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1 online resource |
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SUNY Series, Pangaea II: Global/Local Studies |
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SUNY Series, Pangaea II: Global/Local Studies
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Contents |
Intro; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction. The "Radiant Future" of Spatial and Temporal Dis/Orientations; The Unfinished Business of (Post)Socialism; Reflecting a Radiant Future; The Circuits of Intimacy; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Part 1. New Approaches to (Post)Socialism: The Theory in Transition; Chapter 1. The Endless Innovations of the Semiperiphery and the Peculiar Power of Eastern Europe; Dialectics of the Semiperiphery; The Diffusion of the Yugoslav Self-Management Model; Isomorphism and the Semiperiphery |
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The Contested Theorization Trajectory of Civil SocietyEastern Europe as Neoliberal Testing Ground; Eastern Europe and the Reinvention of the Right; Notes; References; Chapter 2. Socialist Future in Light of Socialist Past and Capitalist Present; Introduction; Socialist Past; Explaining the Demise of the Soviet System; Capitalist Present; Socialist Future; Notes; References; Chapter 3. "Failing the Metronome": Queer Reading of the Postsocialist Transitio; Fast-Forward from Backwardness; There is No Transition; "I am Dizzy and Weak From the Sudden Transition"; Notes; References |
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Part 2. (Post)Socialist Space(s)Chapter 4. "Brand" New States: Postsocialism, the Global Economy of Symbols, and the Challenges of National Differentiation; Branding the Nation: A Précis of the Practice and Its Goals; The Curious Knot: An Overview of the Relationship between State Branding and (Post)Socialism; "This is Jüri": Making Estonians, or the Evolution of the Postsocialism's Branded Wunderkind; Notes; References; Chapter 5. Putting the 'Public' in Public Goods: Space Wars in a Post-Soviet Dacha Community; Introduction: Revisiting the "Grand Dichotomy." |
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The Public and the Private in a Post-Soviet Dacha SettlementOther(s) of Novoogradnoe; Materializing Divides, Partitioning Space; "For the Moms and Financed by the Moms": The Playground Story; Conclusion: Soviet Legacies in Post-Soviet Times; Notes; References; Chapter 6. Baku's Soviet Vnye: The Post-Soviet Creation of a Soviet Past; Introduction; The Spaces of Baku Neighborhoods; Sociability in Baku Neighborhoods; Gangs and Neighborhood Territoriality; The Bakinets: Remembering a Multiethnic Idyll; A Lost Space of Sociability: Home as Nostalgia; References; Archival Sources |
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Primary Source PeriodicalsMemoir, Literature, and Autobiography; Scholarly Studies; Part 3. Memories of the Future; Chapter 7. Back to the Future of (Post)Socialism: The Afterlife of Socialism in Post-Yugoslav Cultural Space; Socialist Futurologists; It is Not the Future that Always Comes After; The Breakup of Yugoslavia-The Breakup of Memory; A Cultural Return of Socialism; When Remembrance Turns into History ... and History Turns into Art; Modes and Tonalities; Fifty Shades of Socialism; Postsocialist Futurologists: A Possible New Phase?; Acknowledgment; Notes; References |
Summary |
If socialism did not end as abruptly as is sometimes perceived, what remnants of it linger today and will continue to linger? Moreover, if postsocialism is an umbrella term for the uncertain times of various transitions that followed in socialism's wake, how might the "post" be rendered complicated by the notion that the unfinished business of socialism continues to influence the trajectory of the future? The Future of (Post)Socialism examines this unfinished business through various disciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches that seek to illuminate the postsocialist future as a cultural and social fact. Drawn from the fields of history, ethnology, anthropology, sociology, economics, political science, education, linguistics, literature, and cultural studies, contributors analyze various cultural forms and practices of the formerly socialist cultural spaces of Eastern Europe. In so doing, they question the teleology of linear transitional narratives and of assumptions about postsocialist linear progress, concluding that things operate more as continued interruptions of a perpetually liminal state rather than as neat endings and new beginnings |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Post-communism -- Europe, Eastern
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Socialism -- Europe, Eastern
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Communism & Socialism.
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Post-communism
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Socialism
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Europe, Eastern -- History -- 1989-
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Eastern Europe
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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Electronic book
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Author |
Bailyn, John F., editor
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Jelača, Dijana, 1979- editor.
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Lugarić-Vukas, Danijela, 1979- editor.
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ISBN |
9781438471440 |
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1438471440 |
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