ABSTRACT
This chapter examines diverse threads and layers of the discussion on the post-/ decolonial through the lens of the Eastern European borderlands. It argues that the post-/decolonial framework is indeed timely in that it enables a theoretization that can narrow the gap—so divisive after 1989—between cultural analysis and social theory. Third-Worldism was a no less important nourishing ground for the women’s movement and feminist academia. In feminist thought, the early formulation of analytical concepts often took place by analogy to class, but also to race and colonialism. The flowering of research since the 1980s has yielded a broad body of knowledge about the co-constitutive relationships between the colonizing and the colonized worlds. They showed, for example, how products of the colonial economy that advanced industrialization—such as sugar and coffee—had an enduring effect on European lifestyles.
