{"id":1931,"date":"2015-02-10T17:12:17","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T17:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.damne.net\/?p=1931"},"modified":"2026-01-19T23:26:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T23:26:28","slug":"welcome-to-the-desert-of-post-socialism-radical-politics-after-yugoslavia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/?p=1931","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Desert of Post-Socialism: Radical Politics After Yugoslavia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.versobooks.com\/books\/1781-welcome-to-the-desert-of-post-socialism\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1932 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/1.jpg 209w, https:\/\/www.damne.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/1-195x300.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><\/a>Edited by Sre\u0107ko Horvat and Igor \u0160tiks<br \/>\nVerso Books, 2014<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This volume offers a profound analysis of post-socialist economic and political transformation in the Balkans, involving deeply unequal societies and oligarchical \u201cdemocracies.\u201d The contributions deconstruct the persistent imaginary of the Balkans, pervasive among outsiders to the region, who see it as no more than a repository of ethnic conflict, corruption and violence. Providing a much needed critical examination of the Yugoslav socialist experience, the volume sheds light on the recent rebirth of radical politics in the Balkans, where new groups and movements struggle for a radically democratic vision of society.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">*<strong>Sre\u0107ko Horvat<\/strong> is a philosopher and author of several books, including <em>What Does Europe Want?<\/em>, co-written with Slavoj \u017di\u017eek. He has written for the <em>Guardian<\/em>, <em>Al Jazeera<\/em> and the <em>New York Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">*<strong>Igor \u0160tiks<\/strong> has won numerous awards and been translated into a dozen European languages. His novel <em>A Castle in Romagna<\/em> was the first of his books to be published in English.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edited by Sre\u0107ko Horvat and Igor \u0160tiks<br \/>\nVerso Books, 2014<\/p>\n<p>This volume offers a profound analysis of post-socialist economic and political transformation in the Balkans, involving deeply unequal societies and oligarchical \u201cdemocracies.\u201d The contributions deconstruct the persistent imaginary of the Balkans, pervasive among outsiders to the region, who see it as no more than a repository of ethnic conflict, corruption and violence. Providing a much needed critical examination of the Yugoslav socialist experience, the volume sheds light on the recent rebirth of radical politics in the Balkans, where new groups and movements struggle for a radically democratic vision of society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1931"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4978,"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions\/4978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}