Harry G West

Enduring Socialism: Explorations of Revolution and Transformation, Restoration and Continuation Harry G West

Publisher Marketing: Against the historical backdrop of successive socialist and post-socialist claims to have completely remade society, the contributors to this volume explore the complex and often paradoxical continuities between diverse post-socialist presents and their corresponding socialist and pre-socialist pasts. The chapters focus on ways in which: pre-socialist economic, political, and cultural forms in fact endured an era of socialism and have found new life in the post-socialist present, notwithstanding revolutionary socialist claims; continuities with a pre-socialist past have been produced within the historical imaginary of post-socialism; and socialist economic, political, and cultural forms have in fact endured in a purportedly postsocialist era, despite the claims of neo-liberal reformers. Harry G. West is Reader in Social Anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). His research in northern Mozambique has examined how colonialism, revolutionary socialism, and post-socialist political and economic liberalization have reconfigured institutions of local authority. Parvathi Raman is a Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). Her research in South Africa explores the historical impact of Indians in the South African Communist Party, and their contribution to the struggle against apartheid.

Contributor Bio:  West, Harry G Nuno Domingos is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at theInstituto de Ciencias Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa, and a Research Associate of the Food Studies Centre, SOAS, University of London. He has an MA in Historical Sociology from theUniversidade Nova de Lisboa, andreceived his PhD in Social Anthropology from the SOAS University of London in 2009. His doctoral research on the history of football in colonial Mozambique explored Portuguese colonialism in Mozambique through the lens of urban popular culture promoted by sports practices and consumptions. The work was recently published in Portuguese under the titleFutebol e Colonialismo: Corpo e Cultura Popular em Mocambique(Imprensa de Ciencias Sociais, Lisboa, 2012). He has published in Portugal on the history of the PortugueseEstado Novo(1933-1974) as well as on the History of Sport in Portugal. His English language publications on the history and anthropology of football in colonial Mozambique include 'Football and Colonialism, Domination and Appropriation: On the Mozambican case', Soccer and Society, vol. 4, October, 2007, pp. 478-494; and 'Urban Football Narratives and the Colonial Process in Lourenco Marques', The International Journal of the History of Sport, Vol. 28, No. 15, October 2011, pp. 2159-2175. His current research focuses on the social history of Portuguese wines and their contemporary contexts of production and consumption. He has undertaken field research in the Alentejo region of Portugal not only on wine but also (in collaboration with Harry G. West) on artisanal cheese, resulting in: West, H. G., and Domingos, N. 'Gourmandizing Poverty Food: The Serpa Cheese Slow Food Presidium, Journal of Agrarian Change, Vol. 12 No. 1, January 2012, pp. 120-143. Nuno Domingos is co-editor of the Portuguese social sciences book collectionHistoria e Sociedade(Ed. 70). He is also co-convenor of the annual Food Studies Symposium organized jointly between the SOAS Food Studies Centre and theInstituto de Ciencias Sociais.