The Force of Custom presents a finely textured ethnographic study that sheds new light on
the legal and moral ordering of everyday life in northwestern Kyrgyzstan. Through her …

I am immensely grateful to Colin Cremin. Never overbearing, always critically engaged and
pushing me when I needed to be pushed. The work undertaken in these pages was possible …

After nearly a decade of the international financial crisis and its repercussions, what is the
state of the European radical Left? To what degree has the Great Recession fundamentally …

This article investigates a neglected issue of the influence of systemic transformation in
Central and Eastern Europe on the (sub) field of social sciences and more broadly on local …

This chapter outlines the theoretical context of the book. This includes selected elements of
Pierre Bourdieu's sociology, led by the concepts of power field and homology, which I use to …

With the rise of Syriza in Greece and Podemos in Spain, the name of Ernesto Laclau was
highlighted as an influence on the ideological line of these movements. This paper aims to …

The subject of this study is a theoretical analysis of postsocialist and postcolonial countries
seen from the perspective of their current situation and expected future development. The …

In our contemporary period of crisis and flux, the ability to envisage and struggle for better
modes of social being—ie utopianism—has seemingly never been more urgent, or more …

The paper starts noticing that Bauman's thought, as well as being a “challenge” for the
interpreter, can also be seen as a" compass"(Davis 2011) for sociology, in order to recover …

The years after the fall of the USSR were times of great optimism for proponents of
constitutional democracy, of a Third Way between market and welfare state, and of a politics …