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Review of Artemy Magun, Negative Revolution: Modern Political Subject and Its Fate after the Cold War (Bloomsbury, 2013)
Slavic and East European Journal. 2017. Vol. 61. No. 2. P. 372–373.
Platt J.
Review of Artemy Magun's Negative Revolution.
Пученков А. С., Калининград: Издательство Балтийского федерального университета им. И. Канта, 2024.
This book consists of two different parts. The first is a revised, previously published study by A. S. Puchenkov, Gorbachev: the Path of the Reformer. The second part contains memoirs and other materials about Mikhail Gorbachev, written by his supporters, negotiating partners, and political opponents. A significant part of these materials contained in the IV ...
Added: February 27, 2026
Ghosh S. C., Вестник Томского государственного университета. Философия. Социология. Политология (Российская Федерация) 2025 No. 84 P. 205–218
The 2015 Bangladesh student protests against a proposed value-added tax (VAT) on private university tuition are conventionally framed in public imagery as a material struggle against an economic policy threatening educational access. This article reinterprets the movement through the New Social Movement (NSM) theoretical framework, which emphasises identity formation, post-material values, and cultural contestation over ...
Added: September 2, 2025
Shakarian P. A., Armenian Forum On-Line 2013
The environmental movement in Soviet Armenia served as a catalyst for the rise of the Armenian national movement during glasnost. Despite extensive studies of the collapse of Soviet power in Armenia, little research has looked at this movement as a major factor in Armenian civic and national expression. ...
Added: November 1, 2022
Baysha O., NY: Routledge, 2022.
This book explores the reasons behind the unexpected rise to power of Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, a former comedian with no political background, and offers an in-depth analysis of the populist messages he delivered to the Ukrainian people via his TV show.
Taking a discourse analysis approach, the author draws on two main arguments of critical scholarship: ...
Added: January 11, 2022
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
The key concepts of the book are media, class, poverty, and shaming. The contributors to this book examine how certain social relations and their cultural meanings in the media, namely class and poverty, are transformed into factual or moral attributes of people and situations. Class and poverty are not understood as certain things and actions, ...
Added: July 12, 2021
Baysha O., Academia Letters, США 2021 No. 2 P. 1–5
Many critical thinkers agree that it is the inequalities and injustices of the global neoliberalorder which have brought about “the populist explosion” (Butler, 2016; Harvey, 2018; Judis,2016; Mouffe, 2016; Taguieff, 2016; Žižek, 2018).1All the latest populist developments2–from the left-wing populism in Greece, Spain, or Italy to the right-wing populism in France,Austria, or Finland – are ...
Added: April 22, 2021
Mylonas Y., , in: The “Greek Crisis” in Europe: Race, Class and Politics.: Leiden: Brill, 2019. Ch. 6 P. 182–212.
Chapters 4 and 5 presented the cultural and moral construction of the Greek crisis in the European mainstream media. Both dimensions are interrelated and stem from authoritative political and economic institutions and estab-lishments. The technocratic expertise of neoliberal economists in particular, outlines the economic crisis in a seemingly depoliticised manner. Acts of de-politicisation though are ...
Added: April 13, 2021
Mylonas Y., Noutsou M., Nordicom Review 2021 Vol. 42 No. 3 P. 56–70
This article focuses on the ways in which the Danish liberal mainstream press covered events related to the so-called Greek crisis. In particular, we examine the coverage of the different Greek national elections that took place during the Greek crisis years (2010–2019) by Jyllands-Posten (JP), a popular Danish daily newspaper. Qualitative content analysis is deployed ...
Added: April 13, 2021
Mylonas Y., , in: The “Greek Crisis” in Europe: Race, Class and Politics.: Leiden: Brill, 2019. Ch. 1 P. 1–47.
As is generally known, the latest major economic crisis of global proportions started in the usa with the credit crunch of 2007–8. Ten years later, in 2018, critics note that the crisis is far from fully resolved, with a new – and potential-ly more serious – one pending (Roos, 2018b). Along with the economic crisis, ...
Added: March 16, 2021
Mylonas Y., Stasis 2020 Vol. 10 No. 2 P. 181–208
This article focuses on New Democracy (ND), Greece’s main
conservative party, and its return to power in 2019. The study
enquires into ND’s hegemonic strategy and governing practice.
ND’s hegemonic strategy is grounded in both neoliberal and Far
Right premises. This enabled ND to create a hegemonic block that
ranges from centrist liberals to far-rightists, while advancing an
anti-leftist ideological project, ...
Added: March 4, 2021
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
The volume will examine the influence of professional service firms in public policy-making from a global perspective. Over the past three decades, the ‘Big Four’ firms (KPMG, Deloitte, PwC, EY) alongside other transnational consulting firms have aggressively targeted the public sector with the aim of expanding their market in auditing, advisory and taxation services. They ...
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Roy Chowdhury A., Sociology 2021 Vol. 55 No. 2 P. 438–445
A review essay of 4000 words. ...
Added: November 19, 2020
Balayan A. A., Томин Л. В., Информационное общество 2020 № 5 С. 80–88
The paper focuses on the transformation of the advertising market under the influence of platform companies, using the US example, to show the mechanism of digital disruption in print media business model. The development of digital infrastructure has allowed platform companies to collect and monetize data, deliver personalized ads to users throughout the internet. A ...
Added: October 28, 2020
Baysha O., Cadernos de Linguagem e Sociedade - Papers on Language and Society 2020 Vol. 21 No. 1 P. 21–41
Many CDA scholars assume there is an inherent opposition between democratization with its advances toward social justice and neoliberal marketization with its array of negative consequences. Analyzing the discourse of democratization in the context of contemporary Ukraine, this paper argues that the issue is more complicated. Neoliberal marketization can go hand-in-hand with the discourse of ...
Added: August 4, 2020
Balayan A. A., Tomin L. V., , in: 2020 IEEE Communication Strategies in Digital Society Seminar (ComSDS).: St. Petersburg: Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University “LETI”, 2020. P. 133–136.
In the period after the global financial crisis of 2008, a new economic model have emerged - “platform capitalism”. Platform companies attracted huge ammount of money, allowing for a while to solve the problem of investment and supporting the financial market. The basis of this economic model is network effects produced by the integrated digital infrastructure, which ...
Added: June 29, 2020
Abramov R., ИНТЕРакция. ИНТЕРвью. ИНТЕРпретация 2019 Т. 11 № 18 С. 80–103
The period of the 1990s is relatively poorly studied and is in a situation of media and ideological stereotypes. This article is devoted to return the discourse of the “nineties” in the analytical channel. It is devoted to the analysis of biographical trajectories and the worldview of “teenagers of perestroika”, those who were 14–16 years ...
Added: October 19, 2019
Mylonas Y., Kompatsiaris P., Communications. Media. Design 2019 Vol. 4 No. 1 P. 32–61
Since the early years of the debt crisis in 2010, a large part of liberal intellectuals and public commentators in Greece has argued for an interpretative framework with the notion of ‘national identity’ as the root of all troubles. Their narrative presents the crisis as an opportunity for Greeks to rediscover themselves and acquire a ...
Added: October 1, 2019
Pavlov A., Логос 2019 Т. 29 № 2 С. 1–24
The article examines a problem besetting social theory and theory of culture: the problem of using postmodernism as a language for describing the 21st century. The author resorts to the umbrella term “post-postmodernism” to indicate the more complex theories that focus mainly on the analysis of the latest forms of capitalism rather than the concepts ...
Added: August 12, 2019
Minina E., / NRU Higher School of Economics. Series EDU "Education". 2019.
This paper investigates the logics of teachers’ discursive resistance to the Unified State Examinations (USE) almost two decades after its introduction into the Russian education system. By drawing upon NVivo-aided Discourse analysis of online teacher discussions, interview and focus group data, the analysis critically examines the pedagogical underpinnings of USE vis-à-vis the traditional assessment system ...
Added: July 2, 2019
Izotov V., Successfull Business (Cyprus) 2019 № 33 С. 56–60
О будущем экономическом кризисе мы слышим со всех сторон. Но какой именно кризис, кто «дизайнеры», в чём его причины и как от него защищаться? Что впереди: конец американского господства, торговые войны, дальнейший рост популизма, геоэкономические землетрясения, смещающие старые пласты и открывающие дорогу новым центрам силы? ...
Added: April 25, 2019
Mylonas Y., Journal of Political Ideologies 2018 Vol. 23 No. 2 P. 223–240
This article analyses Germany’s Der Spiegel weekly journal, and its
discursive constructions of the oppositional voices against the socalled
structural reforms imposed on Greece in the context of the
Eurozone crisis. The analysis is focused on relevant articles published
by Der Spiegel between late 2009 and early 2015, during important,
crisis-related socio-political events. Drawing on discourse theory and
critical discourse analysis, ...
Added: April 12, 2019
Muravyeva M. G., Berlin: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, 2018.
Russia has been experiencing the results of an acute economic crisis since 2012. However, the government has not been explicit in its declarations regarding austerity policies. On the contrary, it tends to represent its measures as "normal" and generally justifies cuts to public expenditure and reduced spending as part of a new understanding of the ...
Added: November 29, 2018