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Miscommunicating Social Change

Autor Olga Baysha
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 17 oct 2018
Miscommunicating Social Change analyzes the discourses of three social movements and the alternative media associated with them, revealing that the Enlightenment narrative, though widely critiqued in academia, remains the dominant way of conceptualizing social change in the name of democratization in the post-Soviet terrain. The main argument of this book is that the "progressive" imaginary, which envisages progress in the unidirectional terms of catching up with the "more advanced" Western condition, is inherently anti-democratic and deeply antagonistic. Instead of fostering an inclusive democratic process in which all strata of populations holding different views are involved, it draws solid dividing frontiers between "progressive" and "retrograde" forces, deepening existing antagonisms and provoking new ones; it also naturalizes the hierarchies of the global neocolonial/neoliberal power of the West. Using case studies of the "White Ribbons" social movement for fair elections in Russia (2012), the Ukrainian Euromaidan (2013-2014), and anti-corruption protests in Russia organized by Alexei Navalny (2017) and drawing on the theories of Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffe, and Nico Carpentier, this book shows how "progressive" articulations by the social movements under consideration ended up undermining the basis of the democratic public sphere through the closure of democratic space.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781498558938
ISBN-10: 1498558933
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Rowman & Littlefield

Cuprins

Acknowledgements Introduction Part I. Theoretical Foundations Chapter 1. Democratic Globalization or Global Coloniality? From Perestroika to the Present. Chapter 2. The Genealogy of the Uniprogressive Imaginary Chapter 3. Discourse Theory by Laclau and Mouffe and Its Further Elaborations Part II. The Uniprogressive Discourse of Social Movements in Russia Chapter 4. ¿They Were Very Far Removed from the People¿¿ Chapter 5. White Ribbons and the Echo in the Dark Chapter 6. The New Protest Generation Chapter 7. Antagonism without Agonism Part III. The Uniprogressive Discourse of the Euromaidan Chapter 8. Shadows of the Past Chapter 9. The Uniprogressive Imagination of the Euromaidan Chapter 10. The Antagonisms of the Euromaidan Chapter 11. The Discursive-Material Knot of the Euromaidan Chapter 12. In the Name of National Unity Part IV. Conclusions Chapter 13. Global Coloniality Instead of Democratic Globalization Epilogue. Personal Reflections Bibliography Index About the Author

Notă biografică

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

Descriere

This book reveals contradictions between the supposed democratizing mission of the social movements in Russia and Ukraine and their actual conduct and its outcomes. It uses cases studies of the "White Ribbons" movement for fair elections, the Ukrainian Euromaidan (2013-2014), and anti-corruption protests in Russia organized by Alexei Navalny.