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A Critique of Transition Studies on Postsocialism, or How to Rethink and Reorient 1989? The Case of (Post)Socialist (Post)Yugoslavia

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The chapter explores the prefix “post”, which often transfers a sign of crisis, but also represents specific temporality, which recently ended: history, ideology, industry, socialism. The prefix “post” was a structural mark of the transitology discourse that ideologically fueled the transition processes during the 1990s in the former socialist bloc. It will be argued that a nuanced conceptualization of “post” temporality can offer an alternative view to reassesses the very concept and recent historical transition itself. The text shall perform a concrete analysis of socialist Yugoslavia, which can be perceived as a transitional form with many transitory phases. Moreover, the mature period of self-management in 1960s was marked by the “market reform”, which allows to detect “post-socialism” at least two decades earlier than it is usually understood.

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Kirn, G. (2017). A Critique of Transition Studies on Postsocialism, or How to Rethink and Reorient 1989? The Case of (Post)Socialist (Post)Yugoslavia. In: Burchardt, M., Kirn, G. (eds) Beyond Neoliberalism. Approaches to Social Inequality and Difference. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45590-7_4

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