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Building Socialism: The Afterlife of East German Architecture in Urban Vietnam Christina Schwenkel Durham: Duke University Press, 2020, 432 pp.

Building Socialism: The Afterlife of East German Architecture in Urban Vietnam Christina... Book Review Building Socialism: The Afterlife of was suffused with misogyny. In this East German Architecture in Urban chapter as in others, the reality of Vinh-- Vietnam. Christina Schwenkel, Durham: both of its destruction and Duke University Press, 2020, 432 pp. reconstruction—was saturated with patriarchy, both outwardly murderous Michal Murawski ones (such as the general’s jackhammer) University College London and more subtle ones, which manifest themselves in the rebuilt, lived-in and The work of East German architects and now-privatizing city. engineers collaborating with their The last of the wartime chapters, Vietnamese counterparts to build the focused on East German solidarity Quang Trung collective housing district campaigns for Vietnam, delivers an (KTT) in Vinh City was excellent, at once sympathetic and programmatically decolonial but scathing, analysis of the complex necessarily colonial at the same time. modalities of the DDR’s “fraternal” This argument is made convincingly and comradeship. In many respects, the with uncommon vividness in Christina equivalences conjured were real, in other Schwenkel’s book, the culmination of senses they made for a fake over a decade’s worth of intense, multi- horizontality—what Schwenkel calls a sited ethnographic and archival research. “fallacy of historical resemblance”— Building Socialism is a sophisticated and between http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png City & Society Wiley

Building Socialism: The Afterlife of East German Architecture in Urban Vietnam Christina Schwenkel Durham: Duke University Press, 2020, 432 pp.

Murawski, Michal
City & Society , Volume 34 (1) – Apr 1, 2022
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Book Review Building Socialism: The Afterlife of was suffused with misogyny. In this East German Architecture in Urban chapter as in others, the reality of Vinh-- Vietnam. Christina Schwenkel, Durham: both of its destruction and Duke University Press, 2020, 432 pp. reconstruction—was saturated with patriarchy, both outwardly murderous Michal Murawski ones (such as the general’s jackhammer) University College London and more subtle ones, which manifest themselves in the rebuilt, lived-in and The work of East German architects and now-privatizing city. engineers collaborating with their The last of the wartime chapters, Vietnamese counterparts to build the focused on East German solidarity Quang Trung collective housing district campaigns for Vietnam, delivers an (KTT) in Vinh City was excellent, at once sympathetic and programmatically decolonial but scathing, analysis of the complex necessarily colonial at the same time. modalities of the DDR’s “fraternal” This argument is made convincingly and comradeship. In many respects, the with uncommon vividness in Christina equivalences conjured were real, in other Schwenkel’s book, the culmination of senses they made for a fake over a decade’s worth of intense, multi- horizontality—what Schwenkel calls a sited ethnographic and archival research. “fallacy of historical resemblance”— Building Socialism is a sophisticated and between

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