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History, Geography and Difference in the Post-socialist World: Or, Do We Still Need Post-Socialism?
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Antipode . Mar2008, Vol. 40 Issue 2, p312-335. 24p. - Publication Year :
- 2008
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Abstract
- This paper seeks to build on ongoing work in east central Europe and the former Soviet Union—in geography and beyond—to think through the conceptualisation of post-socialism. The rationale for this is threefold. Firstly, we see a need to understand post-socialist conditions as they are lived and experienced by those in the region. Secondly, we seek to challenge the persistent tendency to marginalise the experiences of the non-western world in a discourse of globalisation and universalisation. Thirdly, we identify a need to ask how the conditions of post-socialism reshape our theorising more widely. Centring our analysis on history, geography and difference, we review a wide range of perspectives on the socialist and post-socialist, but argue for a strategic essentialism that recognises post-socialist difference without eclipsing differences. In outlining how we might understand history, geography and difference in post-socialism, we draw on key theorisations from post-colonialism (such as the articulation of the post- with the pre-, the relationship to the west, the rethinking of histories/categories, the end of the post) and outline post-socialisms that are partial and not always explanatory but nevertheless important. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00664812
- Volume :
- 40
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Antipode
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 31648571
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8330.2008.00593.x