Thursday, 13 June 2019
Explaining eastern Europe - Imitation and its discontents
From Eurozine - Stephen Holmes and Ivan Krastev
"For countries emerging from communism, the post-1989 imperative to ‘be like the West’ has generated discontent and even a ‘return of the repressed’, as the region feels old nationalist stirrings and new demographic pressures. The origins of illiberalism in central and eastern Europe are emotional and pre-ideological, rooted in rebellion at the humiliations that accompany a project requiring acknowledgment of a foreign culture as superior to one’s own".
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment