Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Contributors vii
4. INTRODUCTION Poetries of the Past in a Socialist World Remade 1
5. CHAPTER 1 From Socialist Chiefs to Postsocialist Cadres: Neotraditional Authority in Neoliberal Mozambique 29
6. CHAPTER 2 ‘For Eating, It’s Guangzhou’: Regional Culinary Traditions and Chinese Socialism 44
7. CHAPTER 3 Searching for the Time of Beautiful Madness: Of Ruins and Revolution in Post-Sandinista Nicaragua 77
8. CHAPTER 4 The Object of Morality: Rethinking Informal Networks in Central Europe 103
9. CHAPTER 5 Vietnamese Narratives of Tradition, Exchange and Friendship in the Worlds of the Global Socialist Ecumene 125
10. CHAPTER 6 Waste under Socialism and After: A Case Study from Almaty 148
11. CHAPTER 7 Corruption and the One-party State in Tanzania: The View from Dar es Salaam, 1964–2000 169
12. CHAPTER 8 Media and the Limits of Cynicism in Postsocialist China 190
13. CHAPTER 9 The Rooted Anthropologies of East-Central Europe 214
14. CHAPTER 10 Historical Analogies and the Commune: The Case of Putin/Stolypin 231
15. CHAPTER 11 Signifying Something: Che Guevara and Neoliberal Alienation in London 250
16. Index 271