After Utopia: Leftist Imaginaries and Activist Politics in the Postsocialist World

ISBN-13: 9780367712396 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 122 str.

Larisa Kurtovic; Nelli Sargsyan

Opis

This collection examines how the loss of state socialism as a world-making project and the subsequent failures of postsocialist "civil society building" have impacted new generations of progressive, antinationalist, anarchist, and social-justice oriented activists.

Spis treści

Introduction- After Utopia: Leftist imaginaries and activist politics in the postsocialist world 1. An archive to build a future: The recovery and rediscovery of the history of socialist associations in contemporary Bosnia- Herzegovina 2. Thinking through positionality in post- socialist politics: Researching contemporary social movements in Ukraine 3. Experience- sharing as feminist praxis: Imagining a future of collective care in Armenia 4. Movements upon movements: Refugee and activist struggles to open the Balkan route to Europe