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Outside, Inside, In Between: Rethinking the Socialist Subject
Outside, Inside, In Between: Rethinking the Socialist Subject

Author(s): Ina Dimitrova
Subject(s): History, Social Sciences, Sociology, Special Historiographies:, Health and medicine and law, Cold-War History
Published by: БАЛКАНИСТИЧЕН ФОРУМ - МЕЖДУНАРОДЕН УНИВЕРСИТЕТСКИ СЕМИНАР ЗА ПРОУЧВАНИЯ И СПЕЦИАЛИЗАЦИИ
Keywords: socialist modernity; environment; subject formation; governmentality; 4E cognition

Summary/Abstract: This review reads the special issue through the problem of the relationship between human beings and their environments. It proposes a three-part typology distin-guishing between environments that shape behaviour from the outside, environments that become internalised through habit and discipline, and environments that are constitutive of cognition itself. By tracing these overlapping modes of subject formation, the essay highlights the broader conceptual contribution of the special issue to debates on socialist modernity, subjectivity, and the making of persons.

  • Issue Year: 2/2026
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 276-281
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: English
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