Postcommunism from Within : : Social Justice, Mobilization, and Hegemony / / ed. by Amy Linch, Jan Kubik.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Badashvili, Medea,; Grabowska, Magdalena,; Grødeland, Åse Berit,; Karklins, Rasma,; Kennedy, Michael D.,; Kubik, Jan,; Ledeneva, Alena V.,; Linch, Amy,; Lovin, Laura,; Pickles, John,; Regulska, Joanna,; Shami, Seteney,; Szelenyi, Ivan,; Vamanu, Alina,; Vamanu, Iulian,; Wilk, Katarzyna,; Wolfe, Thomas C.,
• HerausgeberIn: Kubik, Jan,; Linch, Amy,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Social Science Research Council ; 8
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; 28 black and white illustrations

While the decline of communism in the late twentieth century brought democracy, political freedom, and better economic prospects for many people, it also produced massive social dislocation and engendered social problems that were far less pronounced under the old regimes. The fall of state socialism led to enormously complex political, economic, social, and cultural transformations, and while political liberalization was a lofty goal, it was neither uniform in its effects nor unqualified in its benefits. Postcommunism from Within foregrounds the diversity of the historical experiences and current realities of people in the postcommunist region in examining how they are responding to these monumental changes at home. The original essays in this volume lay out a bold new approach to research on the postcommunist region, and to democratization studies more broadly, that focuses on the social and cultural microprocesses behind political and economic transformation. Thematic essays by eminent scholars of postcommunism from across the social sciences are supported by case studies to demonstrate the limitations of current democratization paradigms and suggest ways of building categories of research that more closely capture the role of vernacular knowledge in demanding, creating, and adapting to institutional change. A novel approach to understanding one of the greatest political and social transformations in recent history, Postcommunism from Within explores not just how citizens respond to political and economic restructuring engineered at the top but also how people enact their own visions of life, politics, and justice by responding to daily challenges.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- introduction. Postcommunism in a New Key: Bottom Up and Inside Out -- PART ONE. General Approaches to Postcommunism -- Chapter One. From Transitology to Contextual Holism: A Theoretical Trajectory of Postcommunist Studies -- Chapter Two. Social Justice, Social Science, and the Complexities of Postsocialism -- PART TWO. Gender -- Chapter Three. Social Justice, Hegemony, and Women’s Mobilizations -- Chapter Four. Grounds for Hope? Voices of Feminism and Women’s Activism in Romania -- Chapter Five. Transformation to Democracy: The Struggles of Georgian Women -- PART THREE. Poverty -- Chapter Six. Poverty and Popular Mobilization in Postcommunist Capitalist Regimes -- Chapter Seven. “Scandalous Ethnicity” and “Victimized Ethnonationalism”: Pejorative Representations of Roma in the Romanian Mainstream Media After January 2007 -- PART FOUR. Corruption -- Chapter Eight. A Critique of the Global Corruption “Paradigm” -- Chapter Nine. Informal Payments to Doctors: Corruption or Social Protest? -- Chapter Ten. Informal Relations in Public Procurement: The Case of East Central and South Eastern Europe -- Afterword. Mobilizing Justice Across Hegemonies in Place: Critical Postcommunist Vernaculars -- Contributors -- Index