Postsocialist Mobilities


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Postsocialist Mobilities


Postsocialist Mobilities
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Author : Hajnal Király
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2021-04-27

Postsocialist Mobilities written by Hajnal Király and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-27 with Performing Arts categories.


This volume examines the various forms of mobility in the cinema of the Visegrad countries and Romania, bringing together the cross-disciplinary research of mostly native scholars. Divided into four thematic sections, it expands the reader’s understanding of the political transition and the social changes it triggered, the transforming perceptions of gender roles and especially masculinity. The spaces of “in betweenness” and contact zones, whether geographical, interethnic or communicative, (im)mobility and transmedial encounters of Eastern European subjectivity are recurring figures of both cinematic representations and their theoretical analyses. In-depth and transcultural in their nature, the investigations gathered in this volume are informed by political, social and cultural history, genre, gender and spatial theory, cultural studies, sociology and political science, and, of equal importance, the rich personal experience of the authors who witnessed many of the discussed phenomena in “close-up”.



Mobilities In Socialist And Post Socialist States


Mobilities In Socialist And Post Socialist States
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Author : K. Burrell
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-09-23

Mobilities In Socialist And Post Socialist States written by K. Burrell and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-23 with History categories.


This interdisciplinary collection explores what mobility meant, and still means, in the specific contexts of Soviet and East European socialist and post-socialist societies. Together the chapters consider diverse practices of mobility and their different contexts of power, resistance and inequality.



If Cars Could Walk


If Cars Could Walk
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Author : Ger Duijzings
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2023-07-14

If Cars Could Walk written by Ger Duijzings and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-14 with Travel categories.


In the last twenty-five years, the explosive rise of car mobility has transformed street life in postsocialist cities. Whereas previously the social fabric of these cities ran on socialist modes of mobility, they are now overtaken by a culture of privately owned cars. If Cars Could Walk uses ethnographic cases studies documenting these changes in terms of street interaction, vehicles used, and the parameters of speed, maneuverability, and cultural and symbolic values. The altered reality of people’s movements, replacing public transport, bicycles and other former ‘socialist’ modes of mobility with privatized mobility reflect an evolving political and cultural imagination, which in turn shapes their current political reality.



Pacific Automobilism


Pacific Automobilism
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Author : Gijs Mom
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2022-09-13

Pacific Automobilism written by Gijs Mom and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-13 with Transportation categories.


The beginning of the 21st century has seen important shifts in mobility cultures around the world, as the West’s media-driven car culture has contrasted with existing local mobilities, from rickshaws in India and minibuses in Africa to cycling in China. In this expansive volume, historian Gijs Mom explores how contemporary mobility has been impacted by social, political, and economic forces on a global scale, as in light of local mobility cultures, the car as an ‘adventure machine’ seems to lose cultural influence in favor of the car’s status character.



Ageing Masculinities In Contemporary European And Anglophone Cinema


Ageing Masculinities In Contemporary European And Anglophone Cinema
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Author : Tony Tracy
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-12-30

Ageing Masculinities In Contemporary European And Anglophone Cinema written by Tony Tracy and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-30 with Social Science categories.


This volume offers a unique exploration of how ageing masculinities are constructed and represented in contemporary international cinema. With chapters spanning a range of national cinemas, the primarily European focus of the book is juxtaposed with analysis of the social and cultural constructions of manhood and the "anti-ageing" impulses of male stardom in contemporary Hollywood. These themes are inflected in different ways throughout the volume, from considering how old age is not the monolithic and unified life stage with which it is often framed, to exploring issues of queerness, sexuality, and asexuality, as well as themes such as national cinema and dementia. Offering a diverse and multifaceted portrait of ageing and masculinity in contemporary cinema, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of film and screen studies, gender and masculinity studies, and cultural gerontology.



Identity And Nation Building In Everyday Post Socialist Life


Identity And Nation Building In Everyday Post Socialist Life
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Author : Abel Polese
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-31

Identity And Nation Building In Everyday Post Socialist Life written by Abel Polese and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-31 with Social Science categories.


This book explores the function of the “everyday” in the formation, consolidation and performance of national, sub-national and local identities in the former socialist region. Based on extensive original research including fieldwork, the book demonstrates how the study of everyday and mundane practices is a meaningful and useful way of understanding the socio-political processes of identity formation both at the top and bottom level of a state. The book covers a wide range of countries including the Baltic States, Ukraine, Russia, the Caucasus and Central Asia, and considers “everyday” banal practices, including those related to consumption, kinship, embodiment, mobility, music, and the use of objects and artifacts. Overall, the book draws on, and contributes to, theory; and shows how the process of nation-building is not just undertaken by formal actors, such as the state, its institutions and political elites.



Rethinking Ethnography In Central Europe


Rethinking Ethnography In Central Europe
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Author : Hana Cervinkova
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-09-09

Rethinking Ethnography In Central Europe written by Hana Cervinkova and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-09 with Social Science categories.


In eleven ethnographic chapters of Rethinking Ethnography in Central Europe examines how issues of global economic and cultural dependencies, mobilities, citizens activism, social movements, and socio-political aspects of post-socialist modernities articulate on the level of everyday discourse and practices.



The Future Of Post Socialism


The Future Of Post Socialism
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Author : John Frederick Bailyn
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2018-10-09

The Future Of Post Socialism written by John Frederick Bailyn and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-09 with Political Science categories.


Explores the current and future trajectories of the paradigm of postsocialism. If socialism did not end as abruptly as is sometimes perceived, what remnants of it linger today and will continue to linger? Moreover, if postsocialism is an umbrella term for the uncertain times of various transitions that followed in socialism’s wake, how might the “post” be rendered complicated by the notion that the unfinished business of socialism continues to influence the trajectory of the future? The Future of (Post)Socialism examines this unfinished business through various disciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches that seek to illuminate the postsocialist future as a cultural and social fact. Drawn from the fields of history, ethnology, anthropology, sociology, economics, political science, education, linguistics, literature, and cultural studies, contributors analyze various cultural forms and practices of the formerly socialist cultural spaces of Eastern Europe. In so doing, they question the teleology of linear transitional narratives and of assumptions about postsocialist linear progress, concluding that things operate more as continued interruptions of a perpetually liminal state rather than as neat endings and new beginnings. John Frederick Bailyn is Professor of Linguistics at Stony Brook University, State University of New York, and the author of The Syntax of Russian. Dijana Jelača teaches in the Film Department at Brooklyn College and is the author of Dislocated Screen Memory: Narrating Trauma in Post-Yugoslav Cinema. Danijela Lugarić is Assistant Professor of East-Slavic Languages and Literature at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. She is the coeditor (with Jelača and Maša Kolanović) of The Cultural Life of Capitalism in Yugoslavia: (Post)Socialism and Its Other.



After Utopia


After Utopia
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Author : Larisa Kurtović
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-11-28

After Utopia written by Larisa Kurtović and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-28 with Political Science categories.


This collection examines how the loss of state socialism as a world-making project and the subsequent failures of postsocialist "civil society building" have impacted new generations of progressive, antinationalist, anarchist, and social-justice oriented activists. How do the histories of state socialism come to shape activist thinking and practice in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus? What kinds of political work can and does emerge out of this 30-year-long experience of political, social, and economic transformation? Understanding postsocialism as an intersectional experience and a geopolitically sensitive form of knowledge, this collection of essays seeks to render visible the forms of political activism in the region that are not tied to, or fully determined by, specific moments of street protest and public interruption. Instead, the contributors examine forms of activist effort that endure in the aftermath of protest movements and in the course of lingering crises, in order to capture how our interlocutors seek to enact their desired futures under the conditions of intensifying and shape-shifting pressures of neoliberal governance. The ethnographies that span from Armenia to Ukraine, to Bosnia-Herzegovina to the newly emerging transnational Balkan route that refugees and migrants have created, illuminate how local activists engage with and/or disengage from their socialist inheritance of political imaginaries differently and imagine different futures. Our collection argues for a need for a careful, theoretically nuanced and context-specific analysis across the uneven political landscapes of the former socialist world. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of History and Anthropology.



Disability And Mobile Citizenship In Postsocialist Ukraine


Disability And Mobile Citizenship In Postsocialist Ukraine
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Author : Sarah D. Phillips
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2010-11-26

Disability And Mobile Citizenship In Postsocialist Ukraine written by Sarah D. Phillips and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-26 with History categories.


Sarah D. Phillips examines the struggles of disabled persons in Ukraine and the other former Soviet states to secure their rights during the tumultuous political, economic, and social reforms of the last two decades. Through participant observation and interviews with disabled Ukrainians across the social spectrum -- rights activists, politicians, students, workers, entrepreneurs, athletes, and others -- Phillips documents the creative strategies used by people on the margins of postsocialist societies to assert claims to "mobile citizenship." She draws on this rich ethnographic material to argue that public storytelling is a powerful means to expand notions of relatedness, kinship, and social responsibility, and which help shape a more tolerant and inclusive society.