Remembering the neoliberal turn : economic change and collective memory in Eastern Europe after 1989 / edited by Veronika Pehe and Joanna Wawrzyniak

This book discusses how societies, groups and individuals remember and make sense of global neoliberal change in Eastern Europe. Such an investigation is all the more timely as the 1990s are increasingly looked to for answers explaining the populist and nationalist turn across the globe. The volume...

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Kolejni autorzy:Pehe, Veronika (Redaktor)
Wawrzyniak, Joanna (Redaktor)
Format: Książka
Język:English
Wydane:London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024
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Seria:European remembrance and solidarity
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Neoliberalism, Eastern Europe and collective memory : setting the framework Joanna Wawrzyniak and Veronika Pehe
Part I. Founding myths and counter-narratives of the transformation
Shock therapy mythologies : contested memories of Poland's Balcerowicz Plan Florian Peters
A recurring bone of contention : the memory politics of Slovakia's economic transformation Matej Ivančík
From communism to neoliberalism : conflated memories of Bulgaria's corrupted transition Tom Junes and Ivo Iliev
Political uses of memory of the early period of the post-Soviet transformations in contemporary Russia Olga Malinova
Regimes of truth and the discontent of memories : self-deception and denial during the growing together of the two Germanies Thomas Lindenberger
Part II. Vernacular memories and biographical narratives
Economic change, skills and the shifting horizons of social recognition : East German and Czech care workers remember the disruptive 1990s Till Hilmar
'The lost years' : gender, citizenship and economic change in Romania during the long 1990s Jill Massino
'There was no more work, no more life, no more anything...' : Hungarian workers' memories of the neoliberal transition Tibor Valuch
How the Polish business elite remembers the neoliberal turn Kamil Lipiński and Joanna Wawrzyniak
The neoliberal turn in biographical narratives of young people in Poland Adam Mrozowicki and Justyna Kajta
Part III. Cultural memory of economic change
Privatization comedies as media of memory of the Czech(oslovak) economic transformation Veronika Pehe
Screening the criminal underworld of capitalist nation-state making : Dogs and memory of the 1990s in Poland Saygun Gökarıksel
The moral right to economic crime : remembering the Russian 1990s in a tragic mode in Alexei Ivanov's Nasty Weather [Nenast'ye] Ksenia Robbe
Films without a viewer : Ukrainian filmmakers and memory of the neoliberal turn in the post-Soviet space Olga Gontarska and Veronika Pehe
The German 'floating gap' : post-unification memory in literary fiction Joanna Jabłkowska and Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska
'We're rushing towards capitalism like the Titanic towards a fucking iceberg' : representations of East German (social) transformation in films and TV series from the 2000s until today Anna Lux
Memories of the neoliberal turn in comparative perspective : a research agenda Veronika Pehe and Joanna Wawrzyniak.