{"product_id":"the-gift-spaces-of-global-socialism-and-their-afterlives","title":"The Gift: Spaces of Global Socialism and Their Afterlives","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Gift: Spaces of Global Socialism and Their Afterlives\u003c\/strong\u003e examines the buildings that socialist countries donated to newly independent states in Africa and Asia during the Cold War, and what has become of them since.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout This Book\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFactories, schools, hospitals and housing were among the gifts that Soviet, Eastern European, Chinese and Cuban institutions offered the decolonising world—a highly visible way of projecting a new model of international relations. Edited by architectural historian Łukasz Stanek, this collection looks at how the moral, temporal and racial dynamics of gift exchange shaped the design and construction of these buildings in Ethiopia, Ghana, Tanzania, Mongolia, Vietnam and elsewhere, and how they have been inhabited and adapted ever since. Treating the gift as both generous and coercive, the book offers a more differentiated account of global urbanisation and its architecture, written from beyond Western Europe and North America.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eKey Features\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEssays by more than 20 historians, architects and anthropologists from Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCase studies across Ethiopia, Ghana, Tanzania, Mongolia, Vietnam and beyond\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA wealth of previously unpublished contemporary and archival images\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGrows out of Stanek's research, conference and exhibition work on architecture and global socialism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat You'll Discover\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow gifted buildings served Cold War diplomacy between socialist states and the decolonising world\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe generosity—and the violence—built into architectural gift exchange\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe long afterlives of these buildings in everyday use by their inhabitants\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA history of global urbanisation told through architectural mobilities outside the West\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the Editor\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eŁukasz Stanek is Professor of Architecture at Taubman College, University of Michigan. His book \u003cem\u003eArchitecture in Global Socialism: Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War\u003c\/em\u003e received the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion, and he co-curated the exhibition \u003cem\u003eThe Gift: Stories of Generosity and Violence in Architecture\u003c\/em\u003e at the Architekturmuseum der TUM in Munich.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eSpecifications\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Softcover\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/strong\u003e English\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9783986122461\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e JOVIS\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePerfect For:\u003c\/strong\u003e Architectural historians, urbanists and students of Cold War, postcolonial and Global South architecture.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"JOVIS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51415457071329,"sku":"9783986122461","price":94.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1116\/0464\/files\/9783986122461.jpg?v=1794362252","url":"https:\/\/bookshopbyuro.com\/products\/the-gift-spaces-of-global-socialism-and-their-afterlives","provider":"Bookshop by Uro","version":"1.0","type":"link"}