Abstract
This Commentary is a contribution to the debate on the relevance of the concept of post-socialism today, and it considers reconceptualizing rather than abandoning it. The key argument of the Commentary is that we should give up the “temporal container” approach and scrutinize the metropolitan bias of earlier studies to grasp the multiple temporalities of post-socialism across various spatial contexts and understand more how it is still fueling uneven development through the signification and marginalization of social practices and spaces of post-socialist transition as “internal others” to the unfolding capitalist urbanism in the former Eastern Europe.
Keywords: Post-socialism, uneven development, crisis, geographies of theorization, non-linear temporality
