23 janvier 2013
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Katherine Verdery, « 10. Privatization as Transforming Persons », Central European University Press, ID : 10670/1.c8r5pp
“Privatization is not simply a change in ownership;it is a revolution in ways of thinking, acting, and governing.” In his brilliant essay “The Leninist Extinction”, Ken Jowitt defines 1989 as a “genesis” moment to be marked by creating, naming, and bounding in new ways. As if to confirm his insight, many western policy-makers and academic advisors labeled this the moment of the “big bang”, of original creation, before which all was chaos. They and their counterparts in the former Soviet bloc ...