Postsocialism : politics and emotions in Central and Eastern Europe / Maruska Svasek.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Svasek, Maruska, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Post-communism--Europe, Eastern--Psychological aspects.

Post-communism.

Ethnopsychology--Europe, Eastern.

Ethnopsychology.

Emotions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2008.

Summary:

In many parts of post-socialist Europe the tumultuous political and economic developments have generated strong emotions, ranging from hope and euphoria to disappointment, envy, disillusionment, sorrow, loneliness, and hatred. Yet these aspects have been largely neglected in analyses of the profound transformations that have taken place in Central and Eastern Europe since 1990. Based on a wide variety of ethnographic case studies focusing on Russian, Siberian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Slovenian, Croatian, Czech, and Polish communities, this volume proves the significance of emotions to post-soc

Contents:

Postsocialism; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1. Nostalgia and the Emotional Economy; Chapter 2. Social Suffering and Political Protest; Chapter 3. Sentiments and/as Property Rights; Chapter 4. Postsocialist Ownership; Chapter 5. Claiming Ownership in Postwar Croatia; Chapter 6. 'The First Europeans' Fantasy of Slovenian Venetologists; Chapter 7. Strategies of Resistance in the Polish Campaign against EU Membership; Chapter 8. The Misgivings of Democracy; Chapter 9. The Dynamics of Trust and Mistrust in Poland; Afterword; Notes on Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 25, 2014).

ISBN:

9780857455598

0857455591

OCLC:

871857653