JMintheUS: Capitalist Transformations in East Central Europe since the Great Recession: What Do We Know? What Have We Missed?

Activity Type: 
Lecture Series / Brown Bag
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Presenter: 
Dorothee Bohle
Date: 
Tuesday, March 30, 2021 - 11:00
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Location: 
Zoom
Contact Person: 
Besnik Pula
Contact Email: 
bpula@vt.edu

On March 30, 2021, Dorothee Bohle will join us to discuss "Capitalist Transformations in East Central Europe Since the Great Recession: What do We Know? What Have We Missed?"

This presentation asks three related questions:

If neoliberalism has implied the retreat of the state from economic roles, does the recent return of the state in the economy herald the end of neoliberalism?
Is there a causal rather than incidental relationship between transforming capitalism and the turn to authoritarian politics?
How do we make sense of right-wing governments' double attack on liberalism as a force of eocnomic dispossession, and simultaneously, as an advocate of political emancipation of women, ethnic and sexual minorities, and migrants?

Bohle is Professor and Chair in Social and Political Change in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute, Florence.

Learn More and Register Here https://virginiatech.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_04FfAuMoQkKAdiMyoh5G6w

UCIS Unit: 
European Studies Center
Non-University Sponsors: 
Virginia Tech Center for European Union
Is Event Already in University Calendar?: 
No