Miscommunicating Social Change: Lessons from Russia and Ukraine

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Miscommunicating Social Change
Miscommunicating Social Change: Lessons from Russia and Ukraine
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Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Theoretical Foundations
	Chapter 1
	Democratic Globalization or Global Coloniality?
		The Uniprogressive Discourse of Soviet Perestroika
		The Uniprogressive Discourse of the Movement for Fair Elections in Russia
		The Uniprogressive Discourse of the Euromaidan
		The Uniprogressive Discourse of an Anti-Corruption Movement in Russia
		Totalitarianism in the Name of Democracy and Progress
		Notes
	Chapter 2
	The Genealogy of the Uniprogressive Imaginary
		Breaking the Link Between Uniprogressivism and Democratic Theorizing
		Note
	Chapter 3
	Discourse Theory by Laclau and Mouffe and Its Further Elaborations
		Nico Carpentier’s Discursive-Material Knot
The Uniprogressive Discourse of Social Movements in Russia
	Chapter 4
	“They Were Very Far Removed from the People . . .”
		2004–2005: The Anti-Monetarization Uprising
		Soviet Nostalgia
		2011–2013: Russia without Putin!
		2017: New Protests, Old Problems
		Notes
	Chapter 5
	White Ribbons and the Echo in the Dark
		“Us” vs. “Them”: Echo’s Framing of Putin Supporters
		Notes
	Chapter 6
	The New Protest Generation
		Putin’s Russia and Its Barbarians
		The “Non-Whipped Generation” and the West
		Notes
	Chapter 7
	Antagonism without Agonism
		Was There Really Nothing Positive about “Sovok”?
		Note
The Uniprogressive Discourse of the Euromaidan
	Chapter 8
	Shadows of the Past
		Ukraine’s Difficult Totality
		Donbas Uprising
		Notes
	Chapter 9
	The Uniprogressive Imagination of the Euromaidan
		A European Dream
		The Euromaidan’s Outside
		We Are “The People”
		Notes
	Chapter 10
	The Antagonisms of the Euromaidan
		“Not All of Them Are Here for Money”
		Notes
	Chapter 11
	The Discursive-Material Knot of the Euromaidan
		The Lack of Vision
		Provocateurs vs. Activists
		Euromaidan Radicals
		The Spiral of Animosity
		The Wounds of the Anti-Maidan
		The Materiality of Destruction
		The Agency of the Anti-Maidan
		Note
	Chapter 12
	In the Name of National Unity
		From “Anti-Maidan” to “Separatism”
		From “Separatism” to “Terrorism”
		Notes
Conclusions
	Chapter 13
	Global Coloniality Instead of Democratic Globalization
		Alternative Articulations
		Global Democratization
	Epilogue
		Note
Bibliography
Index
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