Bailyn / Jelaca / Lugaric The Future of (Post)Socialism

Eastern European Perspectives
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-4384-7144-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 278 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series, Pangaea II: Global/Local Studies

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bailyn, John Frederick

Jelaca, Dijana

Lugaric, Danijela

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments

Introduction: The “Radiant Future” of Spatial and Temporal Dis/Orientations
Dijana Jelaca and Danijela Lugaric

Part I. New Approaches to (Post)Socialism: The Theory in Transition

1. The Endless Innovations of the Semiperiphery and the Peculiar Power of Eastern Europe
David Ost

2. Socialist Future in Light of Socialist Past and Capitalist Present
David M. Kotz

3. “Failing the Metronome”: Queer Reading of the Postsocialist Transition
Jelisaveta Blagojevicand Jovana Timotijevic

Part II. (Post)Socialist Space(s)

4. “Brand” New States: Postsocialism, the Global Economy of Symbols, and the Challenges of National Differentiation
Robert A. Saunders

5. Putting the ‘Public’ in Public Goods: Space Wars in a Post- Soviet Dacha Community
Olga Shevchenko

6. Baku’s Soviet Vnye: The Post- Soviet Creation of a Soviet (?) Past
Heather D. DeHaan

Part III. Memories of the Future

7. Back to the Future of (Post)Socialism: The Afterlife of Socialism in Post- Yugoslav Cultural Space
Maša Kolanovic

8. In Friction Mode: Contesting the Memory of Socialism in Zagreb’s Marshal Tito Square
Sanja Potkonjak and Nevena Škrbic Alempijevic

9. The Futures of Postsocialist Childhoods: (Re)Imagining the Latvian Child, Nation, and Nature in Educational Literature
Iveta Silova

Afterword
Gary Marker

Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

John Frederick Bailyn is Professor of Linguistics at Stony Brook University, State University of New York, and the author of The Syntax of Russian. Dijana Jelaca teaches in the Film Department at Brooklyn College and is the author of Dislocated Screen Memory: Narrating Trauma in Post-Yugoslav Cinema. Danijela Lugaric is Assistant Professor of East-Slavic Languages and Literature at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. She is the coeditor (with Jelaca and Maša Kolanovic) of The Cultural Life of Capitalism in Yugoslavia: (Post)Socialism and Its Other.