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Prompted by the 25th anniversary of the Soviet collapse, this volume reflects on revolutions and transformations around the collapse of the Soviet Bloc, the political transformations after 9/11, the important changes following the global economic crisis, and the revolutionary transformations of India and China. The authors stress that the United States' military actions after the 9/11 terrorist attacks have had a major transformative impact on the global arena. More recently, the economic crisis that began in 2007/8 caused a series of breakdowns and provoked demands for social and political transformation, so far unfulfilled. The repercussions of the Arab Spring and transformations linked to the rise of BRICS are altering the patterns of international and global relations. All these processes have unfolded within the framework of global capitalism, whose reproduction on an expanding scale involved multiple economic, political ecological and civilizational transformations.

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Author:   Johann P. Arnason (Professor Emeritus of Sociology, La Trobe University) ,  Marek Hrubec (Director of the Centre of Global Studies in the Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
Weight:   0.325kg
ISBN:  

9781474432573

ISBN 10:   1474432573
Pages:   212
Publication Date:   22 February 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction A Trialogue on Revolution and Transformation Vladimíra Dvorakova, Marek Hrubec, Jan Keller Revolutions, Transformations, Civilizations: Prolegomena to a Paradigm ReorientationJohann P. Arnason The Transformation of Capitalism and the Limits of DemocracyJerry Harris From Civilisational Crisis to Revolutionary Transformation?Oleg Suša Environmental Crisis and Political RevolutionsRichard Sťahel Communists and Social Democrats in the Hungarian Soviet RepublicGábor Gángó Can Political Participation Become Dangerous for Democracy? Participatory Experiences in Brazil and the Reactions Against ThemEmil A. Sobottka Hidden Revolutionary Processes in 1990s India?Jiří Krejčík Matching Reforms of Political and Economic Systems of ChinaWei Xiaoping Notes on ContributorsIndex

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Johann P. Arnason is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at La Trobe University, Melbourne, and Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Human Studies at Charles University, Prague. He taught sociology in Heidelberg and Bielefeld from 1972 to 1975, and at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, from 1975 to 2003. He has been a visiting professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, and at the University of Leipzig, and a research fellow of the Alexander v. Humboldt-Stiftung, the Swedish Institute of Advanced Studies, the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut (Essen), the Lichtenberg-Kolleg in Göttingen and the Max-Weber-Kolleg in Erfurt. His research interests centre on social theory and historical sociology, with particular emphasis on the comparative analysis of civilizations. Marek Hrubec, philosopher and social and political theorist, is Director of the Centre of Global Studies in the Institute of Philosophy at the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. He also teaches at Charles University in Prague. He focuses on justice, development, and social and political changes in the macro-regional and global contexts. His latest work is Justice and Recognition which he co-edited with N. De Oliveira, E. Sobottka and G. Saavedra (2015).

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