Postsocialism
Title | Postsocialism PDF eBook |
Author | C.M. Hann |
Publisher | Routledge |
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 |
Pages | 281 |
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 |
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.
Masquerade and Postsocialism
Title | Masquerade and Postsocialism PDF eBook |
Author | Gerald W. Creed |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
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 |
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.
Post-Soviet Social
Title | Post-Soviet Social PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen J. Collier |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 2011-08-08 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1400840422 |
The Soviet Union created a unique form of urban modernity, developing institutions of social provisioning for hundreds of millions of people in small and medium-sized industrial cities spread across a vast territory. After the collapse of socialism these institutions were profoundly shaken--casualties, in the eyes of many observers, of market-oriented reforms associated with neoliberalism and the Washington Consensus. In Post-Soviet Social, Stephen Collier examines reform in Russia beyond the Washington Consensus. He turns attention from the noisy battles over stabilization and privatization during the 1990s to subsequent reforms that grapple with the mundane details of pipes, wires, bureaucratic routines, and budgetary formulas that made up the Soviet social state. Drawing on Michel Foucault's lectures from the late 1970s, Post-Soviet Social uses the Russian case to examine neoliberalism as a central form of political rationality in contemporary societies. The book's basic finding--that neoliberal reforms provide a justification for redistribution and social welfare, and may work to preserve the norms and forms of social modernity--lays the groundwork for a critical revision of conventional understandings of these topics.
Ethical Eating in the Postsocialist and Socialist World
Title | Ethical Eating in the Postsocialist and Socialist World PDF eBook |
Author | Yuson Jung |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 2014-02-21 |
Genre | Cooking |
ISBN | 0520277406 |
Current discussions of the ethics around alternative food movements--concepts such as "local," "organic," and "fair trade"--tend to focus on their growth and significance in advanced capitalist societies. In this groundbreaking contribution to critical food studies, editors Yuson Jung, Jakob A. Klein, and Melissa L. Caldwell explore what constitutes "ethical food" and "ethical eating" in socialist and formerly socialist societies. With essays by anthropologists, sociologists, and geographers, this politically nuanced volume offers insight into the origins of alternative food movements and their place in today's global economy. Collectively, the essays cover discourses on food and morality; the material and social practices surrounding production, trade, and consumption; and the political and economic power of social movements in Bulgaria, China, Cuba, Lithuania, Russia, and Vietnam. Scholars and students will gain important historical and anthropological perspective on how the dynamics of state-market-citizen relations continue to shape the ethical and moral frameworks guiding food practices around the world.