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After Utopia - Leftist Imaginaries and Activist Politics in the Postsocialist World (Hardcover)
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After Utopia - Leftist Imaginaries and Activist Politics in the Postsocialist World (Hardcover)
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This collection examines how the loss of state socialism as a
world-making project and the subsequent failures of postsocialist
"civil society building" have impacted new generations of
progressive, antinationalist, anarchist, and social-justice
oriented activists. How do the histories of state socialism come to
shape activist thinking and practice in Eastern Europe and the
Caucasus? What kinds of political work can and does emerge out of
this 30-year-long experience of political, social, and economic
transformation? Understanding postsocialism as an intersectional
experience and a geopolitically sensitive form of knowledge, this
collection of essays seeks to render visible the forms of political
activism in the region that are not tied to, or fully determined
by, specific moments of street protest and public interruption.
Instead, the contributors examine forms of activist effort that
endure in the aftermath of protest movements and in the course of
lingering crises, in order to capture how our interlocutors seek to
enact their desired futures under the conditions of intensifying
and shape-shifting pressures of neoliberal governance. The
ethnographies that span from Armenia to Ukraine, to
Bosnia-Herzegovina to the newly emerging transnational Balkan route
that refugees and migrants have created, illuminate how local
activists engage with and/or disengage from their socialist
inheritance of political imaginaries differently and imagine
different futures. Our collection argues for a need for a careful,
theoretically nuanced and context-specific analysis across the
uneven political landscapes of the former socialist world. The
chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue
of History and Anthropology.
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