Explores the current and future trajectories of the paradigm of postsocialism.If socialism did not end as abruptly as is sometimes perceived what remnants of it linger today and will continue to linger Moreover if postsocialism is an umbrella term for the uncertain times of various transitions that followed in socialisms wake how might the post be rendered complicated by the notion that the unfinished business of socialism continues to influence the trajectory of the future The Future of PostSocialism examines this unfinished business through various disciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches that seek to illuminate the postsocialist future as a cultural and social fact. Drawn from the fields of history ethnology anthropology sociology economics political science education linguistics literature and cultural studies contributors analyze various cultural forms and practices of the formerly socialist cultural spaces of Eastern Europe. In so doing they question the teleology of linear transitional narratives and of assumptions about postsocialist linear progress concluding that things operate more as continued interruptions of a perpetually liminal state rather than as neat endings and new beginnings.