Changing Economies and Changing Identities in Postsocialist Eastern Europe

Datos Bibliográficos

ID19935076
AutoresIngo Schröder (Max Planck Society)
EditoresIngo W Schröder, Asta Vonderau (0000-0003-4056-839X)
Año2009
Páginas240
Fecha de publicación2009-04-05
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaChanging Economies and Changing Identities in Postsocialist Eastern Europe (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialLit Verlag (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.52038/978-38258-1121-1
OpenAlexW658617582
Open LibraryOL39847929M
ISBN9783825811211
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas26

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

Economic geography · Economic system · Economics · Economy · Geography · Political science · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · Polish Historical and Cultural Studies · Post-Communist Economic and Political Transition · Congresses · East European National characteristics · East Europeans · Eastern · Economic conditions · Europe · Europeans · Group identity · National characteristics · Social conditions