Rethinking ethnography in Central Europe

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Rethinking ethnography in Central Europe

edited by Hana Cervinkova, Michal Buchowski, and Zdeněk Uherek

Palgrave Macmillan, 2015

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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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.

Table of 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

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