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The Future of (Post)Socialism: Eastern European Perspectives

The Future of (Post)Socialism: Eastern European Perspectives

Bailyn, John Frederick
Jelača, Dijana
Lugaric, Danijela

Hardcover

Series: Suny Series, Pangaea II: Global/Local Studies

Eastern European HistorySocial Movements

ISBN10: 1438471432
ISBN13: 9781438471433
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Nov 1 2018
Pages: 278
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

Explores the current and future trajectories of the paradigm of postsocialism.

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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