Mobilities in Socialist and Post-Socialist States [electronic resource] : Societies on the Move /
Burrell, K.editor.
Hörschelmann, K.editor.
This interdisciplinary collection explores what mobility meant, and still means, in the specific contexts of Soviet and East European socialist and post-socialist societies. Together the chapters consider diverse practices of mobility and their different contexts of power, resistance and inequality.
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Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction: UnderstandingMobility in Soviet and EastEuropean Socialist andPost-Socialist States; 2 Communication, Mobility andControl in the Soviet Unionafter World War II; 3 Power and Mobilities in SocialistRomania 1964-89; 4 Leisure and Politics:Soviet Central Asian Touristsacross the Iron Curtain; 5 Between Limits, Lures andExcitement: Socialist RomanianHolidays Abroad during the1960s-80s; 6 Mooring in Socialist Automobility:Garage Areas
7 'Women Here Are Like at the Timeof Enver [Hoxha] ... ': Socialist andPost-Socialist Gendered Mobilitiesin Albanian Society8 The View from the Back of theWarrior: Mobility, Privilege andPower during the InternationalIntervention in Bosnia-Herzegovina; 9 Travel and the State after the 'Fall':Everyday Modes of Transport inPost-Socialist Serbia; 10 Urban Public Transport and theState in Post-Soviet Central Asia; 11 Geography of Daily Mobilities inPost-Socialist European Countries:Evidence from Slovenia
12 Life-Worlds of Deceleration:Reflections on the 'New MobilitiesParadigm' through EthnographicResearch in Post-Socialist GermanyIndex
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
This interdisciplinary collection explores what mobility meant, and still means, in the specific contexts of Soviet and East European socialist and post-socialist societies. Together the chapters consider diverse practices of mobility and their different contexts of power, resistance and inequality.
Europe-History.
Ethnology-Europe.
Russia-History.
Europe, Eastern-History.
Emigration and immigration.
Human geography.
Political theory.
European History.
European Culture.
Russian, Soviet, and East European History.
Migration.
Human Geography.
Political Theory.