Title: Rethinking ethnography in Central Europe/
Authors: Červinková, Hana, 1973-; Buchowski, Michał; Uherek, Zdenek
Year: 2015
Subjects: Ethnology Europe, Central Case studies.; East Europeans Europe, Western Social conditions Case studies.; Post-communism Europe, Eastern Case studies.; Europe, Central Social conditions Case studies.
Abstract: 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.
Contents: On rethinking ethnography in Central Europe : Towards cosmopolitan anthropologies in the "peripheries" / Michal Buchowski and Hana Cervinkova -- Othering the self : National identity and social class in mobile lives / Marek Pawlak -- Re-negotiating symbolic capital, status, and knowledge : Polish physicians in Sweden / Katarzyna Wolanik Boström and Magnus Öhlander -- Mobile entrepreneurs : Transnational Vietnamese in the Czech Republic / Gertrud Hüwelmeier -- Pavlivka iodine spring water : Transnational entrepreneurship in post-transition contexts / Zdenek Uherek and Veronika Beranská -- Giving birth in Berlin : Reproductive experiences of Polish migrant women / Izabella Main -- New urban activism in Slovakia : The case of Banská Bystrica / Alexandra Bituiíková -- Feminist and queer sex therapy : The ethnography of expert knowledge of sexuality in Poland / Agnieszka Koscianska -- Civil society and EU integration of Serbia : Toward a historical anthropology of globalizing post-socialist Europe / Marek Mikus -- On the road : Polish modernization from the perspective of the anthropology of the motorway / Waldemar Kuligowski and Agata Stanisz -- Ethnography of post-socialist rural change : Social memory, modernity, local empowerment, and internal displacement / Hana Horáková -- Dalai-Lamaism : An Orientalist construction of post-socialist consciousness / Martin Hríbek -- Afterword / Michal Buchowski and Hana Cervinkova.