After the revolution : youth, democracy, and the politics of disappointment in Serbia / Jessica Greenberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greenberg, Jessica, 1975- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Democracy--Serbia.

Democracy.

Students--Political activity--Serbia.

Students.

Youth--Political activity--Serbia.

Youth.

Political participation--Serbia.

Political participation.

Politics and government.

Youth--Political activity.

Students--Political activity.

Serbia--Politics and government--21st century.

Serbia.

Physical Description:

ix, 235 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2014.

Summary:

What happens to student activism once mass protests have disappeared from view, and youth embody the political frustrations, rather than the hopes of a nation? After the Revolution chronicles the lives of student activists as they confront the possibilities and disappointments of democracy in the shadow of the recent political transformation in Serbia. When student activists in Serbia helped topple dictator Slobodan Miloševic on October 5, 2000, they unexpectedly found that the postrevolutionary period brought even greater problems. Greenberg navigates through the ranks of student organizations as they transition their activism from the streets back into the halls of the university. In exploring the everyday practices of student activists-their triumphs and frustrations-After the Revolution argues that disappointment is not a failure of democracy but a fundamental feature of how people live and practice it. This fascinating book develops a critical vocabulary for the social life of disappointment with the aim of helping citizens, scholars, and policymakers worldwide escape the trap of framing new democracies as doomed to failure. Book jacket.

Contents:

Against the future : youth and the politics of disappointment in Serbia

Embodying citizenship : the changing politics of protest

Revolution and reform : citizenship and the contradictions of neoliberal university reform

The ethics of knowledge : expertise, branding, and (in)visibility as forms of democratic representation

"We have to be politicians" : proceduralism and the depoliticization of politics

Conclusion : democracy and revolution after the Cold War.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804789004

0804789002

9780804791151

0804791155

OCLC:

865537006