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SUMMARY:The Good Life in Late Socialist Asia: Aspirations, Politics, and Possibilities
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DESCRIPTION:This roundtable launches the special issue The Good Life in Lat
 e Socialist Asia: Aspirations, Politics, and Possibilities edited by Minh T
 . N. Nguyen, Phill Wilcox, and Jake Lin published by positions: asia critiq
 ue (Duke University Press) in early 2024.\n\nThe emergent quest for the goo
 d life in rapidly transforming Vietnam, Laos, and China can only be underst
 ood as part of the political economy of late socialism where capitalist mar
 ket expansion unfolds under the purview of Communist party states. As a col
 lection of nine articles by Kirsten Endres (Max Planck Institute for Social
  Anthropology), Arve Hansen (University of Oslo), Roberta Zavoretti (Univer
 sity of Cologne), Sandra Kurfurst (University of Cologne), Jiazhi Fengjiang
  (University of Edinburgh), Charlotte Bruckermann (University of Cologne), 
 Elizabeth Elliott (National University of Singapore), Fan Zhang (Peking Uni
 versity), Michael Kleinod (University of Cologne) and an epilogue by Li Zha
 ng (UC Davis), the special issue is a timely critical engagement with the n
 otion of the good life and its ramifications in late-socialist social life 
 through the perspectives of people and communities living amid rapid politi
 cal and economic transformation. While growth-based development offers vist
 as of possibility that are wider than ever, it has also engendered growing 
 social inequality, ecological decline and a broad sense of moral crisis, in
  the face of state narratives about national dreams in the making. Here, pe
 ople grapple with the question of how they can – individually and collectiv
 ely – shape lives that they consider worth living.\n\nThe special issue dem
 onstrates how the paradoxical value frameworks of late socialism generate c
 ontradictions and politics that impose limits on the possibilities of livin
 g well together. At the same time, the authors also show the moral agency o
 f people circulating between seemingly incommensurable social orders in art
 iculating their notions of the good and the motivations for their actions. 
 With contributions from all three late socialist contexts, the special issu
 e underscores how the quest for the good life is an uneven field of struggl
 e in which people seek to build futures from differing social positions in 
 increasingly differentiated societies. Contributors to this roundtable are 
 the authors of articles in the special issue and two discussants who critic
 ally engage with the themes raised by the special issue and its contributio
 ns to raise further questions for discussion. It is meant to be a dialogue 
 between the panellists and the Euroseas audience.\n\nThe roundtable is an a
 ctivity of WelfareStruggles, a project that received funding from the Europ
 ean Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon Research and 
 Innovation program (Grant agreement No 803614).
URL:https://euroseas2024.org/panels/the-good-life-in-late-socialist-asia-aspirations-politics-and-possibilities
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