Overview
- Represents the first comprehensive collection of works that does not analyze just one discipline in relation to 1989 and the "end of history"
- Includes not only analyses of changed reality, but analyses of the changes within academia and scholarship
- Examines events that took place before 1989 which contributed to the fall of the Soviet Union
Part of the book series: Approaches to Social Inequality and Difference (ATSIAD)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Epistemic and Conceptual Shifts in the Wake of 1989
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New Narratives of Capitalism: Interrogating Knowledge Production and Ethnography
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About this book
This book is a result of discussions at and support from the Irmgard Coninx Fundation.
Reviews
“This will prove to be a landmark volume not only for the historical and political sociology of post-communist Europe but for wider academic understanding of neoliberal capitalism. The transmutation of global capitalism is provocatively assessed by a host of leading voices that has been assembled here to reflect on the local instances of a networked crisis. That novel predicament demands a new conceptual vocabulary and a new approach to the methods of social science. This rich and stimulating book offers a massive contribution to both.” (Paul Gilroy, King’s College, London, England)
“The authors of the present volume ¬ an impressive array of thinkers from various disciplines and continents ¬ assess the significance of 1989 on social theory and challenge, [notably] thanks to [vivid] ethnographic studies, the concepts we, as social scientists and citizens, use to describe the world we live in. Seldom has ethnography been put to such a stimulating contribution.” (Barbara Thériault, Université de Montréal, Canada)
“This provocative collection examines the complex and contradictory effects of the end of the Cold War on social theory, scholarship, and academic discourse in a variety of fields. Some of the contributions also analyze today's neoliberal capitalism, and forms of resistance to it, and dare to imagine social life beyond neoliberalism. This volume will interest anyone interested in the social and intellectual legacies of "1989" and the nature of the present era.” (Jeff Goodwin, New York University, USA)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Gal Kirn is a Humboldt postdoctoral fellow at Humboldt University, Germany. He is also the author of Ruptures and Contradictions of Market Socialism (2015), and is a co-editor of Encountering Althusser (2012), Yugoslav Black Wave Cinema and its Transgressive Moments (2012), and Postfordism and its Discontents (2010).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Beyond Neoliberalism
Book Subtitle: Social Analysis after 1989
Editors: Marian Burchardt, Gal Kirn
Series Title: Approaches to Social Inequality and Difference
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45590-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-45589-1Published: 27 February 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83325-5Published: 13 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-45590-7Published: 20 February 2017
Series ISSN: 2946-305X
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3068
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 279
Topics: Social Structure, Social Inequality, Sociological Theory, Social Theory