Chapter One. From Transitology to Contextual Holism: A Theoretical Trajectory of Postcommunist Studies

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Tables vii
4. Figures ix
5. Preface xi
6. Acknowledgments xiii
7. introduction. Postcommunism in a New Key: Bottom Up and Inside Out 1
8. PART ONE. General Approaches to Postcommunism
9. Chapter One. From Transitology to Contextual Holism: A Theoretical Trajectory of Postcommunist Studies 27
10. Chapter Two. Social Justice, Social Science, and the Complexities of Postsocialism 95
11. PART TWO. Gender
12. Chapter Three. Social Justice, Hegemony, and Women’s Mobilizations 139
13. Chapter Four. Grounds for Hope? Voices of Feminism and Women’s Activism in Romania 191
14. Chapter Five. Transformation to Democracy: The Struggles of Georgian Women 211
15. PART THREE. Poverty
16. Chapter Six. Poverty and Popular Mobilization in Postcommunist Capitalist Regimes 229
17. Chapter Seven. “Scandalous Ethnicity” and “Victimized Ethnonationalism”: Pejorative Representations of Roma in the Romanian Mainstream Media After January 2007 265
18. PART FOUR. Corruption
19. Chapter Eight. A Critique of the Global Corruption “Paradigm” 297
20. Chapter Nine. Informal Payments to Doctors: Corruption or Social Protest? 333
21. Chapter Ten. Informal Relations in Public Procurement: The Case of East Central and South Eastern Europe 346
22. Afterword. Mobilizing Justice Across Hegemonies in Place: Critical Postcommunist Vernaculars 385
23. Contributors 409
24. Index 417