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Autore |
Hoven Bettina van |
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Titolo |
Europe : Lives in Transition / / Bettina Van Hoven, Tim Unwin |
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1-315-84762-0 |
1-317-90443-5 |
1-317-90442-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (198 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Post-communism - Europe, Eastern |
Political geography |
Geopolitics - Europe |
Group identities - Europe, Eastern |
Europe, Eastern Social conditions 1989- |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; Thinking about transition; Approach of this book; Pedagogical structure; The themes; References; 2 Transition in context: Theory in post-socialist transformations; Introduction; Liberal political economies of transition; Grounded theory and the cultural turn; Renegotiating Cold War geopolitics; Cultural memory and post-socialist identities; Theorising borderlands; Redrawing state boundaries and the cultural identities of borderlands |
Borders, identities and the return to EuropeRethinking state socialist history; Globalisation and pan-European geographies; Conclusion; Notes; Suggested reading; References; 3 Understanding transition; A 'West Side' (short) story; 'East is East'; Understanding transition; Them and Us; Defining the Other; 'I am an interesting oddity'; Conclusion; Notes; References; 4 Researching transition; Edwin Bakker; Thomas Borén; Moya Flynn; Simon Groen; Ágnes Gulyás; Kathrin Hörschelmann; Bettina van Hoven; Margareta Lelea; Carmella Pfaffenbach; Sari |
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Pöyhönen; Izabela Robinson; Alison Stenning |
Nigel SwainAurora Trif; Craig Young, Sylwia Kaczmarek and Chrissie Gibson; 5 Identities; Finding facts; Understanding terms and concepts; Identities in transition; Place identities in Lódz/Poland; Place identities in St Petersburg/Russia; Place identities in Mecklenburg-Westpommerania/the former GDR; Claiming identities in Thuringia/the former GDR; Claiming identities in Russia; Gender identities in the former GDR; Review and discussion; Perception and opinion; Notes; Suggested reading; 6 Relationships; Finding facts; Understanding terms and concepts; Relationships in transition |
Remembering the co-operativeA feeling of 'sameness'; Holding the co-operative together; Starting disintegration of the community; Disturbance in the community; Friendships; Families: children and parents; Marriage; Re-establishing relationships?; New community members; Review and discussion; Perception and opinion; Note; Suggested reading; 7 Production; Finding facts; Understanding terms and concepts; Production in transition; Regional strategies within a Special Economic Zone; Business expansion for profit; Survival strategies; Success; Struggle; Exploitation |
Restructuring (a manufacturing enterprise in Poland)Restructuring (publishing houses in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland); Positive experiences with Western management practices; Negative reactions to Western management practices; Review and discussion; Perception and opinion; Suggested reading; 8 Consumption; Finding facts; Understanding terms and concepts; Consumption in transition; Tourism and travel; Opportunity: means to develop identity; Opportunity: choice; Barrier: estrangement; Barrier: lack of money; Consuming the natural environment/Russia |
Consuming the natural environment/Poland |
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