Cristofer Scarboro
Biographic Data
| ID | 845887 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cristofer Scarboro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cristofer |
| FAMILY NAME | Scarboro |
| SIGNATURE | SCARBORO C |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College - Pennsylvania |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Free to Hate
Post-communist Nostalgia
Although the end of the Cold War was greeted with great enthusiasm by people in the East and the West, the ensuing social and especially economic changes did not always result in the hoped-for improvements in people’s lives. This led to widespread disillusionment that can be observed today all across Eastern Europe. Not simply a longing for security, stability, and prosperity, this nostalgia is also a sense of loss regarding a specific form of so…
The Socialist Good Life
Living after the Fall. Contingent Biographies in Postsocialist Space
I spent my sabbatical year at the American Research Center in Sofia during the 25 th anniversary of what Bulgarians call 'the changes' of 1989.In the time since 2014, Bulgarians have been actively questioning the political, economic, and social systems that emerged from the wreckage of the communist experiment.In 2014, political protests were omnipresent as I walked to the central state archives on Moskovska Street, eating banitsa and drinking st…
From Bath House to Parliament Building
From Bath House to Parliament Building: The Ambivalence of Colonial Desire Cristofer Scarboro For the late nineteenth century British observer, the junket from the Vienna station across the Danube (or Carpathians) to points in the Balkans created and journied across several boundaries—civilization and barbarity; history and timelessness; repression and oppression. Travel to the Balkans, made increasingly proximate by the spread of railways, laid …
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From Bath House to Parliament Building
From Bath House to Parliament Building: The Ambivalence of Colonial Desire Cristofer Scarboro For the late nineteenth century British observer, the junket from the Vienna station across the Danube (or Carpathians) to points in the Balkans created and journied across several boundaries—civilization and barbarity; history and timelessness; repression and oppression. Travel to the Balkans, made increasingly proximate by the spread of railways, laid …
Living after the Fall. Contingent Biographies in Postsocialist Space
I spent my sabbatical year at the American Research Center in Sofia during the 25 th anniversary of what Bulgarians call 'the changes' of 1989.In the time since 2014, Bulgarians have been actively questioning the political, economic, and social systems that emerged from the wreckage of the communist experiment.In 2014, political protests were omnipresent as I walked to the central state archives on Moskovska Street, eating banitsa and drinking st…
The Socialist Good Life
Post-communist Nostalgia
Although the end of the Cold War was greeted with great enthusiasm by people in the East and the West, the ensuing social and especially economic changes did not always result in the hoped-for improvements in people’s lives. This led to widespread disillusionment that can be observed today all across Eastern Europe. Not simply a longing for security, stability, and prosperity, this nostalgia is also a sense of loss regarding a specific form of so…
Free to Hate
Political science (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Balkans: History, Politics, Society (2 works) · Eastern (2 works) · Europe (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · 1989 (1 work) · Aesthetics (1 work)