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History after the end: post-socialist difference in a (post)modern world

Hörschelmann, K.

Authors

K. Hörschelmann



Abstract

This paper makes an intervention in the debates on postmodernism as dominant social and cultural order of the present from the perspective of post-socialist transformation. Grounded in an analysis of theoretical discourses and of qualitative interviews, it highlights the hierarchical time/space constructions and universalizing tendencies inherent in many proclamations of the postmodern epoch and contests the uncritical acceptance of the 'end of history' metanarrative. Post-socialist transformation is shown to be a complex process that fits uneasily into pre-given categories and disrupts an ordering logic that divides between a western, postmodern 'us' and 'the rest' of the world. My argument is formulated on the basis of research on the transformative processes in former east Germany.

Citation

Hörschelmann, K. (2002). History after the end: post-socialist difference in a (post)modern world. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 27(1), 52-66. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-5661.00041

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date Mar 1, 2002
Deposit Date Nov 8, 2006
Journal Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
Print ISSN 0020-2754
Electronic ISSN 1475-5661
Publisher Wiley
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 27
Issue 1
Pages 52-66
DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-5661.00041

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