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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “laura assmuth”
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  • Migration and Families in East and North Europe

    Translocal Lifelines

    Edited by Laura Assmuth, Marit Aure, Marina Hakkarainen, Pihla Maria Siim ...
    Series series Studies in Migration and Diaspora
    This book explores the phenomenon of familyhood across borders, examining the experience of translocal familyhood and the manner in which lifelines in and between countries are formed when individual family members spend long periods away from home. Drawing on long-term ethnographic research, it considers the emotions, social relations, materialities and discourses that occur within family lives ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Translocal Childhoods and Family Mobility in East and North Europe

    Edited by Laura Assmuth, Marina Hakkarainen, Aija Lulle, Pihla Maria Siim ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This collection explores mobile childhoods: from Latvia and Estonia to Finland; from Latvia to the United Kingdom; from Russia to Finland; and cyclical mobility by the Roma between Romania and Finland. The chapters examine how east-to-north European family mobility brings out different kinds of multilocal childhoods. The children experience unequal starting points and further twists throughout ... Read more

    $141.99 CAD

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    Past and Present

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    A panoramic, interdisciplinary survey of Russian lives and "a must-read for any scholar engaging with Russian culture" ( The Russian Review).In this interdisciplinary collection of essays, distinguished scholars survey the cultural practices, power relations, and behaviors that characterized Russian daily life from pre-revolutionary times through the post-Soviet present. Microanalyses and ... Read more

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  • Remembering Utopia

    The Culture of Everyday Life in Socialist Yugoslavia

    Edited by Breda Luthar, Maruša Pušnik ...
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  • Czech Feminisms

    Perspectives on Gender in East Central Europe

    Edited by Iveta Jusová, Jirina Šiklová ...
    Sixteen essays "apply the intersectional theory in an inspiring way in the analysis of gender issues in the past and in contemporary Czech society" ( Aspasia).In this wide-ranging study of women's and gender issues in the pre- and post-1989 Czech Republic, contributors engage with current feminist debates and theories of nation and identity to examine the historical and cultural transformations of ... Read more

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  • Marxism in the Chinese Revolution

    by Arif Dirlik ...
    Series series State & Society in East Asia
    Representing a lifetime of research and writing by noted historian Arif Dirlik, the essays collected here explore developments in Chinese socialism and the issues that have occupied historians of the Chinese revolution for the past three decades. Dirlik engages Chinese socialism critically but with sympathy for the aspirations of revolutionaries who found the hope of social, political, and ... Read more

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  • The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia

    Engaging in everyday struggle

    by Alexandrina Vanke ...
    Despite the intense processes of deindustrialisation around the world, the working class continues to play an important role in post-industrial societies. However, working-class people are often stigmatised, morally judged and depicted negatively in dominant discourses.This book challenges stereotypical representations of workers, building on research into the everyday worlds of working-class and ... Read more

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  • Tourism as Memory-Making

    Russian Tourism in the Shadow of Empire

    by Alena Pfoser ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Until recently the Russian Federation used to be one of the largest markets for outbound travel. Among Russians’ favourite destinations were cities that used to be part of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, and are now located in the independent nation-states bordering Russia. This open access bookprovides an empirically rich and conceptually sophisticated account of the mnemonic ... Read more

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  • Feminist Antifascism

    Counterpublics of the Common

    by Ewa Majewska ...
    Feminism as the bulwark against fascismIn this exciting, innovative work, Polish feminist philosopher Ewa Majewska proposes a specifically feminist politics of antifascism. Mixing theoretical discussion with engaging reflections on personal experiences, Majewska proposes what she calls “counterpublics of the common” and “weak resistance,” offering an alternative to heroic forms of subjectivity ... Read more

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  • Autobiographies of Transformation

    Lives in Central and Eastern Europe

    Edited by Mike Keen, Janusz Mucha ...
    Series series Studies in European Sociology
    Autobiographies of Transformation is a completely unique history of sociology in Central and Eastern Europe in the post-Communist era.Through the autobiographies of ten key sociological witnesses from the region, the sociological imagination is turned upon itself, resulting in a compelling and revealing account of the struggles, triumphs, and continuing challenges faced. The sociologists examined ... Read more

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  • Queer Encounters with Communist Power

    Non-Heterosexual Lives and the State in Czechoslovakia, 1948-1989

    by Vera Sokolová ...
    In the repressive context of East European Communist regimes, how did young girls and boys come to realize their sexuality? What did they do with that self-awareness—and later on, as adults, what strategies did they employ in their dealings with the regime? Queer Encounters with Communist Power answers these questions as it interweaves a groundbreaking queer oral history project with meticulous, ... Read more

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  • Critical Approaches to Art, Race and Coloniality in Eastern Europe

    Edited by Dorota Jagoda Michalska, Marta Zboralska ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
    Building on recent scholarship that challenges the supposed historical isolation of Eastern European art from the colonial matrix of power, this book responds to the sometimes uncritical application of established Western postcolonial and decolonial theories to the region’s visual production.Instead, it advocates for more nuanced, historically grounded methodologies sensitive to Eastern Europe’s ... Read more

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