After the Revolution
eBook - ePub

After the Revolution

Youth, Democracy, and the Politics of Disappointment in Serbia

  1. 248 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

After the Revolution

Youth, Democracy, and the Politics of Disappointment in Serbia

About this book

What happens to student activism once mass protests have disappeared from view, and youth no longer embody the political frustrations and hopes of a nation? After the Revolution chronicles the lives of student activists as they confront the possibilities and disappointments of democracy in the shadow of the recent revolution in Serbia. Greenberg's narrative highlights the stories of young student activists as they seek to define their role and articulate a new form of legitimate political activity, post-socialism.

When student activists in Serbia helped topple dictator Slobodan Milosevic on October 5, 2000, they unexpectedly found that the post-revolutionary period brought even greater problems. How do you actually live and practice democracy in the wake of war and the shadow of a recent revolution? How do young Serbians attempt to translate the energy and excitement generated by wide scale mobilization into the slow work of building democratic institutions? Greenberg navigates through the ranks of student organizations as they transition their activism from the streets back into the halls of the university. In exploring the everyday practices of student activistsā€”their triumphs and frustrationsā€”After the Revolution argues that disappointment is not a failure of democracy but a fundamental feature of how people live and practice it. This fascinating book develops a critical vocabulary for the social life of disappointment with the aim of helping citizens, scholars, and policymakers worldwide escape the trap of framing new democracies as doomed to failure.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. Title Page
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction
  7. 1. Against the Future: Youth and the Politics of Disappointment in Serbia
  8. 2. Embodying Citizenship: The Changing Politics of Protest
  9. 3. Revolution and Reform: Citizenship and the Contradictions of Neoliberal University Reform
  10. 4. The Ethics of Knowledge: Expertise, Branding, and (In)visibility as Forms of Democratic Representation
  11. 5. ā€œWe Have to Be Politiciansā€: Proceduralism and the Depoliticization of Politics
  12. Conclusion: Democracy and Revolution After the Cold War
  13. Reference Matter