Postsocialism
Title | Postsocialism PDF eBook |
Author | C.M. Hann |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 358 |
Release | 2003-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1134504462 |
Social scientist did not predict the collapse of the socialist system in 1989-91. Their attempts to explain postsocialism have not been comprehensive. This book examines why, for the first time from an anthropological standpoint.
Everyday Post-Socialism
Title | Everyday Post-Socialism PDF eBook |
Author | Jeremy Morris |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 261 |
Release | 2016-09-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1349950890 |
This book offers a rich ethnographic account of blue-collar workers’ everyday life in a central Russian industrial town coping with simultaneous decline and the arrival of transnational corporations. Everyday Post-Socialism demonstrates how people manage to remain satisfied, despite the crisis and relative poverty they faced after the fall of socialist projects and the social trends associated with neoliberal transformation. Morris shows the ‘other life’ in today’s Russia which is not present in mainstream academic discourse or even in the media in Russia itself. This book offers co-presence and a direct understanding of how the local community lives a life which is not only bearable, but also preferable and attractive when framed in the categories of ‘habitability’, commitment and engagement, and seen in the light of alternative ideas of worth and specific values. Topics covered include working-class identity, informal economy, gender relations and transnational corporations.
On the Social Life of Postsocialism
Title | On the Social Life of Postsocialism PDF eBook |
Author | Daphne Berdahl |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | 193 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0253221706 |
Anthropologist Daphne Berdahl was one of the leading scholars of the transition from state socialism to capitalism in central and eastern Europe. From her pathbreaking ethnography of a former East German border village in the aftermath of German reunification, to her insightful analyses of consumption, nostalgia, and citizenship in the early 21st century, Berdahl's writings probe the contradictions, paradoxes, and ambiguities of postsocialism as few observers have done. This volume brings together her essays, from an early study of memory at the Vietnam War memorial in Washington, D.C., to research on consumption and citizenship undertaken in Leipzig in the years before her untimely death. It serves as a superb introduction to the development of the field of postsocialist cultural studies.
Disability and Postsocialism
Title | Disability and Postsocialism PDF eBook |
Author | Teodor Mladenov |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Former communist countries |
ISBN | 9781138234468 |
This book examines the commodification of labour and overvaluation of economic efficiency along with its influence on disability policy and disabled people. It illuminates continuities between state socialism and postsocialist capitalism, providing a broad critique of contemporary neoliberalism and its impact on individual and collective life.
Postsocialism
Title | Postsocialism PDF eBook |
Author | Maruška Svašek |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | 240 |
Release | 2006-03-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0857455591 |
In many parts of post-socialist Europe the tumultuous political and economic developments have generated strong emotions, ranging from hope and euphoria to disappointment, envy, disillusionment, sorrow, loneliness, and hatred. Yet these aspects have been largely neglected in analyses of the profound transformations that have taken place in Central and Eastern Europe since 1990. Based on a wide variety of ethnographic case studies focusing on Russian, Siberian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Slovenian, Croatian, Czech, and Polish communities, this volume proves the significance of emotions to post-socialist political processes as an inherent part of the transformations and sheds new light on the impact of local, national, and transnational political forces that have given rise to the resurgence of nationalist sentiments, increasing poverty and marginalization, conflicts arising from the restitution of state property, constitutional changes, and economic deprivation.
Masquerade and Postsocialism
Title | Masquerade and Postsocialism PDF eBook |
Author | Gerald W. Creed |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | 272 |
Release | 2011-01-24 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0253222613 |
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Postsocialism and Cultural Politics
Title | Postsocialism and Cultural Politics PDF eBook |
Author | Xudong Zhang |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Total Pages | 364 |
Release | 2008-04-25 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780822342304 |
Xudong Zhang offers a critical analysis of China's 'long 1990s', the tumultuous years between the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown and China's entry into the World Trade Organisation in 2001.