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Uncertain Transition : Ethnographies of Change in the Postsocialist World, Paperback / softback Book

Uncertain Transition : Ethnographies of Change in the Postsocialist World Paperback / softback

Edited by Michael Burawoy, Katherine Verdery

Paperback / softback

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The ethnographies collected here offer a surprising and compelling picture of change in Russia and Eastern Europe found in no other book to date.

Looking at the everyday processes by which individuals and groups forge new lives, the authors challenge the idea that we can understand this transformation by the predictable models_whether capitalism, post-socialism, modernity, or postmodernity. The collection brings together a wide-ranging group of authors from sociology, anthropology, and political science to reveal the complex relationships that still exist between the former socialist world and the world today.

Through evocative ethnographic research and writing, they bring to light the unintended consequences of change and show how the 'slates' of the past enter the present not as legacies_but as novel adaptations.

Often what appear as 'restorations' of patterns familiar from socialism are something quite different: direct responses to the new market initiatives.

By showing the unexpected ways in which these new patterns are emerging, this book charts a new and important course for the study of post-socialist transition.

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