Symbolic Traces of Communist Legacy in Post-Socialist Hungary

Experiences of a Generation That Lived During the Socialist Era

von Lisa Pope Fischer

218 Seiten, Hardcover

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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.

• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte
• ISBN: 9789004322110
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 29.09.2016
• Größe: 236 x 155 mm
• Verlag: Brill