Politics in color and concrete
Subtitle: socialist materialities and the middle class in Hungary
By: Krisztina Fehérváry
Series: New anthropologies of Europe
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780253009913; 9780253009944; 9780253009968
Subjects: Social conditions; Economic conditions; Civilization; Material culture; Consumption (Economics); Middle class; Post-communism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-280) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the qualities of color and concrete; title: Normal life in the former socialist city; title: Socialist realism in the socialist city; title: Socialist modern and the production of demanding citizens; title: Socialist generic and the branding of state socialism; title: Organicist modern and super-natural organicism; title: Unstable landscapes of property, morality, and status; title: The new family house and the new middle class; title: Heterotopias of the normal in private worlds; title: Epilogue.