Critical Theories and the Postsocialist Challenge : Race, Gender, Decolonialization and Social Justice.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Todorova, Miglena S.

Series:

Studies in Critical Social Sciences Series

Studies in Critical Social Sciences Series ; v.366

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Post-communism.

Social justice.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (195 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston : BRILL, 2026.

Summary:

This book evaluates Western Anglophonic critical theories on race, gender, decolonization, and justice using an original postsocialist method that enriches fields such as Women Studies, Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studes, American Studies, and Social Justice Education.

Contents:

Front Cover

Half Title

Series Information

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Critical Theories and the Postsocialist Method

1 Why This Book?

2 Critical Theories and Studies of the United States

3 Postsocialism as a Method

4 The Postsocialist Method: Thought, Action, and Emotions

5 (Re)claiming Postsocialism

6 Chapters and Readers

7 Defining Other Key Terms

Chapter 1 Critical Decolonization and Race Theories in Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies

1 Decolonization, Knowledge, and Power

2 Knowledge and Empires: Origins of Russian, Slavic, and East European Studies

3 Decolonizing Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies?

4 Black/Race Studies and Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies

5 Re-Imagining Anti-Oppression Research in Eastern Europe and the Balkans

6 Towards Innovation in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Chapter 2 Postsocialist Interpretations of Redistribution and Social Justice

1 Social Justice Education: Core Concepts

2 Socialist State-Led Redistribution, Treatment of Cultural Differences, and Violence

3 The Problem with State-Led Redistribution and Recognition

4 Challenging Dualities: Oppressors and Oppressed in Education for Social Justice

5 On Revolutionaries and Dictators: Postsocialist Framing of Social Justice Leadership

6 The Pedagogies of Postsocialist Education for Social Justice

Chapter 3 Gender Equity, Political Economy and Violence against Women: Challenging the Paradigm

1 Root Causes of Violence against Women

2 Prevention of Violence against Women: Learning with Women in Former Socialist States

3 The "Woman's Question" versus Education and Socialization of Socialist Men

4 Violence against Women and New Socialist Gender Regimes.

5 Violence and Gender Equity: Learning from (Post)Socialism

6 Prevention after State Socialisms: The Case of Bulgaria and the Istanbul Convention

7 Gender Equity amid Unequal Geopolitical Power

8 By Way of Concluding

Chapter 4 Emotional Epistemes: Socialist, Postsocialist, and Transnational Women and Feminisms

1 Academic Feminisms: Boundaries, Dualities, and Relations

2 "Feeling" Transnational and the Local Feminisms

3 Politics and Self-Management of Women Factory Workers in Croatia

4 Women in Socialist Poland: Leaderless Strikes and the Benefits of "Disorderly" Politics

5 Roma Women Staging International Women's Day, March 8th

6 The Politics of Not Being Included

Conclusion: Critical Theories, Postsocialist Doubt, and the Future

1 Embracing Doubt

2 Critical Theories, Postsocialist Studies and the Future(s)

3 Back to the Present

Bibliography

Index

Back Cover.

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Other Format:

Print version: Todorova, Miglena S. Critical Theories and the Postsocialist Challenge

ISBN:

9789004763555

OCLC:

1593369488