Symbolic traces of communist legacy in post-socialist Hungary
| Titel: | Symbolic traces of communist legacy in post-socialist Hungary : experiences of a generation that lived during the socialist era / by Lisa Pope Fischer |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Leiden; Boston : Brill, [2016] |
| Umfang: | XIII, 217 Seiten : Illustrationen ; 24 cm |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
Central and Eastern Europe ; 7 |
| ISBN: | 9789004322110 ; 9789004328648 |
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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.
