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, Polish,
and Latvian communities, this volume proves the significance of
emotions to post-socialist political processes as an inherent part
of the transformations and sheds new light on the impact of local,
national, and transnational political forces that have given rise
to the resurgence of nationalist sentiments, increasing poverty and
marginalization, conflicts arising from the restitution of state
property, constitutional changes, and economic deprivation. Maruska
Svasek is a lecturer at the School of Anthropological Studies,
Queen's University Belfast. Her main research interests include
postsocialism, border issues, emotions, and the politics of art.
She has published numerous papers in journals and edited
collections on these issues. She is coeditor (with Kay Milton) of
Mixed Emotions: Anthropological Studies of Feeling (Berg, 2005) and
an editor of Focaal: European Journal of Anthropology. She is
currently working on a book on the anthropology of art for Pluto.
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