ISBN:
0816638586
,
0816638578
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (ix, 369 p)
,
24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Contradictions 15
Parallel Title:
Print version Cultural Formations of Postcommunism : Emancipation, Transition, Nation, and War
DDC:
306.2/0947
Keywords:
Political culture
;
Post-communism
;
Europe, Eastern ; Politics and government ; 1989-
;
Political culture ; Europe, Eastern
;
Post-communism ; Europe, Eastern
;
Electronic books
;
Europe, Eastern Politics and government 1989-
Abstract:
"Transition" is the name typically given to the time of radical change following the fall of communism, connoting a shift from planned to market economy, from dictatorship to democracy. Transition is also, in Michael Kennedy's analysis, a culture in its own right-with its own contentions, repressions, and unrealized potentials. By elaborating transition as a culture of power and viewing it in its complex relation to emancipation, nationalism, and war, Kennedy's book clarifies the transformations of postcommunism as well as, more generally, the ways in which culture articulates social change
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Cultural Formations of Postcommunism; 1. Emancipation and Civil Society; 2. Transition Culture and Transition Poverty; 3. Transition Culture in Business Practice; 4. Transition, Freedom, and Nationalism; 5. Environmental Problems, Civility, and Loss in Transition; 6. Transition Culture and Nationalism's Wars; Conclusion: Critical Transition Culture; Appendix A: Interview Schedule for Focus Groups; Appendix B: Coding Scheme for Focus Group Narratives; Notes; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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