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Miscommunicating Social Change: Lessons from Russia and Ukraine

Miscommunicating Social Change: Lessons from Russia and Ukraine

Baysha, Olga

Hardcover

General ReferenceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1498558933
ISBN13: 9781498558938
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Oct 18 2018
Pages: 246
Weight: 1.20
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

This open access title analyzes the discourses of three social movements and the alternative media associated with them, revealing that the Enlightenment narrative, though widely critiqued in academia, remains the dominant way of conceptualizing social change in the name of democratization in the post-Soviet terrain. The main argument of this book is that the progressive imaginary, which envisages progress in the unidirectional terms of catching up with the more advanced Western condition, is inherently anti-democratic and deeply antagonistic. Instead of fostering an inclusive democratic process in which all strata of populations holding different views are involved, it draws solid dividing frontiers between progressive and retrograde forces, deepening existing antagonisms and provoking new ones; it also naturalizes the hierarchies of the global neocolonial/neoliberal power of the West. Using case studies of the White Ribbons social movement for fair elections in Russia (2012), the Ukrainian Euromaidan (2013-2014), and anti-corruption protests in Russia organized by Alexei Navalny (2017) and drawing on the theories of Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffe, and Nico Carpentier, this book shows how progressive articulations by the social movements under consideration ended up undermining the basis of the democratic public sphere through the closure of democratic space.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow

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