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Miscommunicating social change : lessons from Russia and Ukraine

Olga Baysha (Author)
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
eBook, English, 2019
Lexington Books, Lanham, 2019
1 online resource (xv, 229 pages)
9781498558945, 1498558941
1050143626
Cover; Miscommunicating Social Change; Miscommunicating Social Change: Lessons from Russia and Ukraine; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Theoretical Foundations; Chapter 1; Democratic Globalization or Global Coloniality?; The Uniprogressive Discourse of Soviet Perestroika; The Uniprogressive Discourse of the Movement for Fair Elections in Russia; The Uniprogressive Discourse of the Euromaidan; The Uniprogressive Discourse of an Anti-Corruption Movement in Russia; Totalitarianism in the Name of Democracy and Progress; Notes; Chapter 2 The Genealogy of the Uniprogressive ImaginaryBreaking the Link Between Uniprogressivism and Democratic Theorizing; Note; Chapter 3; Discourse Theory by Laclau and Mouffe and Its Further Elaborations; Nico Carpentier's Discursive-Material Knot; The Uniprogressive Discourse of Social Movements in Russia; Chapter 4; "They Were Very Far Removed from the People . . ."; 2004-2005: The Anti-Monetarization Uprising; Soviet Nostalgia; 2011-2013: Russia without Putin!; 2017: New Protests, Old Problems; Notes; Chapter 5; White Ribbons and the Echo in the Dark "Us" vs. "Them": Echo's Framing of Putin SupportersNotes; Chapter 6; The New Protest Generation; Putin's Russia and Its Barbarians; The "Non-Whipped Generation" and the West; Notes; Chapter 7; Antagonism without Agonism; Was There Really Nothing Positive about "Sovok"?; Note; The Uniprogressive Discourse of the Euromaidan; Chapter 8; Shadows of the Past; Ukraine's Difficult Totality; Donbas Uprising; Notes; Chapter 9; The Uniprogressive Imagination of the Euromaidan; A European Dream; The Euromaidan's Outside; We Are "The People"; Notes; Chapter 10; The Antagonisms of the Euromaidan "Not All of Them Are Here for Money"Notes; Chapter 11; The Discursive-Material Knot of the Euromaidan; The Lack of Vision; Provocateurs vs. Activists; Euromaidan Radicals; The Spiral of Animosity; The Wounds of the Anti-Maidan; The Materiality of Destruction; The Agency of the Anti-Maidan; Note; Chapter 12; In the Name of National Unity; From "Anti-Maidan" to "Separatism"; From "Separatism" to "Terrorism"; Notes; Conclusions; Chapter 13; Global Coloniality Instead of Democratic Globalization; Alternative Articulations; Global Democratization; Epilogue; Note; Bibliography; Index