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The future of (post)socialism : Eastern European perspectives / edited by John Frederick Bailyn, Dijana Jelaca, and Danijela Lugaric.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- SUNY series, Pangaea II.
- SUNY series, Pangaea II: global/local studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Post-communism--Europe, Eastern.
- Post-communism.
- Socialism--Europe, Eastern.
- Socialism.
- Europe, Eastern--History--1989-.
- Europe, Eastern.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (265 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Albany, NY : SUNY Press, [2018]
- 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.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- The “Radiant Future” of Spatial and Temporal Dis/Orientations
- New Approaches to (Post)Socialism
- The Endless Innovations of the Semiperiphery and the Peculiar Power of Eastern Europe
- Socialist Future in Light of Socialist Past and Capitalist Present
- “Failing the Metronome”
- (Post)Socialist Space(S)
- “Brand” New States
- Putting the ‘Public’ in Public Goods
- Baku’s Soviet Vnye
- Memories of The Future
- Back to the Future of (Post)Socialism
- In Friction Mode
- The Futures of Postsocialist Childhoods
- Gary Marker
- Contributors
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781438471440
- 1438471440
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