Mythologies of Capitalism and the End of the Soviet Project (eBook)

Olga Baysha (Autor)

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2014
182 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-8803-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Applying postcolonial, poststructural, and globalization theories to post-Soviet transformations, author Olga Baysha seeks to explain the gap between how the intellectuals and working people of the late USSR imagined marketization and democratization.

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The purpose of The Mythologies of Capitalism and the End of the Soviet Project is to show that in order to understand popular disillusionment with democratization, liberalization, and other transformations associated with the attempts of non-Western societies to appropriate the ideas of Western modernity, one must consider how these ideas are mythologized in the course of such appropriations. Olga Baysha argues that the seeds of popular post-revolutionary frustration should be sought in pre-revolutionary discourses on democracy, liberalism, and other concepts of Western modernity that are produced outside local contexts and introduced through the channels of global communication and the interpretations of politicians, activists, and experts. Analyzing the opinions of working people and intellectuals published in two Ukrainian newspapers of perestroika times, the author shows how the concepts of democracy, the market, and the West acquired schizophrenic mythical significations. The study is situated within the context of Ulrich Beck's theory of world risk society and Gregory Bateson's theory of schizophrenia as communicative disorder. The author argues that schizophrenic mythologies constructed through globalized networks can lead to disorientation, frustration, and the sense of uncertainty and insecurity on the part of mass publics.

Autor

Olga Baysha is assistant professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation.

Inhalt

MythologiesPerestroikaPERESTROIKACHAPTER 8. The Twilight ZoneThe Spirit of HopelessnessWorld Risk SocietyThe Logic of Both / AndCHAPTER 9. Schizophrenia as a Communicative Disorder Double BindNetwork Schizophrenia and the Public SphereCHAPTER 10. Personal ReflectionsCONCLUSIONBIBLIOGRAPHYPrimary Sources: Media ArticlesSecondary SourcesAPPENDIX A. Research DesignData CollectingCodingAPPENDIX B. Statistical Results

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.8.2014
• Zusatzinfo: 12 Illustrations including: - 12 Tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Wirtschaft
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
• Schlagworte: Democratization • global communication • Globalization • Perestroika • The USSR • Ukraine
• ISBN-10: 0-7391-8803-8 / 0739188038
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-8803-3 / 9780739188033