Sociologie Românească (Romanian Sociology), Vol. XIV, no. 1-2/2017, pp. 85-111.
Postcomunismul românesc. O posibilă tipologie
Romanian Postcommunism. A Possible Typology
Emanuel Copilaş
Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara, Bd. Vasile Pârvan, nr. 4, Timișoara. E-mail: Această adresă de email este protejată contra spambots. Trebuie să activați JavaScript pentru a o vedea..
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Emanuel Copilaş. Postcomunismul românesc. O posibilă tipologie. Sociologie Românească XV(1-2):85-111, 2017. BibTeX
@article{, author = "Copilaş, Emanuel", title = "Postcomunismul românesc. O posibilă tipologie", journal = "Sociologie Românească", volume = "XV", number = "1-2", pages = "85-111", abstract = "After three decades since the 1989 revolution, is postcommunism still a relevant concept for understanding Romania's profound transformations after the fall of Ceauşescu's national-communist regime? For a number of reasons detailed in the introductive section, I aim to offer a positive answer to this question: postcommunism is still a valid theoretical tool in apprehending this new stage of Romania's development, although its relevance is not so powerful as it was back in the 1990s. This study tries to differentiate several major directions of analysis regarding Romanian postcommunism. The typology it poposes is by far not a complete one, not even a very complex one; it just tries to identify, grosso modo, what I consider to be the main dimensions of this complex social phenomenon. Of course, the debate can go on, and it is highly recommendable to go on, both by expanding and/or contesting the present typology. After I analyze the ideological, political, economical, social and cultural components of Romanian postcommunism, the idea I try to bring forward is that of the irreducible particularity of this ideology, the more prolific as its discursive efforts to present itself as the 'end of history', common sense, reality or non-ideological universalism - were more intense.", keywords = "ideology; politics; economics; society; culture", year = 2017 }
Abstract: After three decades since the 1989 revolution, is postcommunism still a relevant concept for understanding Romania's profound transformations after the fall of Ceauşescu's national-communist regime? For a number of reasons detailed in the introductive section, I aim to offer a positive answer to this question: postcommunism is still a valid theoretical tool in apprehending this new stage of Romania's development, although its relevance is not so powerful as it was back in the 1990s. This study tries to differentiate several major directions of analysis regarding Romanian postcommunism. The typology it poposes is by far not a complete one, not even a very complex one; it just tries to identify, grosso modo, what I consider to be the main dimensions of this complex social phenomenon. Of course, the debate can go on, and it is highly recommendable to go on, both by expanding and/or contesting the present typology. After I analyze the ideological, political, economical, social and cultural components of Romanian postcommunism, the idea I try to bring forward is that of the irreducible particularity of this ideology, the more prolific as its discursive efforts to present itself as the 'end of history', common sense, reality or non-ideological universalism - were more intense.
Keywords: ideology; politics; economics; society; culture.
Cuvinte-cheie: ideologie; politică; economie; societate; cultură.