Postcommunism from Within : : Social Justice, Mobilization, and Hegemony /

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

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 socialis...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 28 black and white illustrations
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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

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