Uncertain Transition - Ethnographies of Change in the Postsocialist World (Paperback, New)

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.

General

Imprint:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 1999
First published:	1999
Editors:	Michael Burawoy • Katherine Verdery
Contributors:	Sarah Ashwin • Michael Burawoy • Gerald Creed • Elizabeth Dunn • Caroline Humphrey • Andrew Lass • David Woodruff • Slawomira Zbierski-Salameh
Dimensions:	229 x 154 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	320
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-8476-9043-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General Promotions
LSN:	0-8476-9043-1
Barcode:	9780847690435

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