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In Projectland, anthropologist Holly High combines an engaging first-person narrative of her fieldwork with a political ethnography of Laos, more than forty years after the establishment of the Lao PDR and more than seven decades since socialist ideologues first “liberated” parts of upland country. In a remote village of Kandon, High finds that although socialism has declined significantly as an economic model, it is ascendant and thriving in the culture of politics and the politics of culture.Kandon is remarkable by any account. The villagers are ethnic Kantu (Katu), an ethnicity associated by early ethnographers above all with human sacrifice. They had repelled French control, and as the war went on, the revolutionary forces of Sekong were headquartered in Kandon territories. In 1996, Kandon village moved and resettled in a plateau area. “New Kandon” has become Sekong Province’s first certified “Culture Village,” the nation’s very first “Open Defecation Free and Model Health Village,” and the president of Laos personally granted the village a Labor Flag and Medal. High provides a unique and timely assessment of the Lao Party-state’s resettlement politics, and she recounts with skillful nuance the stories that are often cast into shadows by the usual focus on New Kandon as a success. Her book follows the lives of a small group of villagers who returned to the old village in the mountains, effectively defying policy but, in their words, obeying the presence that animates the land there. Revealing her sensibility with tremendous composure, High tells the experiences of women who, bound by steep bride-prices to often violent marriages, have tasted little of the socialist project of equality, unity, and independence. These women spoke to the author of “necessities” as a limit to their own lives. In a context where the state has defined the legitimate forms of success and agency, “necessity” emerged as a means of framing one’s life as nonconforming but also nonagentive.

Katu (Southeast Asian people) --- Socialism and culture

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"This book outlines and contributes to the foundations of Marxist-humanist communication theory, asking what is the role of communication in capitalist society? Engaging with the works of critical thinkers such as Erich Fromm, E.P. Thompson, Raymond Williams, Henri Lefebvre, Georg Lukács, Lucien Goldmann, Günther Anders, M. N. Roy, Angela Davis, C. L. R. James, Rosa Luxemburg, Eve Mitchell, and Cedric J. Robinson, the book provides readings of works that inform our understanding of how to critically theorise communication in society. The topics covered include the relationship of capitalism, racism, and patriarchy; communication and alienation; the base/superstructure-problem; the question of how one should best define communication; the political economy of communication; ideology critique; the connection of communication and struggles for alternatives. Written for a broad audience of students and scholars interested in contemporary critical theory, this book will be useful for courses in media and communication studies, cultural studies, Internet research, sociology, philosophy, political science, and economics. This is the first of five Communication and Society volumes, each one outlining the foundations of a critical theory of communication in society"--

Socialism and culture. --- Communication --- Mass media --- Social aspects. --- Social aspects.

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Proletariat --- Socialism and culture --- History --- History --- Mehring, Franz,

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Nos sociétés sont travaillées par une contradiction étonnante et inexplicable : jamais autant de gens n'ont simultanément dénoncé les conséquences sociales et politiques générées par la mondialisation ; jamais autant de gens n'ont été incapables de dépasser l'état de choses existant et d'imaginer un état social innovant au-delà du capitalisme. Cette dissociation de l'indignation d'avec tout objectif d'avenir est quelque chose de nouveau dans l'histoire de la modernité. Les processus socio-économiques apparaissent désormais bien trop complexes, voire totalement opaques à la conscience publique pour que soient jugées possibles des interventions humaines ciblées. La célèbre analyse du fétichisme développée par Marx dans le Capital ne prend qu'aujourd'hui son sens historique : ce n'est pas dans le passé du capitalisme, lorsque le mouvement ouvrier imaginait encore pouvoir transformer la situation donnée, mais seulement de nos jours que triomphe la conviction générale selon laquelle les relations sociales sont aussi peu transformables dans leur substance que le sont les choses extérieures. Si l'indignation générale suscitée par la répartition scandaleuse de la richesse et du pouvoir ne nous rend manifestement plus capable d'identifier un objectif accessible, la raison n'en est pas la disparition de l'alternative au capitalisme incarnée par le régime soviétique qui ne dispensait certains avantages sociaux qu'au prix de la privation de liberté, moins encore une transformation radicale dans notre compréhension de l'histoire et le culte du présent immédiat, mais la prédominance d'une conception fétichiste des rapports sociaux. A la lumière de cette analyse, Axel Honneth élabore les modifications conceptuelles nécessaires notamment la " liberté sociale " afin que les idées socialistes retrouvent leur virulence perdue

Socialism --- Socialisme --- Philosophie sociale --- Socialism and society --- Socialism and culture --- Globalization --- History --- Social aspects --- Philosophie sociale.

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Cuban literature --- Literature and revolutions --- Socialism and culture --- History and criticism --- History --- History