"Democracies" in Transition: Faith, Resistance, and Popular Reason in the New Europe

Session Submission Type: Panel Discussion

Abstract

This panel explores the relationships among collective identity construction, political resistance, and politically consequential faiths (neo-liberalism, ethnic nationalism, religious fundamentalism, socialism) in the former communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Drawing upon a wide range of public addresses, and in light of contemporary political theories related to globalization, identity and resistance, the panel explores various rhetorical strategies for political mobilization in "democracies in transition."

Sub Unit

• Public Address Division

Chair

• David Cratis Williams, Florida Atlantic Univ

Respondent

• David Cratis Williams, Florida Atlantic Univ

Session Organizer

• M Lane Bruner, Georgia State University