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Anthropology of Transformation
From Europe to Asia and Back
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Juraj Buzalka
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Agnieszka Pasieka
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Economics, Politics and Sociology
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post-socialism
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Chris Hann
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ethnography
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This collection of essays is the result of the joint efforts of colleagues and students of the leading social anthropology and post-socialism theorist, Professor Chris Hann. With the thirtieth anniversary of the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 2019 as their catalyst, the authors reflect upon Chris Hann’s lifelong fieldwork in the discipline, spanning regions as diverse as East Central Europe, Turkey, and the Chinese north-west.
The collapse of the Berlin Wall naturally triggered a plethora of analysis and scholarly research. Sociocultural anthropology, with its focus on ethnographic study and on the gradual evolution of social relations, sharply contrasted with the emphasis on dramatic rupture brought about by the 1989 transition.
Continuing in this tradition, this volume, through micro-level analysis of societal transformation from the post-war years to the present day, provides an alternative perspective to the neoliberalist views often encountered in the scholarship on political and economic modernisation. The more nuanced analysis of social transformations proposed here is a particularly useful tool in the investigation of contemporary issues such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the refugee ‘crisis’, and the rise of right-wing populism in Eastern Europe and elsewhere.
Anthropology of Transformation will be of interest to researchers in the fields of socio-cultural anthropology, religion and economics. Moreover, the book’s discussion of issues widely discussed beyond the field of academia such as neoliberalism and the welfare state, and populist and exclusionary politics, will appeal to non-specialist readers.
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Contributor Biographies
Introduction
Juraj Buzalka and Agnieszka Pasieka
Key Terms, or: The Title of the Volume Explained
Chris Hann’s School of Anthropology
On Method
References
1. Voiced versus Acted Trust: Managing Social Uncertainty and Marginalisation in Rural Southern Italy and Central Eastern Europe
Davide Torsello
Analytical Approaches to Trust
Methodology
Voiced Trust
Acted Trust
Interpersonal Trust: The Kin Group
Villagers
Institutional Trust
Conclusions
References
Appendix
2. Property Relations and Ethnic Conflict in Post-war Croatia: Reflections on Conceptual Approaches and Research Findings
Carolin Leutloff-Grandits
Introduction
The Concept of Housing Relations and Their Transformation in Post-socialist, Post-war Croatia
Housing Relations as Social Relations in Post-war, Post-socialist Knin
The Housing Conflict, the Croatian State and the International Neoliberalist Policy
The Re-entry of Ethno-nationalism through Spiritual Property Relations
EU Accession and the Experience of Layered Time and Stagnation at the Margins of the Nation State
Conclusions
References
3. The ‘Post’ in Perspective: Revisiting the Post-socialist Religious Question in Central Asia and Central and Eastern Europe
Julie McBrien and Vlad Naumescu
Introduction
Secularism and Religion between the ‘Posts’
Religious Transformations and Collective Dynamics
Nationalism, State and New Political Mobilisations
Conclusion
References
4. “We Are Not Believers, We’re Workers”: The Synchrony of Work, Gender, and Religion in a Priestless Orthodox Community
Agata Ładykowska
Theoretical Considerations: Deorientalising Orthodoxy
Prichud’e
Priestless Orthodoxy
Work and Prayer
Conclusion
References
5. The Moral Economy of Consensus and Informality in Uzbekistan
Tommaso Trevisani
Moral Economies in Post-socialist Eurasia
Informal Economy in Uzbekistan
The “Uzbek Path”, Informal Economy and Middle Strata
Andijan and Its Consequences
Navigating Everyday Informality in the Ferghana Valley
Rationalising the “Dominant” Form of Integration
Authoritarian Mode of Integration
A Moral Economy of Consensus and Informality
References
6. The Moral Dimension of (Un)Employment: Work and Fairness in an Eastern German Town
Katerina Ivanova
Introduction
Work as a Moral Value before Socialism
Work and Employment in the ‘Workers’ and Peasants’ State’
Zwickau Labour Market after 1989
Moral Dimension of Work
Conclusion
References
7. Beyond Blue Eyes? Xenophobia on the Eastern Margins of the European Union
László Fosztó
Introduction
Ethnicity, (Dis)Embeddedness, and the Roma
“The Two Romanias” and Emerging New (Dis)Integration
Racialised Encounters with or without Migrants
In Lieu of Conclusion: Refocus on the Local
References
8. Post-Peasant Progressivism: On Liberal Tendencies in the Slovak Countryside
Juraj Buzalka
Populism and Transformations
Post-socialist Memories
Post-socialist Progressivism
Liberal Ruralism
Conclusion
References
9. Swimming against the Tide: Right-wing Populism, Post-socialism and Beyond
Agnieszka Pasieka
Right-wing Populism and a (Missing) Anthropological Perspective
Polish Labour
Work and Populism, Work of Populism
Conclusion
References
10. Transoceania: Connecting the World beyond Eurasia
Edyta Roszko
Introduction
Mobile Maritime Peoples, not Empires
The Ocean Worlds
Transoceania: From Terrestrial Divides to the Singularity and Connectedness of the Ocean
An Emergent Thalassography of Transoceanic Connections
Conclusion
References
Index
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