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The Interplay of “Posts” in Comparative Education

Post–Socialism and Post–Colonialism after the Cold War

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Empires, Post-Coloniality and Interculturality

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The enthusiasm over the openness of post–socialist transformations in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union was powerful, but short–lived. Perhaps momentarily, it was associated with “modernity’s final bankruptcy as an intellectual and political project,” holding the promise of new forms of social and political organization (Outhwaite & Ray, 2005, p. 99).

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    Iveta Silova

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Silova, I. (2014). The Interplay of “Posts” in Comparative Education. In: Vega, L. (eds) Empires, Post-Coloniality and Interculturality. The CESE Series. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-731-5_12

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