Rethinking Ethnography in Central Europe

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.

In addition to theories, this book informs us about anthropological methods. Several pieces enhance general findings with accounts of pertinent individual case studies. Like many anthologies, this volume explores diverse subjects, rather than offering one comprehensive and unified text. As a whole, however, it offers its readers rich, overlapping experiences in two dynamic and colorful worlds. Both vibrant worlds are skillfully portrayed as diverse and full of contrasts and tensions, achievements and challenges. (Pamela Sour,pol-int.org, January, 2016)

Autorentext
Veronika Beranská, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic Alexandra Bitu íková, Matej Bel University in Banska Bystricá, Slovakia Katarzyna Wolanik Boström, Umeå University, Sweden Michal Buchowski, Adam Mickiewicz University in Pozna?, Poland Hana Cervinkova, University of Lower Silesia, Poland Hana Horáková, Metropolitan University Prague, Czech Republic Martin H?íbek, Charles University, Czech Republic Gertrud Hüwelmeier, Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany Agnieszka Ko?cia?ska, University of Warsaw, Poland Waldemar Kuligowski, Adam Mickiewicz University in Pozna?, Poland Izabella Main, Adam Mickiewicz University in Pozna?, Poland Marek Miku , Comenius University, Slovakia Magnus Öhlander, Stockholm University, Sweden Marek Pawlak, Jagiellonian University, Poland Agata Stanisz, Adam Mickiewicz University in Pozna?, Poland Zden?k Uherek, Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic

Inhalt

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 Boström and Magnus Öhlander 3. Mobile Entrepreneurs: Transnational Vietnamese in the Czech Republic; Gertrud Hüwelmeier 4. Pavlivka Iodine Spring Water: Transnational Entrepreneurship in Post-Transition Contexts; Zdenek Uherek and Veronika Beranská 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 Banská Bystrica; Alexandra BituSíková 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 Horáková 11. Dalai-Lamaism: An Orientalist Construction of Post-Socialist Consciousness; Martin Hríbek