Full Description
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.
Contents
PART I: MOBILITIES 1. Othering the Self: National Identity and Social Class in Mobile Lives; Marek Pawlak 2. Re-Negotiating Symbolic Capital, Status, and Knowledge: Polish Physicians in Sweden; Katarzyna Wolanik Bostrom and Magnus Ohlander 3. Mobile Entrepreneurs: Transnational Vietnamese in the Czech Republic; Gertrud Huwelmeier 4. Pavlivka Iodine Spring Water: Transnational Entrepreneurship in Post-Transition Contexts; Zdenek Uherek and Veronika Beranska 5. Giving Birth in Berlin: Reproductive Experiences of Polish Migrant Women; Izabella Main PART II: CONTESTING TRANSITION. ACTIVISMS AND EXPERT KNOWLEDGES 6. New Urban Activism in Slovakia: The Case of Banska Bystrica; Alexandra Bitusikova 7. Feminist and Queer Sex Therapy: The Ethnography of Expert Knowledge of Sexuality in Poland; Agnieszka Koscianska 8. Civil society and EU Integration of Serbia: Toward a Historical Anthropology of Globalizing Post-Socialist Europe; Marek Mikus PART III: POST-SOCIALIST MODERNITIES 9. On the Road: Polish Modernization from the Perspective of the Anthropology of the Motorway; Waldemar Kuligowski and Agata Stanisz 10. Ethnography of Post-Socialist Rural Change: Social Memory, Modernity, Local Empowerment, and Internal Displacement; Hana Horakova 11. Dalai-Lamaism: An Orientalist Construction of Post-Socialist Consciousness; Martin Hribek
