1st Edition
On the East-West Slope Globalization, Nationalism, Racism and Discourses on Eastern Europe
By Attila Melegh
Copyright 2006
232 Pages
by
Central European University Press
Melegh's work offers a powerful analysis of the sociological and symbolic meanings of East-West in Europe after the end of the Cold War. Melegh exposes the underbelly of liberal characterizations of East-West, highlighting the polarizing effect of extreme nationalism and ethnic racism. The theoretical underpinnings of this work involve the ideas of preeminent theorists such as Karl Mannheim,... Read more
List of Tables, Acknowledgements, Preface, Chapter 1. Liberal humanitarian utopia and Eastern and Central Europe, Chapter 2. Population discourses and East-West exclusions, Chapter 3. Floating East. Eastern and Central Europe on the map of global institutional actors, Chapter 4. I am suspicious of myself. East-West narratives at the turn of the millennium, Conclusion The sociology of the East-West slope and the recomposition of Eastern Europe, Bibliography
Biography
Attila Meleg is a sociologist, economist and historian by training. He has taught in the United States, Russia, Georgia and Hungary is a lecturer at Corvinus University of Budapest.and also works for the Demographic Research Institute, Budapest. Beside discourse analysis he also does research on sociological and historical aspects of globalization and international migration..
