Goodbye, post-socialism? Stranger things beyond the Global East

Chelcea, Liviu

doi:10.1080/15387216.2023.2236126

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“…In this paper, we analyse how suburbanisation unfolded in East Germany after reunification. We do this against the background of ongoing debates about the concept of post-socialism (see Chelcea, 2023; Chelcea and Druţă, 2016; Ferenčuhová and Gentile, 2016; Golubchikov, 2016; Golubchikov et al, 2014; Kinossian, 2022; Müller, 2020; Salukvadze and Van Assche, 2023; Sýkora and Bouzarovski, 2012; Trubina et al, 2020; Tuvikene, 2016). We build on these debates, but also depart from them by giving the concept of neoliberalisation a more central role.…”

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Suburbanisation in East Germany

Bernt,

Volkmann

2024

Urban Studies

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Rampant suburbanisation is one of the most visible changes evidenced in cities throughout Central and Eastern Europe in the past three decades. In this paper, we analyse how suburbanisation unfolded in East Germany after reunification. We do this against the background of ongoing debates about the usefulness and meaning of the term post-socialism that have questioned the self-enclosed spatiality of the concept and suggest giving the concept of neoliberalisation a more central role in analysing the changes experienced in this part of the world. We show that the suburbanisation process in East Germany rested on three neoliberal policy orientations: (1) extensive investment stimuli for the construction of new rental housing, (2) promotion of home ownership and (3) the privileging of suburban locations through planning gaps. Since all these policies are based on neoliberal ideas, we argue that neoliberalisation and post-socialist reform agendas have appeared as two sides of the same coin. Against this background, we advocate putting the developments that came after socialism at the centre of the research and call for a new generation of studies on post-socialist neoliberalisation.

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Suburbanisation in East Germany

Bernt,

Volkmann

2024

Urban Studies

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“…Meanwhile, in an authoritarian continuity, high-ranking members of the secret services, the police, the Minister of Interior Affairs, and many currently right-wing politicians were important cadres under state socialism. Such examples of "heterochrony" also make post-socialism relevant today (Chelcea, 2023).…”

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Captured by Political Power: More-Than-Neoliberal Urban Development and Planning in Post-Socialist Hungary

Olt,

Csizmady,

Bagyura

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By critically reflecting on the concept of “post-socialist neoliberalism” proposed by this thematic issue, we argue against the widely assumed hegemony of neoliberalism, not just in the post-socialist context, but anywhere. We suggest taking features that do not fit in the narratives of neoliberalism seriously and highlighting more-than-neoliberal rationales, too. We present cases from the literature focusing on post-socialist and illiberal contexts, especially in Hungary. As the critical reading of the literature and the secondary and primary data about Hungary shows, narratives of capitalist class domination and accumulation can be less than adequate. The maintenance of clientelist or neopatrimonial relations dominated by political power with politically created rents is a separate issue. Therefore, instead of assuming “in the last instance” determination by neoliberalism, which is only camouflaged with theoretically irrelevant contextual issues, we argue for the examination of neopatrimonial relations besides neoliberalism to better understand the mechanisms behind urban development. In doing so, we can explain how power is maintained without actual development, how corruption as a mode of rule is politically accepted, and why political struggles need to consider other aspects besides fighting capitalist class domination.

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The dynamics of EU cultural policies in post-socialist urban regeneration strategies: a case study of Timișoara – European Capital of Culture 2023

Moldovan

2024

International Journal of Cultural Policy

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Goodbye, post-socialism? Stranger things beyond the Global East

Cited by 16 publications

References 62 publications

Suburbanisation in East Germany

Suburbanisation in East Germany

Captured by Political Power: More-Than-Neoliberal Urban Development and Planning in Post-Socialist Hungary

The dynamics of EU cultural policies in post-socialist urban regeneration strategies: a case study of Timișoara – European Capital of Culture 2023

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