Identity and Nation Building in Everyday Post-Socialist Life (Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series)

By: Abel Polese and Jeremy Morris and Emilia Pawłusz and Oleksandra Seliverstova

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Synopsis: This book explores the function of the “everyday” in the formation, consolidation and performance of national, sub-national and local identities in the former socialist region. Based on extensive original research including fieldwork, the book demonstrates how the study of everyday and mundane practices is a meaningful and useful way of understanding the socio-political processes of identity formation both at the top and bottom level of a state. The book covers a wide range of countries including the Baltic States, Ukraine, Russia, the Caucasus and Central Asia, and considers “everyday” banal practices, including those related to consumption, kinship, embodiment, mobility, music, and the use of objects and artifacts. Overall, the book draws on, and contributes to, theory; and shows how the process of nation-building is not just undertaken by formal actors, such as the state, its institutions and political elites.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781351735438
Related ISBNs:: 9781315185880, 9781138736412, 9781138736412
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 04/29/19
Copyrighted By:: selection and editorial matter, Abel Polese, Jeremy Morris, Emilia Paw
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Social Studies
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.