ISBN:
0-8476-9043-1
,
978-0-8476-9043-5
,
0-8476-9042-3 /Hb.: 978-0-8476-9042-8 /Hb.
,
978-0-585-08055-0 /E-Book
Language:
English
Pages:
VII, 322 Seiten
,
Graphen
Keywords:
Ost-Europa Russland
;
Bulgarien
;
Polen
;
Ungarn
;
Tschechien
;
Slowakei
;
Sozialer Wandel
;
Soziale Bedingungen
;
Wirtschaftsform
;
Wirtschaftlicher Wandel
;
Postkommunismus
;
Politischer Wandel
;
Geschichte, politische
;
Tagungsbericht
;
Anthropologie, politische
;
Siebenbürgen
;
Transsylvanien 〉 Siebenbürgen
Abstract:
The ethnographies collected here offer a surprising and compelling picture of change in Russia and Eastern Europe found in no other book to date. Looking at the everyday processes by which individuals and groups forge new lives, the authors challenge the idea that we can understand this transformation by the predictable models_whether capitalism, post-socialism, modernity, or postmodernity. The collection brings together a wide-ranging group of authors from sociology, anthropology, and political science to reveal the complex relationships that still exist between the former socialist world and the world today. Through evocative ethnographic research and writing, they bring to light the unintended consequences of change and show how the 'slates' of the past enter the present not as legacies_but as novel adaptations. Often what appear as 'restorations' of patterns familiar from socialism are something quite different: direct responses to the new market initiatives. By showing the unexpected ways in which these new patterns are emerging, this book charts a new and important course for the study of post-socialist transition. (Umschlagtext)
Description / Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Michael Burawoy and Katherine Verdery -- 1 Traders, "Disorder," and Citizenship Regimes in Provincial Russia / Caroline Humphrey -- 2 Fuzzy Property: Rights, Power, and Identity in Transylvania's Decollectivization / Katherine Verdery -- 3 Barter of the Bankrupt: The Politics of Demonetization in Russia's Federal State / David Woodruff -- 4 Slick Salesmen and Simple People: Negotiated Capitalism in a Privatized Polish Firm / Elizabeth Dunn -- 5 "But We Are Still Mothers": Gender, the State, and the Construction of Need in Postsocialist Hungary / Lynne Haney -- 6 Polish Peasants in the "Valley of Transition": Responses to Postsocialist Reforms / Slawomira Zbierski-Salameh -- 7 Deconstructing Socialism in Bulgaria / Gerald W. Creed -- 8 Redefining the Collective: Russian Mineworkers in Transition / Sarah Ashwin -- 9 Portable Worlds: On the Limits of Replication in the Czech and Slovak Republics / Andrew Lass -- 10 Afterword / Michael Burawoy -- Index -- About the Contributors
Note:
"the conference, 'Ethnographies in Transition: the Political and Cultural Dimensions of Emergent Market Economies ind Russa and Eastern Europe," was held in March 1996" (Acknowledgements) [at the Centre for Slavic and East European Studies, University of California, Berkeley, March 22-24 1996]
Permalink
