Symbolic Traces of Communist Legacy in Post-Socialist Hungary

Experiences of a Generation That Lived During the Socialist Era
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-90-04-32211-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 218 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Reihe: Central and Eastern Europe

In Symbolic Traces of Communist Legacy in Post-socialist Hungary, Lisa Pope Fischer shows how personal practices symbolically refurbish elements from the Communist era to fit present-day challenges. A generation who lived through the socialist period adapt to post-socialist Hungary in a global context. Life histories weave together case studies of gift giving, procurement strategies, harvest ritual, healthcare, and socialist kitsch to illustrate turns towards mysticism, neo-traditionalism, nostalgia, nationalism, and shifts in time-place. People’s unrequited past longing for future possibilities of a Western society facilitate desires for a lost way of life. Not only does this work gain understanding of an aging population’s life experiences and the politics of everyday practices, but also social change in a modern global world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pope Fischer, Lisa

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Über Autor(innen)

Lisa Pope Fischer, Ph.D. (2001), University of California, Los Angeles, is an Anthropology Professor at New York City College of Technology (CUNY).