1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910785510003321

Autore

Kavaliauskas Tomas

Titolo

Transformations in Central Europe between 1989 and 2012 [[electronic resource] ] : geopolitical, cultural, and socioeconomic shifts / / Tomas Kavaliauskas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Md., : Lexington Books, c2012

ISBN

1-283-58444-1

9786613896896

0-7391-7411-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 p.)

Disciplina

943.0009/049

Soggetti

Post-communism - Europe, Central

Post-communism - Europe, Eastern

Geopolitics

Social change

Europe, Central Politics and government 1989-

Europe, Eastern Politics and government 1989-

Europe, Central Social conditions 1989-

Europe, Eastern Social conditions 1989-

Europe, Central Economic conditions 1989-

Europe, Eastern Economic conditions 1989-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; 1 Defining Central Europe as a Postcommunist Region; 2 Positive and Negative Freedom in Central Europe before and after 1989; 3 Virtual and Real Freedom in Central Europe after 1989; 4 The Complete and Incomplete Transition in Central Europe; 5 Fluctuating Socioeconomics and Postsocialist Inverted Morals; 6 The Salvation of the Two Europes in 1968 from the Perspective of 1989; 7 Vilnius 10 Group-Geopolitical Emancipation or a Lost Opportunity for Angelic Moral Politics?; 8 The Demiurge of the EU and Central Europe

9 Different Meanings Applied to May 9th Victory Day in WWII10 Social



and Political Meaning of Light in Central Europe before and after 1989; 11 Communist Nostalgia as Extrapolation of the Past into the Present; 12 Katyń Does Not Happen Twice; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Transformations in Central Europe between 1989 and 2012: Geopolitical, Cultural, and Socioeconomic Shifts by Tomas Kavaliauskas, is an in-depth study of the transformations in Central Europe in the years since the fall of Communism. In a comparative analysis of geopolitical, ethical, cultural, and socioeconomic shifts, this essential text investigates post-communist countries including Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and Slovenia. </sp

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910854400003321

Autore

Udupa Sahana

Titolo

Digital Unsettling : Decoloniality and Dispossession in the Age of Social Media

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley : , : New York University Press, , 2023

©2023

ISBN

9781479819164

1479819166

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 pages)

Collana

Critical Cultural Communication Series

Altri autori (Persone)

DattatreyanEthiraj Gabriel

Disciplina

302.231

Soggetti

Decolonization

Social media and society

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Series Editors -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction: Unsettling -- 1: Campus: University as a Site of Struggle -- 2: Extreme: Right-Wing Politics and Contentious Speech -- 3: Capture: The Coloniality of Contemporary Data Relations -- 4: Knowledge/Citation: The Production and Curation of Counter-



Knowledge -- 5: Home/Field: On the Vulnerabilities and Potentials of Remixing Colonial Locations -- Coda: Reflections on Ethics and Method -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Authors

Sommario/riassunto

How digital networks are positioned within the enduring structures of coloniality. The revolutionary aspirations that fueled decolonization circulated on paper--as pamphlets, leaflets, handbills, and brochures. Now--as evidenced by movements from the Arab Spring to Black Lives Matter--revolutions, protests, and political dissidence are profoundly shaped by information circulating through digital networks. Digital Unsettling is a critical exploration of digitalization that puts contemporary "decolonizing" movements into conversation with theorizations of digital communication. Sahana Udupa and Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan interrogate the forms, forces, and processes that have reinforced neocolonial relations within contemporary digital environments, at a time when digital networks--and the agendas and actions they proffer--have unsettled entrenched hierarchies in unforeseen ways. Digital Unsettling examines events--the toppling of statues in the UK, the proliferation of #BLM activism globally, the rise of Hindu nationalists in North America, the trolling of academics, among others--and how they circulated online and across national boundaries. In doing so, Udupa and Dattatreyan demonstrate how the internet has become the key site for an invigorated anticolonial internationalism, but has simultaneously augmented conditions of racial hierarchy within nations, in the international order, and in the liminal spaces that shape human migration and the lives of those that are on the move. Digital Unsettling establishes a critical framework for placing digitalization within the longue duree of coloniality, while also revealing the complex ways in which the internet is entwined with persistent global calls for decolonization.