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Last update: Mgr. Petr Skácel, DiS. (27.04.2022)
This course provides a survey of topics underlying debates on nature of geography, culture, identity, and the societies of Eastern and Central European countries. During the course, we will examine the processes and particulars of what has become known as the “transitions from socialism to capitalism”. We will address the field of postsocialist studies and Europeanization studies from an anthropological perspective: that is, exploring the daily lives of people, and how they have struggled and managed to redefine their experiences in light of the new institutions and logic of economic and social activities since the 1990s. Such perspective takes as its goal an enhanced comprehension of how lives in this part of Europe are defined, experienced and understood by those living them and what is the role of postsocialist transformation and Europeanization in these processes. In so doing, we will focus on the contradictions, paradoxes and ambiguities of post-socialism and Europeanization by looking closely at emerging forms of nationalism, kinship ties, gender relations, language use, production and consumption, identification with place, and new assumptions about identity, memory, personhood and nation. |
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Last update: doc. PhDr. Zdeněk Uherek, CSc. (26.10.2019)
Course Objectives understand the culture and social identity as a social construction, shaped by historical, political, social and cultural contexts;
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Last update: doc. Mgr. Jakub Grygar, Ph.D. (28.01.2019)
Course Requirements Class participation. The final grade for the class will be determined by:
Grading 100 - 91: A (Excellent. The student has shown excellent performance, originality and displayed an exceptional grasp of the subject.)
Deadlines May 31: Research paper (resit deadlines: June 15, June 28) |
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Last update: doc. Mgr. Jakub Grygar, Ph.D. (23.01.2022)
Requred reading BUZALKA, Juraj. 2007. Nation and Religion. The Politics of Commemorations in South-east Poland. Munster: LIT Verlag. Pp. 133-158. GUPTA, AKHIL – FERGUSON, JAMES. 1992. Beyond „Culture“: Space, Identity, and the Politics of Difference. Cultural Anthropology, 7(1): 6 – 23. HOLY, Ladislav. 1996. The Little Czech and The Great Czech Nation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 282 - 313. MACDONALD, Sharon. 2013. Memorylands: Heritage and Identity in Europe Today, London and New York, Routledge,: chapters on post-socialist Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania. MIHAI, D. 2013. Migration Patterns in Central and Eastern Europe. Study Case on Romania. Proceedings WSEAS II. MOLZ, Jennie Germann. 2004. Tasting Imagined Thailand: Authenticity and Culinary Tourism in Thai Restaurants. In: Lucy M. Long (ed.), Culinary Tourism. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, pp. 53-75. ROGERS, D. 2005. The Anthropology of Religion after Socialism, «Religion, State & Society», XXXIII (1). Pp. 5-18. VÁCLAVÍK, David, HAMPLOVÁ, and Zdeněk NEŠPOR, “Religious Situation in Contemporary Czech Society.“ Central European Journal for Contemporary Religion 2 (2): 99-122. VERDERY, Katherine. 1994. Beyond the Nation in Eastern Europe. Social Text, No. 38 (Spring, 1994), pp. 1-19. VERDERY, Katherin. 1999. Fuzzy Property: Rights, Power, and Identity in Transylvania’s Decollectivization In: Burawoy, Michael and Katherine Verdery (eds.), Uncertain Transition: Ethnographies of Change in the Postsocialist World. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield. Pp. 53-81.
Reccomended reading BERDAHL, Daphne. 1999. Where the World Ended: Re-Unification and Identity in the German Borderland. Berkeley: University of California Press. BROWN, Kate. 2005. A Biography of No Place. From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland. Cambridge: Harvard Iniversity Press. BÚRIKOVÁ, Zuzana & Daniel MILLER. Au Pair. London: Polity. BUZALKA, Juraj. 2006. Nation and Religion. The Politics of Commemoration in South-East Poland. Münster: LIT Verlag. CREED, Gerald W. 2012. Masquerade and Postsocialism. Ritual and Cultural Dispossession in Bulgaria. Indiana University Press. ČERVINKOVÁ, Hana. Playing Soldiers in Bohemia. An Ethnography of NATO Membership. Praha: SetOut. DUNN, Elizabeth. 2004. Privatizing Poland. Baby Food, Big Business, and the Remaking of Labor. Cornell University Press. FOLLIS, Karolina S. 2012. Building Fortress Europe. The Polish- Ukrainian Frontier. University of Pennsylvania Press. GHODSEE, Kristen. 2009. Muslim Lives in Eastern Europe: Gender, Ethnicity, and the Transformation of Islam in Postsocialist Bulgaria. Princeton Unoversity Press: NJ. GORDY, Eric. 1999. The Culture of Power in Serbia: Nationalism and the Destruction of Alternatives. Pennsylvania State University Press. HANN, Chris. 2006. "Not the horse we wanted!" Postsocialism, Neoliberalism, and Eurasia. Münster: LIT Verlag. HOLY, Ladislav. 1996. The Little Czech and the Great Czech Nation: National Identity and the Post-Communist Social Transformation. Cambridge University Press. KIDECKEL, David A. 2008. Getting By in Postsocialist Romania. Labor, the Body, and Working-Class. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. LEDENEVA, Alena V. 2013. Can Russia Modernise? Sistema, Power Networks, and Informal Governance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. STEWART, Michael. 1997. The Time of the Gypsies. Westview Press. TORSELLO, Davide. 2003. Trust, Property and Social Change in a Postsocialist Slovakian Village. Münster: LIT Verlag. TORSELLO, Davide. 2012. The New Environmentalism? Corruption and Civil Society in the Enlarged EU. Routledge. VERDERY, Katherine. 1997. What Was Socialism and What Comes Next? Princeton University Press. VERDERY, Katherine. 1999. The Political Lives of Dead Bodies: Reburial and Political Change. NY: Columbia University Press. |
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Last update: doc. Mgr. Jakub Grygar, Ph.D. (28.01.2019)
Lectures, seminars, fieldtrips. |