scholarly journals (Re)thinking Postsocialism: Interview with Neda Atanasoski and Kalindi Vora

2019 ◽  
pp. 91-111
Author(s):  
Lesia Pagulich ◽  
Tatsiana Shchurko
Keyword(s):  
Social Welfare ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Third World ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Political Life ◽  
The Third ◽  
Colonial Form ◽  
The Third World ◽  
National Economies ◽  
The Impact

Neda Atanasoski and Kalindi Vora: We realized that the socialist legacies of each region connected them, as well as to other global sites. Postcolonial studies offered tools for understanding Soviet imperialism, yet came from regions with very different racialized, gendered, and sexualized dynamics of power that accompanied the European colonial form of economic domination. At the same time, postsocialist studies was actively excavating and engaging the impact of socialism on cultural and political life in Eastern Europe in a way that did not seem to gain traction as a way to understand the socialist commitments of newly independent governments in the third world who were non-aligned but initiated social welfare and redistribution policies to protect newly launched national economies, policies that continue in some places until the present.

Eastern Europe and the Third World: East vs. South

1981 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 470
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Kridl Valkenier ◽  
Michael Radu
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Third World ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Third World

scholarly journals Postmoderne epistemologie en postkoloniale hermeneutiek

2004 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andries G. Van Aarde
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Third World ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Biblical Studies ◽  
The Third ◽  
Biblical Texts ◽  
The Third World

Postmodern epistemology and postcolonial hermeneuticsPostcolonial hermeneutics is concerned with linguistic, cultural and geographical transfer. Within the framework of biblical studies it explores strategies of interpreting texts from the situation of previously colonised people who are accommodated in a new liberated context, but find themselves both included and excluded. Biblical texts are historically considered to be both the products of people who were subjected to the exploitation of Middle-Eastern and Graeco-Roman super powers and interpreted today in the third world by people who also were subjects of modern colonial powers. Postcolonial studies represent a postmodern epistemology which implies a deconstructive approach to hermeneutics. The article consists of five “preludes”, introducing postmodern epistemology, postcolonial hermeneutics, postcolonial biblical studies, and unlocking potential biblical research in South Africa.

Comparing Régime Performance in Africa: the Limitations of Cross-National Aggregate Analysis

1980 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Ravenhill
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Corporate Identity ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Positive Contribution ◽  
Institutional Performance ◽  
Officer Corps ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Third World ◽  
The Impact

The continuing prominence of coups d'état in the political life of the Third World has sustained interest in the question of whether, and in what circumstances, the armed forces are capable of making a positive contribution to modernisation. During the 1960s, a number of scholars began to take a favourable view of the military's modernising potential based on ideal-typical conceptions of armed-force organisations which, in Henry Bienen's felicitous phrase, were ‘unencumbered by empirical detail’.1 A second dimension of support for the positive image was perceived in the attitudes and class background of the officer corps.2 Critics of this viewpoint questioned the accuracy of these characterisations given the impact that transfer to a different socio-economic and political context has on institutional performance. Case-studies of Third-World militaries found that many lacked a single corporate identity, suffering from factionalism along cleavages of age, ethnicity, and regionalism; organisational cohesion was undermined by a proliferation of patron-client relationships.3 The motives for staging coups also were questioned, the military being perceived as particularly well-equipped to defend and pursue its corporate interests.1

scholarly journals GLOBAL GOVERNANCE IN ALL ITS DISCRETE FORMS: THE GAME, FIFA, AND THE THIRD WORLD

1969 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 199-228
Author(s):  
Basil Ugochukwu
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Third World ◽  
International Organization ◽  
The Third ◽  
Legal Implications ◽  
The Third World ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Rule Making

This paper uses the governance praxis of the Federation of International Football Associations [FIFA] to illustrate the impact of several intensive, discrete, and rarely-studied global governance actors whose internal processes and procedures mirror the core concerns of Third World Approaches to International Law [TWAIL] scholars regarding the legitimation of a hegemonic category and the marginalization of Third World and subaltern interests. It is argued that FIFA has become an important international organization and global governance actor whose transnational rule-making characteristics should be studied in light of the incipient migration from “international law” to “global governance”.      It will be shown that not only are FIFA’s rules impinging on sovereign imagination but that the tendencies of inequality, unfairness and domination afflicting the practices of traditional or state-centric international organizations are as prevalent in the procedures of such less-studied global governance actors regardless that their rule-making activities exert significant impact on governments, especially those in Africa and other parts of the Third World. More significantly, the essay looks at possible domestic political and socio-legal implications of discrete globalization of the kind exemplified by FIFA on Africa and the Third World and how important it is to integrate this concern into TWAIL scholarship going forward.

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