Changing Economies And Changing Identities In Postsocialist Eastern Europe

Author : Ingo Schröder
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3825811212
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Changing Economies and Changing Identities in Postsocialist Eastern Europe written by Ingo Schröder and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2008 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses class formation and changes in personhood in contemporary Eastern Europe in the context of the spread of a market economy. The authors investigate processes of social closure, marginalization and elite formation, paying particular attention to their cultural expressions and to the legitimizing discourses of nationalist and neoliberal agendas. While individual and collective identities are inextricably linked with the consolidation of global capitalism, external blueprints are everywhere mediated through historically grounded experiences and local social relations. Comprising studies from Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Russia, the volume explores practices, stories, and performances in everyday life worlds. The ethnographies show both individual and collective identities to be emergent projects, constrained by economic processes and state policies but ultimately created by people themselves as they pursue their interests and search for meaning.

Author : Andrew M. Blasko
Publisher : CRVP
ISBN 13 : 1565182464
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Transformation and Changing Identities in Central and Eastern Europe written by Andrew M. Blasko and published by CRVP. This book was released on 2008 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bruno Grancelli
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 9783110144901
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Change and Modernization written by Bruno Grancelli and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 1995 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Walker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135701245
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Youth and Social Change in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union written by Charles Walker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two decades have now passed since the revolutions of 1989 swept through Eastern Europe and precipitated the collapse of state socialism across the region, engendering a period of massive social, economic and political transformation. This book explores the ways in which young people growing up in post-socialist Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union negotiate a range of identities and transitions in their personal lives against a backdrop of thoroughgoing transformation in their societies. Drawing upon original empirical research in a range of countries, the book's contributors explore the various freedoms and insecurities that have accompanied neo-liberal transformation in post-socialist countries - in spheres as diverse as consumption, migration, political participation, volunteering, employment and family formation - and examine the ways in which they have begun to re-shape different aspects of young people's lives. In addition, while 'social change' is a central theme of the issue, all of the chapters in the collection indicate that the new opportunities and risks faced by young people continue both to underpin and to be shaped by familiar social and spatial divisions, not only within and between the countries addressed, but also between 'East' and 'West'. This book was originally published as a special issue of Journal of Youth Studies.

Author : Hanna Scheck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783200027435
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Changing identities in South Eastern Europe : between Europeanisation, globalisation, regionalisation, and nationalism written by Hanna Scheck and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nadezhda Lebedeva
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319726161
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Changing Values and Identities in the Post-Communist World written by Nadezhda Lebedeva and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-04-04 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comparative analysis of value and identity changes in several post-Soviet countries. In light of the tremendous economic, social and political changes in former communist states, the authors compare the values, attitudes and identities of different generations and cultural groups. Based on extensive empirical data, using quantitative and qualitative methods to study complex social identities, this book examines how intergenerational value and identity changes are linked to socio-economic and political development. Topics include the rise of nationalist sentiments, identity formation of ethnic and religious groups and minorities, youth identity formation and intergenerational value conflicts.

Author : Jeremy Morris
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135009287
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Informal Post-Socialist Economy written by Jeremy Morris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-13 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From smugglers to entrepreneurs, blue-collar workers and taxi drivers, this book deals with the multitude of characters engaged in informal economic practices in the former socialist regions. Going beyond a conception of informality as opposed to the formal sector, its authors demonstrate the fluid nature of informal transactions straddling the crossroads between illegal, illicit, socially acceptable and symbolically meaningful practices. Their argument is informed by a wide range of case studies, from Central Europe to the Baltics and Central Asia, each of which is constructed around a single informant. Each chapter narrates the story of a composite person or household that was carefully selected or constructed by an author with long-standing ethnographic research experience in the given field site. Wide in geographical, empirical and theoretical scope, the book uses ethnographic narrative accounts of everyday life to make links between ‘ordinary’ meanings of informality. Challenging reductively economistic perspectives on cross-border trading, undeclared work and other informal activities, the authors illustrate the wide variety of interpretive meanings that people ascribe to such practices. Alongside ‘getting by’ and ‘getting ahead’ in recently marketised societies, these meanings relate to sociality, kinship-ties and solidarity, along with more surprising ‘political’ and moral reasonings.

Author : J. Morris
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137483075
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Informal Economies in Post-Socialist Spaces written by J. Morris and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-06-23 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Informed by in-depth case studies focusing on a wide spectrum of micro and macro post-socialist realities, this book demonstrates the multi-faceted nature of informality and suggests that it is a widely diffused phenomenon, used at all levels of a society and by both winners and losers of post-socialist transition.

Author : Ida Harboe Knudsen
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 178308412X
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethnographies of Grey Zones in Eastern Europe written by Ida Harboe Knudsen and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last two decades, Eastern Europe has experienced extensive changes in geo-political relocations and relations leading to everyday uncertainty. Attempts to establish liberal democracies, re-orientations from planned to market economics, and a desire to create ‘new states’ and internationally minded ‘new citizens’ has left some in poverty, unemployment and social insecurity, leading them to rely on normative coping and semi-autonomous strategies for security and social guarantees. This anthology explores how grey zones of governance, borders, relations and invisibilities affect contemporary Eastern Europe.

Author : Jacqui True
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231127141
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender, Globalization, and Postsocialism written by Jacqui True and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True examines political and gendered identities in flux in post-communist Czech Republic. She argues that the privatization of a formerly state economy and the adoption of consumer-oriented market practices were shaped by ideas and attitudes about gender roles. This book also offers a provocative general thesis about the inextricable linkages between political and economic changes and gender identities.