Theorising Social Change in Post-Soviet Countries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Theorising Social Change in Post-Soviet Countries write by Balihar Sanghera. This book was released on 2007. Theorising Social Change in Post-Soviet Countries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book traces three main approaches to the sociology of post-Soviet societies: studies guided by neoliberal theory and/or practice; work which may be termed neoconservative in orientation, and which is often a response to the first; and a third type of work that is considered both critical and reflexive, and which seeks to transcend the limitations of the other approaches. The book is divided into three parts, addressing polity, culture and economy. In each section, authors endeavour to transcend both neoliberalism and neoconservatism, and reach for a third approach, 'critical social science'. This is a broad movement, and the authors vary in their own explanatory and normative ideas as they carve out frameworks that will enable them to develop a more rigorous and at the same time more comprehensive and critical understanding of social change.
Theorizing Transition
Theorizing Transition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Theorizing Transition write by John Pickles. This book was released on 2005-08-31. Theorizing Transition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examining transformations using a variety of perspectives Theorizing Transition provides both a rich empirical map of the dimensions of post-Communism and raises important theoretical issues about how we interpret these changes.
Central Asia
Central Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Central Asia write by David W. Montgomery. This book was released on 2022-05-31. Central Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Central Asia is a diverse and complex region of the world often characterized in the West as exotic, remote, and difficult to understand. Central Asia: Contexts for Understanding offers the most comprehensive introduction to the region available for students and general readers alike. Combining thematic chapters with detailed case studies, readers will learn to appreciate the richly interconnected aspects of life in Central Asia. These wide-ranging, easy-to-understand contributions from many of the leading scholars in the field provide the context needed to understand Central Asia and presents a launching point for further reading and research.
Theorizing Transition
Theorizing Transition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Theorizing Transition write by John Pickles. This book was released on 2005-08-31. Theorizing Transition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Theorizing Transition provides a comprehensive examination of the economic, political, social and cultural transformations in post-Communist countries and an important critique of transition theory and policy. The authors create the basis of a theoretical understanding of transition in terms of a political economy of capitalist development. The diversity of forms and complexities of transition are examined through a wide range of examples from post-Soviet countries and comparative studies from countries such as Vietnam and China. Theorizing Transition challenges many of the comfortable assumptions unleashed by the euphoria of democratisation and the triumphalism of market capitalism in the early 1990s and shows transition to be much more complex than mainstream theory suggests.
Blood Ties and the Native Son
Blood Ties and the Native Son - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Blood Ties and the Native Son write by Aksana Ismailbekova. This book was released on 2017-05-22. Blood Ties and the Native Son available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An anthropologist explores the politics and society of Kyrgyzstan through a study of one influential man’s life. A pioneering study of kinship, patronage, and politics in Central Asia, Blood Ties and the Native Son tells the story of the rise and fall of a man called Rahim, an influential and powerful patron in rural northern Kyrgyzstan, and of how his relations with clients and kin shaped the economic and social life of the region. Many observers of politics in post-Soviet Central Asia have assumed that corruption, nepotism, and patron-client relations would forestall democratization. Looking at the intersection of kinship ties with political patronage, Aksana Ismailbekova finds instead that this intertwining has in fact enabled democratization—both kinship and patronage develop apace with democracy, although patronage relations may stymie individual political opinion and action. “This book is an important contribution to a growing literature on Central Asian politics and society, and by complicating dominant narratives about the dangers of weak state institutions, Ismailbekova has much to offer to the broader research project on democratization and clientelism.” —Europe-Asia Studies
