Postsocialisms Unbound: Connections, Critiques, Comparisons

This is the introduction to a cluster of Slavic Review articles that argue for retaining and expanding the analytic rubric of postsocialism beyond the era of “transition” and beyond the conventional borders of the former Soviet bloc. With primary attention to recent developments in anthropology, Dou...

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Published in:Slavic review 2010-04, Vol.69 (1), p.1-15
Main Author: Rogers, Douglas
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anthropology
Borders
Cold wars
Criticism
Cultural anthropology
Cultural change
Cultural studies
Democracy
Ethnography
Heuristics
Linguistic anthropology
Perception
Political anthropology
Political culture
Post-communist societies
Postsocialisms Unbound
Russian culture
Scholarship
Slavic languages
Slavic studies
Social science research
Socialism
Socialist states
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Summary:This is the introduction to a cluster of Slavic Review articles that argue for retaining and expanding the analytic rubric of postsocialism beyond the era of “transition” and beyond the conventional borders of the former Soviet bloc. With primary attention to recent developments in anthropology, Douglas Rogers outlines and evaluates three strategies for unbinding postsocialisms: exploring connections and circulations that lead outward from the formerly socialist world; embarking on new kinds of critical projects that call categories of western social science into question; and developing new varieties and vectors of comparison, especially among socialist and postsocialist contexts around the world. Each of these strategies builds upon and extends the work of the first two decades of research on eastern European and former Soviet postsocialisms. Each also points to significant areas of recent scholarship that new research on postsocialisms is primed to join.
ISSN:0037-6779
2325-7784
DOI:10.1017/S0037677900016673