Beyond Neoliberalism: Social Analysis after 1989

Contents -- Chapter 1: Beyond Neoliberalism? Social Analysis after 1989 -- Note -- References -- Part I: Epistemic and Conceptual Shifts in the Wake of 1989 -- Chapter 2: De-theorizing in Order to Re-theorize Emergent Alignments: A Rumination -- Introduction -- The Need to Develop New Instruments for Analysis -- A Quick Remapping of the Operational Space of Economic Power -- Beyond the Rich: Predatory Formations -- New Geographies of Centrality and Marginality -- Conclusions: Going Back to Ground Level -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: A Triple Movement? Parsing the Politics of Crisis after Polanyi -- A Failure of Leadership? -- Labor and Financialization -- A Crisis of Framing? -- Emancipation: The Missing Third -- Political Ambivalence -- Rethinking the Politics of Crisis -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: A Critique of Transition Studies on Postsocialism, or How to Rethink and Reorient 1989? The Case of (Post)Socialist (Post)Yugoslavia -- Between the Triumph of 1989 and the Catastrophe of 1991 -- Postsocialist Transitology: Between Anticommunism and the Dream of Consolidated Democracy -- Post-Marxism as a Theoretical Symptom -- Specific Features of the Post-Yugoslav Transition: 1991 as the Start of the Catastrophe -- In Defense of Different Concept of Transition: A Return to the Althusserian Concept of the Aleatory and Contingent Processes of History -- Testing Tendential Thinking: "The Post-Socialism in Socialism" -- Conclusion: Withering Away of the Prefix "Post-"? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5: A Fractured Globe: Anthropology and Narration after 1989 -- Introduction -- Cold War Anthropology and Beyond -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: Postcolonial Criticism after 1989: A Conversation with Gal Kirn and Marian Burchardt -- Part II: New Narratives of Capitalism: Interrogating Knowledge Production and Ethnography