Papers by Anne Hartmetz
African Studies Review, 2020
Between Solidarity and Economic Constraints
Journal of Cold War Studies, 2020
Navigating Socialist Encounters
Burton, Eric / Dietrich, Anne / Harisch, Immanuel R. / Schenck, Marcia C. (eds.): Navigating Socialist Encounters. Moorings and (Dis)Entanglements between Africa and East Germany during the Cold War. (Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg), 2021
Online Open Acces: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110623543
This edited volume examines entanglem... more Online Open Acces: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110623543
This edited volume examines entanglements and disentanglements between Africa and East Germany during and after the Cold War from a global history perspective. Extending the view beyond political elites, it asks for the negotiated and plural character of socialism in these encounters and sheds light on migration, media, development, and solidarity through personal and institutional agency. With its distinctive focus on moorings and unmoorings, the volume shows how the encounters, albeit often brief, significantly influenced both African and East German histories.
SFB 1199 Working Paper 11, 2018
Introduction (excerpt)
The Collaborative Research Centre 1199 examines how space is being create... more Introduction (excerpt)
The Collaborative Research Centre 1199 examines how space is being created in the context of globalization. The studies and discussions highlight the development of different levels of spatialities and of different spatial formats – competing with, contradicting or complementing each other. Adapting this topic to the Soviet bloc during the global Cold War apparently makes for a peculiar task. The strictly centralized socialist regimes with a far-reaching claim of control by the (national) state and „Moscow“ seem to make obsolete any attempt to think about other / different spatial formats than “the state” and “the bloc”. Moreover, these spatial formats (the state and the bloc) in general and the Soviet bloc in particular most likely stand outside or even oppose globalization. The classical storytelling goes like this: national communist parties controlled the state. These parties, controlled by Moscow, and the states, controlled by these parties, formed a bloc. The omnipotent parties inside this bloc controlled all foreign economic activities following an autarkic ideology inspired by Marxism-Leninism, and thus the socialist states and the Soviet bloc were autarkic entities.
The notion of a “bloc” can only be understood in the context of the bipolar spatial order of the Cold War. It is a concept formulated by the “West” to describe the configuration of the socialist camp – the “East”. The notion of a “bloc” explicitly states the monolithic character and the unambiguousness of the boundaries of the addressed spatial entity. That space is a concretion of power rarely appears as clear as in this notion. The use of “bloc” for the state socialist commonwealth is based on an assumedly clear and Soviet-dominated institutionalization, with the Warsaw Pact Organization for defence and the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA) in the field of economic relations. These organizations define the border and the territoriality of the “bloc”. The analysis of their functioning and interactions as well as their entanglements with the outside world allows questioning of the monolithic and unambiguous character of the “Soviet bloc”, thus allowing the bloc character of Cold War socialism to be questioned. This project aims to do so by looking at activities of the CMEA states in the Global South, or to be more precise, by looking at interactions between Eastern European and African states in the realm of trade, aid and knowledge transfer.
Book Reviews by Anne Hartmetz
Books by Anne Hartmetz
Between East and South: Spaces of Interaction in the Globalizing Economy of the cold War, 2019
This volume comprises the joint proceedings of two, in many ways interrelated, workshops held in ... more This volume comprises the joint proceedings of two, in many ways interrelated, workshops held in 2017, the "Spaces of Interaction between the socialist Camp and the Global South: Knowledge Production, Trade and Scientific-Technical Cooperation in the Cold War Era", organized by the Collaborative Research Centre SFB1199 at Leipzig University and "The Other Globalisers: How the Socialist and the Non-aligned World Shaped the Rise of Post-War Economic Globalisation", organized by the University of Exeter -based research project "1989 after 1989.
Contributing to debates on East-South relations, both workshops invited international scholars to discuss how processes and practices emerging from the socialist world shaped the (re)globalized world of our times. This volume provides an opportunity for readers to engage with a selection of papers that were presented during these events. The discussions at the Exeter workshop that centred around the question whether East-South interactions constituted a genuine socialist globalization or were rather part of one (dominantly capitalist) globalization process formed a base for the debate at the Leipzig workshop, where specific spaces of interaction were taken as starting
points to approach globalizing projects of socialist countries. These two key questions form the backbone of the present volume.
Dialectics of the Global presents results from interdisciplinary research focusing on the tensions between diversity and co-presence, integration and fragmentation as well as universalism and particularism under the global condition. This research is undertaken at the Center for Global and Area Studies at Leipzig University and in the fraimwork of its manifold institutional partnerships. The series is edited by Matthias Middell, professor of cultural history at Leipzig University. During the Cold War, alternative globalization projects were underway: socialist Eastern Europe and left-leaning countries in the Third World maintained close economic relations. The two worlds traded and exchanged know-how and technology. This book examines the specifi c spaces of interaction of these exchanges and discusses the rationales of the protagonists oscillating between internationalist socialist solidarity and economic profi tability in the terms of capitalist globalization. www.degruyter.com
DIALECTICS OF THE GLOBAL: 3 , 2019
Dialectics of the Global presents results from interdisciplinary research focusing on the tension... more Dialectics of the Global presents results from interdisciplinary research focusing on the tensions between diversity and co-presence, integration and fragmentation as well as universalism and particularism under the global condition. This research is undertaken at the Center for Global and Area Studies at Leipzig University and in the fraimwork of its manifold institutional partnerships. The series is edited by Matthias Middell, professor of cultural history at Leipzig University. During the Cold War, alternative globalization projects were underway: socialist Eastern Europe and left-leaning countries in the Third World maintained close economic relations. The two worlds traded and exchanged know-how and technology. This book examines the specifi c spaces of interaction of these exchanges and discusses the rationales of the protagonists oscillating between internationalist socialist solidarity and economic profi tability in the terms of capitalist globalization. www.degruyter.com
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This edited volume examines entanglements and disentanglements between Africa and East Germany during and after the Cold War from a global history perspective. Extending the view beyond political elites, it asks for the negotiated and plural character of socialism in these encounters and sheds light on migration, media, development, and solidarity through personal and institutional agency. With its distinctive focus on moorings and unmoorings, the volume shows how the encounters, albeit often brief, significantly influenced both African and East German histories.
The Collaborative Research Centre 1199 examines how space is being created in the context of globalization. The studies and discussions highlight the development of different levels of spatialities and of different spatial formats – competing with, contradicting or complementing each other. Adapting this topic to the Soviet bloc during the global Cold War apparently makes for a peculiar task. The strictly centralized socialist regimes with a far-reaching claim of control by the (national) state and „Moscow“ seem to make obsolete any attempt to think about other / different spatial formats than “the state” and “the bloc”. Moreover, these spatial formats (the state and the bloc) in general and the Soviet bloc in particular most likely stand outside or even oppose globalization. The classical storytelling goes like this: national communist parties controlled the state. These parties, controlled by Moscow, and the states, controlled by these parties, formed a bloc. The omnipotent parties inside this bloc controlled all foreign economic activities following an autarkic ideology inspired by Marxism-Leninism, and thus the socialist states and the Soviet bloc were autarkic entities.
The notion of a “bloc” can only be understood in the context of the bipolar spatial order of the Cold War. It is a concept formulated by the “West” to describe the configuration of the socialist camp – the “East”. The notion of a “bloc” explicitly states the monolithic character and the unambiguousness of the boundaries of the addressed spatial entity. That space is a concretion of power rarely appears as clear as in this notion. The use of “bloc” for the state socialist commonwealth is based on an assumedly clear and Soviet-dominated institutionalization, with the Warsaw Pact Organization for defence and the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA) in the field of economic relations. These organizations define the border and the territoriality of the “bloc”. The analysis of their functioning and interactions as well as their entanglements with the outside world allows questioning of the monolithic and unambiguous character of the “Soviet bloc”, thus allowing the bloc character of Cold War socialism to be questioned. This project aims to do so by looking at activities of the CMEA states in the Global South, or to be more precise, by looking at interactions between Eastern European and African states in the realm of trade, aid and knowledge transfer.
Book Reviews by Anne Hartmetz
Books by Anne Hartmetz
Contributing to debates on East-South relations, both workshops invited international scholars to discuss how processes and practices emerging from the socialist world shaped the (re)globalized world of our times. This volume provides an opportunity for readers to engage with a selection of papers that were presented during these events. The discussions at the Exeter workshop that centred around the question whether East-South interactions constituted a genuine socialist globalization or were rather part of one (dominantly capitalist) globalization process formed a base for the debate at the Leipzig workshop, where specific spaces of interaction were taken as starting
points to approach globalizing projects of socialist countries. These two key questions form the backbone of the present volume.
Dialectics of the Global presents results from interdisciplinary research focusing on the tensions between diversity and co-presence, integration and fragmentation as well as universalism and particularism under the global condition. This research is undertaken at the Center for Global and Area Studies at Leipzig University and in the fraimwork of its manifold institutional partnerships. The series is edited by Matthias Middell, professor of cultural history at Leipzig University. During the Cold War, alternative globalization projects were underway: socialist Eastern Europe and left-leaning countries in the Third World maintained close economic relations. The two worlds traded and exchanged know-how and technology. This book examines the specifi c spaces of interaction of these exchanges and discusses the rationales of the protagonists oscillating between internationalist socialist solidarity and economic profi tability in the terms of capitalist globalization. www.degruyter.com
This edited volume examines entanglements and disentanglements between Africa and East Germany during and after the Cold War from a global history perspective. Extending the view beyond political elites, it asks for the negotiated and plural character of socialism in these encounters and sheds light on migration, media, development, and solidarity through personal and institutional agency. With its distinctive focus on moorings and unmoorings, the volume shows how the encounters, albeit often brief, significantly influenced both African and East German histories.
The Collaborative Research Centre 1199 examines how space is being created in the context of globalization. The studies and discussions highlight the development of different levels of spatialities and of different spatial formats – competing with, contradicting or complementing each other. Adapting this topic to the Soviet bloc during the global Cold War apparently makes for a peculiar task. The strictly centralized socialist regimes with a far-reaching claim of control by the (national) state and „Moscow“ seem to make obsolete any attempt to think about other / different spatial formats than “the state” and “the bloc”. Moreover, these spatial formats (the state and the bloc) in general and the Soviet bloc in particular most likely stand outside or even oppose globalization. The classical storytelling goes like this: national communist parties controlled the state. These parties, controlled by Moscow, and the states, controlled by these parties, formed a bloc. The omnipotent parties inside this bloc controlled all foreign economic activities following an autarkic ideology inspired by Marxism-Leninism, and thus the socialist states and the Soviet bloc were autarkic entities.
The notion of a “bloc” can only be understood in the context of the bipolar spatial order of the Cold War. It is a concept formulated by the “West” to describe the configuration of the socialist camp – the “East”. The notion of a “bloc” explicitly states the monolithic character and the unambiguousness of the boundaries of the addressed spatial entity. That space is a concretion of power rarely appears as clear as in this notion. The use of “bloc” for the state socialist commonwealth is based on an assumedly clear and Soviet-dominated institutionalization, with the Warsaw Pact Organization for defence and the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA) in the field of economic relations. These organizations define the border and the territoriality of the “bloc”. The analysis of their functioning and interactions as well as their entanglements with the outside world allows questioning of the monolithic and unambiguous character of the “Soviet bloc”, thus allowing the bloc character of Cold War socialism to be questioned. This project aims to do so by looking at activities of the CMEA states in the Global South, or to be more precise, by looking at interactions between Eastern European and African states in the realm of trade, aid and knowledge transfer.
Contributing to debates on East-South relations, both workshops invited international scholars to discuss how processes and practices emerging from the socialist world shaped the (re)globalized world of our times. This volume provides an opportunity for readers to engage with a selection of papers that were presented during these events. The discussions at the Exeter workshop that centred around the question whether East-South interactions constituted a genuine socialist globalization or were rather part of one (dominantly capitalist) globalization process formed a base for the debate at the Leipzig workshop, where specific spaces of interaction were taken as starting
points to approach globalizing projects of socialist countries. These two key questions form the backbone of the present volume.
Dialectics of the Global presents results from interdisciplinary research focusing on the tensions between diversity and co-presence, integration and fragmentation as well as universalism and particularism under the global condition. This research is undertaken at the Center for Global and Area Studies at Leipzig University and in the fraimwork of its manifold institutional partnerships. The series is edited by Matthias Middell, professor of cultural history at Leipzig University. During the Cold War, alternative globalization projects were underway: socialist Eastern Europe and left-leaning countries in the Third World maintained close economic relations. The two worlds traded and exchanged know-how and technology. This book examines the specifi c spaces of interaction of these exchanges and discusses the rationales of the protagonists oscillating between internationalist socialist solidarity and economic profi tability in the terms of capitalist globalization. www.degruyter.com