Abstract
After the fall of the Soviet Union, the concept of postsocialism became prominent in various academic discourses. Postsocialism, as a term, was used in relation to the former members of the USSR and other socialist countries in Europe and Asia.
These public utterances arose amid a new naming and analysis of a 'neoliberalism after socialism in Europe and Asia' and 'decolonialism in the postsocialist and capitalist Europe and Asia'. How did all these con- structions, practices, and discourses intersect? To put it differently, was postsocialism only associated with Europe and Asia, and how were neoliberalism and decolonialism analysed under the auspices of the term 'postsocialist'?