aaus-list @ ukrainianstudies.org -- [aaus-list] Call for Plotki Journal June 2007 Online Issue onTransit/ion!

[svyetlov <svyetlov@googlemail.com>]

Dear colleagues,
do you think you can contribute in the form of (in)formal article(s) or 
photos?
Many thanks
Oleksandr Svyetlov
Svyetlov@gmail.com

Call for Plotki Journal June 2007 Online Issue on

Transit/ion!

(accounting for the past, analysing the present, envisaging the future)


Invitation for contributions

The call is open to all original theoretical, empirical, textual, visual, 
photographic, academic, journalistic and artistic contributions from social 
disciplines such as transitology, political science, sociology, 
international relations, history, art, journalism and other which address 
the issues described below. Encouraged are of course themes referring to 
CSEE and fSU region with comparative and analytical-descriptive approaches 
dealing with both state and process of Transit/ion.

Clarification of concepts:

Transition - movement, passage, or change from one position, state, stage, 
subject, concept, etc., to another. Although in present context it applies 
specifically to the post-Soviet (or what is called in the West 
post-Communist) transformation on societal, political, institutional, etc. 
levels (democratization, liberalisation, pri(h)vatisation, etc) in 
Central/South/Eastern Europe (CSEE,) and the rest of former Soviet Union 
(fSU).

Transit - the act or fact of passing across or through; passage from one 
place to another, conveyance or transportation from one place to another, as 
of persons or goods, also,
a transition or change. Transit is a more general term applying also to 
physical movement, such as migration.

Transitology - an academic discipline studing the process of change from one 
political regime to another, mainly from authoritarian to democratic in the 
context of CSEE and fSU.

In short, Transit/ion is political, social, economic, moral, (in)visible, 
(im)material change of shape or form, movement in space or time, which also 
includes temporal and special antagonism, contradiction, comparison and 
interplay of (f)actors.

Keywords:

Empire - nation state / Totalitarianism - democracy / Planned economy - free 
market / The shifting role of state: changing and creating of institutions / 
Shift of political preferences and opinions of the electorate and elite / 
Elections - policies

EU as a change-promoting agent / Which way and to what extent do East and 
West change? / Where is Europe going / Flow(s) of goods, people(s), ideas 
within Europe and Eurasia

Order - anarchy: the nature of stability / Progress - regress / Limits and 
pace of change / State and process: means and ends

Wealth - poverty / Prosperity - decay / Elite - the rest / Mobility within 
social strata: attainability of classical capitalism dreams

Local - global - glocal / Religion - atheism  / Immateriality - materiality 
/ Old - new / Life - death / Process of acquiring or losing experience or 
pertinence

Preliminary deadline is 27 April 2007. Please send your contributions of 
max. 2.500 words in English for reviewing to: Oleksandr Svyetlov 
Svyetlov@gmail.com  PLOTKI WEBSITE: www.plotki.net