In Search of a Post-Socialist Mode of Governmentality

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ID12835797
AuthorsBùi Hải Thiêm (The University of Queensland, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume43
Issue1-2
Pages80-102
Publication date2015-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAsian journal of social science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1568-4849 • E-ISSN: 2212-3857
PublisherElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1163/15685314-04301005
OpenAlexW785933587
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited6

This paper examines the mode of governmentality applicable as an analytical framework in socialist states committed to market socialism. The successes of socialist states like China and Vietnam over the past few decades since their market-based reforms are attributable to this diversifying mode of governmentality and have challenged the binary dichotomy between socialism and neoliberalism. The party-states in China and Vietnam have begun to search for a post-socialist mode of governmentality, which resonates with the departure from neoliberalism towards post-neoliberalism in various capitalist countries. In Vietnam, there are signs of reconfiguration and restructuring of the party-states in such a highly complicated and fluid context to adapt themselves to a more sustainable governmentality. This results in the amorphous and ambivalent situation of a double movement of accommodating and resisting neoliberalism. That, in turn, reveals significant implications for a transformative potential for political change

Communism · Context (archaeology · Economic system · Economics · Governmentality · Market socialism · Neoliberalism (international relations · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Socialism · Sociology · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Chinese history and philosophy · Law · Political Economy and Marxism

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