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"On the East-West" Slope explores changing cognitive geographies
with regard to Eastern Europe during the late 20th century and the
turn of the Millenium. While the fundamental poles of East and West
remain, both their meaning and their relationship to one another
have shifted profoundly since the late 1970s. The book demonstrates
the ways in which supposedly liberal characterizations of East and
West project a theoretical slope across the map of Europe, oriented
as increasingly negative from West to East. Paradoxically, a
liberal discourse of Europeanization "turns ugly" in the context of
East European politics as it generates polarizing issues, including
extreme nationalism and discriminatory racism, as in the case of
the Roma. Finally, the book argues that such paradoxes are not
paradoxes at all if we recognize that civilizational slope ideas
have a major function in maintaining and reproducing hierarchical
world economies. The book is also one of the first attempts to
create links between the postcolonial analysis of development in
the Third World and changes in Eastern Europe The book seeks to
analyze discourses underpinning mental maps of "East" and "West"
focusing on individual and institutional actors. In order to
understand the East/West positioning and identities of the
different actors, the book performs a comprehensive analysis of
discourses on population development, of mental maps presented by
global corporations and foundations and also a unique hermeneutical
analysis of narrative interviews conducted with people crossing
East/West borders in the United States, Hungary and Russia. The
book will attract a wide international readership. As the book
analyzes "empirical" material and reviews a wide range of
literature on sociology of knowledge, demography, political
science, East European Studies, and postcolonialism, it will prove
an essential resource for undergraduate and graduate students and
their professors at Western and East European Universities. Readers
in recent European nationalism, racism, the history of demographic
thought in the 20th century, postcommunism, international political
order, globalization and narrative identities are the targeted
prime users of the book.
Using Marxist and Polanyian frameworks, this book examines the
structural and discursive transformation that can explain the
polarization of migration debates and within the rise of
nationalist anti-migrant discourses in Europe with a special
attention to Eastern Europe and Hungary. It goes beyond the
mainstream explanations of these phenomena that uses nationalist
propaganda as causal factors and instead argues that the rise of
anti-immigration currents cannot be understood without a
dialectical and historical analysis of the material and discursive
transformations, most importantly marketization and related
reification. Drawing from thinkers such as Lukacs, Polanyi, and
Gramsci as well as diverse empirical sources including demographic
studies, historical modelling, and discourse analyses, Migration
Turn and Eastern Europe is a unique and rigorous study of one of
the most pressing and puzzling political and sociological questions
of our time.
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