List of Tables
List of Figures
Preface
Seteney Shami
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Postcommunism in a New Key
Amy Linch
Part One: General Approaches to Postcommunism
1 From Transitology to Contextual Holism
Jan Kubik
2 Social Justice, Social Science, and the Complexities of Postsocialism
Thomas C. Wolfe and John Pickles
Part Two: Gender
3 Social Justice, Hegemony, and Women’s Mobilizations
Joanna Regulska and Magdalena Grabowska
4 Grounds for Hope? Voices of Feminism and Women’s Activism in Romania
Laura Lovinvi Contents
5 Transformation to Democracy
Medea Badashvili
Part Three: Poverty
6 Poverty and Popular Mobilization in Postcommunist Capitalist Regimes
Ivan Szelenyi and Katarzyna Wilk
7 “Scandalous Ethnicity” and “Victimized Ethnonationalism”
Alina Vamanu and Iulian Vamanu
Part Four: Corruption
8 A Critique of the Global Corruption “Paradigm”
Alena V. Ledeneva
9 Informal Payments to Doctors
Rasma Karklins
10 Informal Relations in Public Procurement
Åse Berit Grødeland
Afterword. Mobilizing Justice Across Hegemonies in Place
Michael D. Kennedy
About the Contributors
Index