Rather than discrete worlds, these spaces are entangled in shared and complex histories of Marxism, of the legacies of party-state systems and of planned economies. They are also ‘Non-Western’ and usually ‘Non-Aligned’ spaces, which briefly found political expression in the BRICS alliance. The question of reform(s), emancipation and peripheralization will be prioritised.
We are interested in exploring questions of heterogeneity and particularity, convergence and disjuncture, difference and hierarchy, as well as temporality within these two spaces.
The Club will have three meetings in 2021, once in every two months. Each session will have a general topic while the discussion will be organized around one particular book, referencing to relevant readings will be strongly encouraged. A session will be an hour long. Anyone is welcome to join!
I Introducing the Posts-: Post-socialism meets Post-colonialism
Book: Mark R. Beissinger & Crawford Young. 2002. Beyond State Crisis: Post-Colonial Africa and Post-Colonial Eurasia in Comparative Perspective. Woodrow Wilson Canter Press.
II The Non-Aligned Movement at 60: lessons learned and the way forward
Book: Vijay Prashad. 2007. The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World. The New Press.
III The never-ending transition: position of the ‘eternal peripheries’ in the neoliberal global order
Book: William I. Robinson. 2014. Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Humanity. Cambridge University Press.
Members of the Reading Club:
Dr. Ivor Chipkin (GAPP)
Prof. Radmila Nakarada (University of Belgrade)
Prof. Firoz Khan (Stellenbosch University)
Prof. Paul Stubbs (The Institute of Economics, Zagreb)
Facilitator: Dr. Jelena Vidojević (GAPP)
Book: Mark R. Beissinger & Crawford Young. 2002. Beyond State Crisis: Post-Colonial Africa and Post-Colonial Eurasia in Comparative Perspective. Woodrow Wilson Canter Press.