socialism – History Health & Healing

Connecting Three Worlds: Health and Socialism in the Cold War

This conference aims to bring together scholars studying situated, highly localized experiences in various regions of the globe, while emphasizing the very international nature of socialist networks and values, and…

Socialist Governmentality? Healthcare, technologies of the self, and subjectification in European state socialism, 1945-1990

By Chiara Lacroix

The two-day workshop aims to discuss the question, whether and how Michel Foucault’s ideas on liberal (and capitalist) “governmentality” can be productively applied on contemporary or historical socialist societies. It…