
Uncertain Transition: Ethnographies of Change in the Postsocialist World (Paperback)
Katherine Verdery (editor), Sarah Ashwin (author of contributions), Michael Burawoy (author of contributions,editor), Gerald Creed (author of contributions), Elizabeth Dunn (author of contributions), Caroline Humphrey (author of contributions), Andrew Lass (author of contributions), David Woodruff (author of contributions), Slawomira Zbierski-Salameh (author of contributions)
£44.00
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320 Pages /
Published: 04/02/1999
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The ethnographies collected here offer a surprising and compelling picture of change in Russia and Eastern Europe found in no other book to date. Looking at the everyday processes by which individuals and groups forge new lives, the authors challenge the idea that we can understand this transformation by the predictable models_whether capitalism, post-socialism, modernity, or postmodernity. The collection brings together a wide-ranging group of authors from sociology, anthropology, and political science to reveal the complex relationships that still exist between the former socialist world and the world today. Through evocative ethnographic research and writing, they bring to light the unintended consequences of change and show how the 'slates' of the past enter the present not as legacies_but as novel adaptations. Often what appear as 'restorations' of patterns familiar from socialism are something quite different: direct responses to the new market initiatives. By showing the unexpected ways in which these new patterns are emerging, this book charts a new and important course for the study of post-socialist transition.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780847690435
Number of pages: 320
Weight: 485 g
Dimensions: 229 x 154 x 24 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
An excellent introduction to the current social and political changes in Eastern Europe. Although it presents an academic discussion, I strongly suggest that business people and those who plan to work in Eastern Europe should glance at it, for it offers an excellent insight into the mentality of societies with which they might work. * Slavic and East European Journal *
The studies in the Burawoy and Verdery volume put flesh on this argument, providing an inconvertible demonstration of the importance of ethnographic research for the development of social theory as well as invaluable material for thhose seeking to find some coherence in the "uncertain transition." * American Journal of Sociology *
The studies in the Burawoy and Verdery volume put flesh on this argument, providing an inconvertible demonstration of the importance of ethnographic research for the development of social theory as well as invaluable material for thhose seeking to find some coherence in the "uncertain transition." * American Journal of Sociology *
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