romania’s War on the Peasants: Collectivization 1949-1962, will be published in 2010. Her teaching interests include contemporary and socialist Eastern Europe, the anthropology of property, and time and space. Future projects will probably take off from her interest in land restitution into exploring other property issues, such as cultural property, rights in bio-information, cyberspatial properties, and other forms of appropriation based in new technologies. Additionally, she has received her Secret Police file from Romania and plans to write her field memoirs from the vantage point of the police who followed her.
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这本书的标题《What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next?》一出现,就立刻勾起了我内心深处对历史和未来的好奇。我一直对社会形态的演变,以及它们如何塑造我们当下的生活和未来的可能性充满浓厚的兴趣。尤其是在这个充满变革和不确定性的时代,回顾过去,审视当下,并大胆预测未来,显得尤为重要。这本书的标题暗示了一种深刻的反思,它不仅仅是在梳理一个曾经存在过的意识形态,更是在探寻它留下的遗产,以及它可能以何种形式,或者说它所引发的思考,如何引导我们走向下一个阶段。我期待这本书能够提供清晰的视角,帮助我理解社会主义作为一种理念和实践,其在历史长河中的具体表现,它所带来的成就与挑战,以及最重要的,它对于我们今天所面临的社会经济困境,和未来可能出现的解决方案,能够提供哪些启示。我希望这本书能够不仅仅停留在理论层面,而是能够深入到历史事件和现实案例中,用生动的故事和扎实的分析,让我感受到思想的脉搏,并能从中汲取智慧,更好地理解我们所处的时代,并思考我们想要创造的未来。这本书的名称本身就构成了一个引人入胜的命题,让我迫不及待地想要翻开扉页,开始这场思想的探索之旅。
评分《What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next?》这个书名,像是一个直接的提问,又像是一个学术研究的起点,立刻勾起了我探索知识的欲望。我一直在思考,人类社会是如何一步步演变到今天的,而那些曾经被认为是“未来”的社会形态,如今又变成了什么样子?社会主义,作为一种影响了世界格局的重要思潮和实践,它的兴衰起落,其内在逻辑究竟是什么?我希望这本书能够深入挖掘社会主义的本质,不仅是其经济层面的分配模式,更包括其在政治、文化、社会关系等方面的深层含义。是不是那些曾经被视为社会主义的鲜明特征,在今天以其他形式悄然存在,或者以新的面貌重新出现?而“What Comes Next?”,这个部分更是充满了悬念。它暗示着历史并非终结,而是在不断地向前发展。在科技飞速进步、全球化日益加深的当下,社会组织的可能性是否正在被重塑?这本书是否会探讨一些新兴的社会模式,或者提出一些关于未来社会结构的大胆设想?我期待这本书能够提供一些关于历史的深刻洞察,帮助我理解社会演变的规律,并对未来的发展趋势有更清晰的认识,即使是充满未知,也能获得一些思考的指引,避免陷入盲目乐观或悲观。
评分看到《What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next?》这个书名,我immediately felt a sense of intellectual curiosity. The very phrasing of the question suggests a journey through history and into the realm of speculation. I've always been fascinated by the evolution of societal structures and the enduring questions about how we organize ourselves collectively. Socialism, as a concept and as a historical force, has had such a profound and complex impact on the world. I'm eager to understand how the author defines and analyzes what socialism *was*. Does it delve into the theoretical underpinnings, the historical manifestations, and the diverse interpretations of this ideology across different nations and time periods? The second part of the title, "What Comes Next?", is particularly intriguing. It hints at a forward-looking perspective, a contemplation of what lies beyond the era of socialism, or perhaps how its legacy continues to shape future possibilities. In a world grappling with issues like economic inequality, the role of technology, and the search for sustainable social models, this book promises to offer a crucial lens through which to examine these challenges. I'm hoping for a book that not only dissects the past with rigor but also provokes thoughtful consideration about the potential pathways for future societies, perhaps offering a nuanced understanding of how past experiments inform present debates and future aspirations.
评分当我看到《What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next?》这本书的书名时,脑海中立刻涌现出无数关于社会组织形式的疑问和思考。我一直觉得,理解一个概念,尤其是一个如此宏大且富有争议的概念,需要从它的起源、发展,以及它所经历的各种实践形态入手。社会主义,这个词汇承载了太多的历史重量,包含了各种各样的理论和现实的解读。我好奇作者是如何界定“社会主义”的,它指的是一种经济制度,一种政治理想,还是一种道德主张?这本书是否会追溯到早期社会主义思潮的萌芽,比如傅里叶、欧文等人,还是会更侧重于20世纪那场波澜壮阔的革命及其后的发展?更令我着迷的是“What Comes Next?”这部分。它不像是在预言,更像是在邀请读者一起进行一场前瞻性的讨论。在当今世界,贫富差距、环境危机、技术变革等问题层出不穷,传统的社会模式似乎都面临着挑战。那么,社会主义的经验和教训,对于我们寻找新的出路,是否有借鉴意义?又或者,它会引发全新的思考,指向一种我们尚未命名的未来社会形态?我希望这本书能够提供一个严谨而又富有洞察力的分析框架,帮助我拨开历史的迷雾,看清未来的方向,即使这个方向模糊不清,也希望能获得一些思考的工具和方法。
评分The title *What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next?* immediately struck me as a profound invitation to engage with complex questions that resonate deeply in our current global landscape. My interest lies in understanding the historical trajectory of ideas that have significantly shaped human societies, and socialism is undeniably one of them. I'm curious about the author's approach to defining and exploring the multifaceted nature of socialism: its theoretical foundations, its practical implementations across various political and economic systems, and the diverse experiences of those who lived under or advocated for it. Was it a monolithic entity, or a spectrum of ideologies and practices? The latter part of the title, "What Comes Next?", is what truly captivates my imagination. It suggests that the analysis doesn't end with a historical account but extends into a thoughtful exploration of future possibilities. In an era marked by rapid technological advancements, shifting geopolitical alignments, and persistent societal challenges, understanding what follows a particular historical paradigm is crucial. I hope this book will provide not just a historical overview, but also a framework for critically assessing contemporary issues and imagining alternative societal futures, perhaps by drawing lessons from the successes and failures of past attempts at social transformation. I anticipate a work that offers intellectual depth and stimulates a dynamic engagement with the ongoing quest for a better social order.
评分我是脑子短路了还是怎样才会选一个研究俄罗斯的课啊完全不熟´д` ;
评分从罗马尼亚的经验看社会主义和转型。剧变之下写不变,总是特别有味道。(或者看似变了,但实际不是从坏变好,而是从一个问题转变成另一种问题。)“文化”和治理技术的持续性。草根国家民族志。
评分The anthropology of state
评分我是脑子短路了还是怎样才会选一个研究俄罗斯的课啊完全不熟´д` ;
评分The anthropology of state
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