After the Revolution

Zusatztext "Greenberg situates her insightful and well-written ethnography in the aftermath of Miloevic's toppling....By showing how neoliberal practices offered an appealing set of solutions to the social constraints in which activists found themselves, Greenberg's book overcomes one of the most common shortcomings of critical studies of neoliberalism....This nuanced attention to the local dynamics of neoliberal reform does not mean that After the Revolution is primarily of interest only to those seeking to understand the former Yugoslavia....Greenberg is able to defamiliarize the ways that democratic standing, representativeness, expertise, procedure, and political disinterest are socially produced and deployed, therefore opening them to fresh analysis and theorization." Informationen zum Autor Jessica Greenberg is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Klappentext Jessica Greenberg is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Zusammenfassung What happens to student activism once mass protests have disappeared from view! and youth no longer embody the political frustrations and hopes of a nation? After the Revolution chronicles the lives of student activists as they confront the possibilities and disappointments of democracy in the shadow of the recent revolution in Serbia. Greenberg's narrative highlights the stories of young student activists as they seek to define their role and articulate a new form of legitimate political activity! post-socialism. When student activists in Serbia helped topple dictator Slobodan Milosevic on October 5! 2000! they unexpectedly found that the post-revolutionary period brought even greater problems. How do you actually live and practice democracy in the wake of war and the shadow of a recent revolution? How do young Serbians attempt to translate the energy and excitement generated by wide scale mobilization into the slow work of building democratic institutions? Greenberg navigates through the ranks of student organizations as they transition their activism from the streets back into the halls of the university. In exploring the everyday practices of student activists-their triumphs and frustrations- After the Revolution argues that disappointment is not a failure of democracy but a fundamental feature of how people live and practice it. This fascinating book develops a critical vocabulary for the social life of disappointment with the aim of helping citizens! scholars! and policymakers worldwide escape the trap of framing new democracies as doomed to failure. ...

Autorentext
Jessica Greenberg is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Zusammenfassung

What happens to student activism once mass protests have disappeared from view, and youth no longer embody the political frustrations and hopes of a nation? After the Revolution chronicles the lives of student activists as they confront the possibilities and disappointments of democracy in the shadow of the recent revolution in Serbia. Greenberg's narrative highlights the stories of young student activists as they seek to define their role and articulate a new form of legitimate political activity, post-socialism.

When student activists in Serbia helped topple dictator Slobodan Milosevic on October 5, 2000, they unexpectedly found that the post-revolutionary period brought even greater problems. How do you actually live and practice democracy in the wake of war and the shadow of a recent revolution? How do young Serbians attempt to translate the energy and excitement generated by wide scale mobilization into the slow work of building democratic institutions? Greenberg navigates through the ranks of student organizations as they transition their activism from the streets back into the halls of the university. In exploring the everyday practices of student activiststheir triumphs and frustrationsAfter the Revolution argues that disappointment is not a failure of democracy but a fundamental feature of how people live and practice it. This fascinating book develops a critical vocabulary for the social life of disappointment with the aim of helping citizens, scholars, and policymakers worldwide escape the trap of framing new democracies as doomed to failure.

Inhalt
Introduction

1. Against the Future: Youth and the Politics of Disappointment in Serbia
2. Embodying Citizenship: The Changing Politics of Protest
3. Revolution and Reform: Citizenship and the Contradictions of Neoliberal University Reform
4. The Ethics of Knowledge: Expertise, Branding, and (In)visibility as Forms of Democratic Representation
5. "We Have to Be Politicians": Proceduralism and the Depoliticization of Politics
   Conclusion: Democracy and Revolution After the Cold War