Rethinking Socialist Space in the Twentieth Century (St Antony's Series)

by: Marcus Colla (Editor),Paul Betts (Editor)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Edition: 2024th

Publication Date: 2024/6/11

Language: English

Print Length: 351 pages

ISBN-10: 303154580X

ISBN-13: 9783031545801

Book Description

This edited collection explores the problem of space under socialist regimes in the twentieth century. Bringing together contributions from inteational scholars with expertise in the architectural, urban, social, and cultural history of twentieth-century socialism, the book includes examples from China, Africa, Mongolia, Easte Europe and the USSR. The volume reflects on how developments in the field over the past two decades have altered our understanding of how such spaces were constructed (both literally and discursively), how they could become sites of contested meanings, and how they were perceived outside the socialist world. Moreover, the volume is conceed with how scholarly approaches associated with post-colonialism, global history, gender history, and the ‘temporal’ and ‘sensory’ tus have reconfigured our knowledge of, and approach to, the history of socialist space.

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This edited collection explores the problem of space under socialist regimes in the twentieth century. Bringing together contributions from inteational scholars with expertise in the architectural, urban, social, and cultural history of twentieth-century socialism, the book includes examples from China, Africa, Mongolia, Easte Europe and the USSR. The volume reflects on how developments in the field over the past two decades have altered our understanding of how such spaces were constructed (both literally and discursively), how they could become sites of contested meanings, and how they were perceived outside the socialist world. Moreover, the volume is conceed with how scholarly approaches associated with post-colonialism, global history, gender history, and the ‘temporal’ and ‘sensory’ tus have reconfigured our knowledge of, and approach to, the history of socialist space.