Author: Daina StukulsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
Transformation, Normalization, and Representation in Postcommunism
Author: Daina StukulsGlobalizations and Social Movements
Author: John GuidryPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472023411
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
Globalization is a set of processes that are weakening national boundaries. Both transnational and local social movements develop to resist the processes of globalization--migration, economic interdependence, global media coverage of events and issues, and intergovernmental relations. Globalization not only spurs the creation of social movements, but affects the way many social movements are structured and work. The essays in this volume illuminate how globalization is caught up in social movement processes and question the boundaries of social movement theory. The book builds on the modern theory of social movements that focuses upon political process and opportunity, resource mobilization and mobilization structure, and the cultural framing of grievances, utopias, ideologies, and options. Some of the essays deal with the structure of international campaigns, while others are focused upon conflicts and movements in less developed countries that have strong international components. The fourteen essays are written by both well established senior scholars and younger scholars in anthropology, political science, sociology, and history. The essays cover a range of time periods and regions of the world. This book is relevant for anyone interested in the politics and social change processes related to globalization as well as social-movement theory. Mayer Zald is Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan. Michael Kennedy is Vice Provost for International Programs, Associate Professor of Sociology, and Director of the Center for Russian and East European Affairs, University of Michigan. John Guidry is Assistant Professor of Political Science, Augustana College.
Intellectuals and the Articulation of the Nation
Author: Ronald Grigor SunyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
An interdisciplinary look at the role of intellectuals in the making of nations
The Social and Economic Transformation of the Rural Latvian Landscape
Author: George DaugavietisSpace and the Everyday
Author: Naomi Roslyn GaltzStaging Postcommunism
Author: Vessela S. WarnerPublisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1609386787
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Theatre in Eastern and Central Europe was never the same after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. In the transition to a postcommunist world, “alternative theatre” found ways to grapple with political chaos, corruption, and aggressive implementation of a market economy. Three decades later, this volume is the first comprehensive examination of alternative theatre in ten former communist countries. The essays focus on companies and artists that radically changed the language and organization of theatre in the countries formerly known as the Eastern European bloc. This collection investigates the ways in which postcommunist alternative theatre negotiated and embodied change not only locally but globally as well. Contributors: Dennis Barnett, Dennis C. Beck, Violeta Decheva, Luule Epner, John Freedman, Barry Freeman, Margarita Kompelmakher, Jaak Rahesoo, Angelina Ros ̧ca, Ban ̧uta Rubess, Christopher Silsby, Andrea Tompa, S. E. Wilmer
Slavic Review
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
"American quarterly of Soviet and East European studies" (varies).
Politics of Memory in Postcommunist Europe
Author: Corina DobosPublisher: Zeta Books
ISBN: 9731997865
Category : Collective memory
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Postcommunism and the Theory of Democracy
Author: Richard D. Anderson Jr.Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691230943
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
Why did the wave of democracy that swept the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe starting more than a decade ago develop in ways unexpected by observers who relied on existing theories of democracy? In Postcommunism and the Theory of Democracy, four distinguished scholars conduct the first major assessment of democratization theory in light of the experience of postcommunist states. Richard Anderson, Steven Fish, Stephen Hanson, and Philip Roeder not only apply theory to practice, but using a wealth of empirical evidence, draw together the elements of existing theory into new syntheses. The authors each highlight a development in postcommunist societies that reveals an anomaly or lacuna in existing theory. They explain why authoritarian leaders abandon authoritarianism, why democratization sometimes reverses course, how subjects become citizens by beginning to take sides in politics, how rulers become politicians by beginning to seek popular support, and not least, how democracy becomes consolidated. Rather than converging on a single approach, each author shows how either a rationalist, institutionalist, discursive, or Weberian approach sheds light on this transformation. They conclude that the experience of postcommunist democracy demands a rethinking of existing theory. To that end, they offer rich new insights to scholars, advanced students, policymakers, and anyone interested in postcommunist states or in comparative democratization.
Post-Communist Democratization
Author: John S. DryzekPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521001380
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
This book examines the way democracy is thought about and lived by people in the post-communist world.