Kunming provides an opportunity to examine the similarities and disparities in the socio-spatial landscape compared to well-developed cities in China and other post-socialist contexts as well as those in the West.
These are identified as (1) subsistence to market-based pastoral production, in this instance illustrated with reference solely to post-colonial Africa; (2) state-to-market-based production, examined in post-socialist contexts; and (3) the development of integrated markets linked to industrialised commodity systems.
This suggests that while the PES schemes in Vietnam partly embrace the ideals of market-oriented solutions, the socialist market context firmly embeds these programmes within contrasting political and economic agendas.
In that context, the Socialist choice of a successor to the defeated Mr. Sócrates could be critical.
Shumyatsky complained that Eisenstein had presented the conflicts of the film in somewhat Biblical terms, rather than placing the conflicts of the film in the context of the socialist class struggle.
However, Russian (as well as other post-socialist countries) historical and institutional context is profoundly different from other cases.
Urban planning, renewal and their actors are always closely connected with the sociopolitical changes and therefore the transitional post-socialist Croatia provides an interesting context for the analysis of spatial changes.
But it seems disingenuous to talk about the staged photograph, in this context, without acknowledging its Socialist Realist history.
TH: In that context, given his radical socialist heritage and his academic work on Jimmy Maxton [Independent Labour Party MP for Glasgow during the Red Clydeside era], have you been at all disappointed by Gordon Brown's chancellorship?
The first UK exhibition to present avant-garde art from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia within the context of the political conditions that provoked it begins with the 1960s rise of consumer culture and ends in the early 1980s.
