Everyday revolutions in Eastern Europe and the Balkans / edited by Piotr Goldstein and Phaedra Douzina-Bakalaki.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Goldstein, Piotr, editor.

Douzina-Bakalaki, Phaedra, editor.

Series:

Routledge histories of Central and Eastern Europe

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Resistance (Philosophy).

Social movements.

Passive resistance.

Europe, Eastern--Social conditions.

Europe, Eastern.

Europe, Eastern--Politics and government.

Balkan Peninsula--Social conditions.

Balkan Peninsula.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2027.

Summary:

"This book draws on ethnographic case studies from Eastern Europe and the Balkans to examine "everyday revolutions," shifting focus from spectacular uprisings to the subtle, dispersed, and often overlooked practices through which people challenge power and reshape social life. Exploring a region often imagined as either a cradle of upheaval or politically stagnant, the book highlights acts of resistance, refusal, care, and creativity that unsettle dominant orders without conforming to grand narratives of revolutionary change. From hospital wards, households, and schools to digital archives, satire, and grassroots cultural scenes, the contributors trace how actors negotiate constraints, contest authority, and enact alternative futures in the present. By probing blurred boundaries between continuity and rupture, the mundane and the exceptional, they interrogate who is recognised as a political subject and what counts as revolutionary action. "Everyday revolutions" are proposed as an analytical lens to reveal how ordinary practices carry transformative potential, expanding understandings of political struggle and illuminating less visible yet profoundly consequential modes of social change. Accessibly written, this interdisciplinary volume speaks to undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars of anthropology, sociology, political science, and human geography, as well as those with an interest in Eastern Europe and the Balkans"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction. Everyday Revolutions / Phaedra Douzina-Bakalaki and Piotr Goldstein

"We are no longer in communism!" : everyday revolutions in high-schools in Romania / Imola Püsök

"You are pregnant- you did not have to pay" : conforming as confronting / Ljiljana Pantović

A woman- an everyday life activist : a Polish example / Katarzyna Orszulak-Dudkowska

Polish displaced persons take a ghost train and resettle on Saturn : refugee satire as a form of resistance / Katarzyna Nowak

How the memory of dissent changed contemporary photographic heritage? : The hobbyist revolution of Fortepan / Tamás Scheibner

"Bad taste" as cultural resistance : FESRAM and the crap music debate in Serbia / Irena Šentevska

The beginnings of activism? : Refusal as political engagement for refugees in Slovakia / Eva-Maria Walther

Infrapolitics as everyday revolutions? : Exploring liminal protest tactics in contemporary Russia / Christian Fröhlich and Kerstin Jacobsson.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781003261292

OCLC:

1603463093