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Ideology and Social Protests in Eastern Europe: Beyond the Transition's Liberal Consensus book cover

1st Edition

Ideology and Social Protests in Eastern Europe Beyond the Transition's Liberal Consensus

By Veronika Stoyanova Copyright 2018
200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge
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This book argues that the recent political mobilizations in Eastern Europe have been underpinned by a class struggle between a more conservative and a more radical line of contention. The latter line, the book contends, is designed by and for subaltern groups whose anti-systemic programme calls for not just the eradication of corruption, but for more participatory forms of democracy, for social... Read more

CONTENTS

　

1. Introduction: studying popular mobilisation in the post-socialist context

2. Anti-populism and its critics: the battle over the ‘liberal consensus’

3. Classificatory struggles and civil society through the lens of Gramsci’s theory of hegemony and Bloch’s theory of ideology and utopia

4. The concept of civil society during the ‘transition’: its road to hegemony and its utopian surplus

5. Against the liberal consensus: a civil society of the people

6. In defence of the liberal consensus: civil society of the middle class

7. Hegemonic class struggles over the liberal consensus in the post-socialist context

　

Biography

Veronika Stoyanova is an Associate Lecturer in the Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research at the University of Kent in Canterbury

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