Remembering the Neoliberal Turn Economic Change and Collective Memory in Eastern Europe after 1989 1st Edition by Veronika Pehe, Joanna Wawrzyniak ISBN 9781000933642 1000933644

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ISBN 10:  1000933644

ISBN 13: 9781000933642

Author: Veronika Pehe, Joanna Wawrzyniak

This book discusses how societies, groups and individuals remember and make sense of global neoliberal change in Eastern Europe. Such an investigation is all the more timely as the 1990s are increasingly looked to for answers explaining the populist and nationalist turn across the globe.

The volume shows how the key processes that impacted many lives across the social spectrum in Eastern Europe, such as deindustrialization, privatization, restitution and abrupt social reorganization, are collectively remembered across society today and how memory narratives of the 1990s contribute to current identities and political climate. This volume establishes the memory of economic transformation as a research focus in its own right. It investigates different levels of memory, from the national through the local to the cultural, analysing key myths of the transformation, giving special recognition to the social space and vernacular memories of the transformation period and reflecting on how the changes of the 1990s are mediated in cultural representations.

Given the book’s interdisciplinary scope that covers several fields, it will prove to be of interest to those working in memory studies, contemporary history, sociology, East European area studies and literary and film studies. It will also serve as a significant point of reference for those researching the interdisciplinary and rapidly expanding field of transformation studies and thus is an invaluable source across different fields.

Table of contents: 

Chapter 1: Neoliberalism, Eastern Europe and collective memory  
Part I: Founding myths and counter-narratives of the transformation  
Chapter 2: Shock therapy mythologies  
Chapter 3: A recurring bone of contention  
Chapter 4: From communism to neoliberalism  
Chapter 5: Political uses of memory of the early period of the post-Soviet transformations in contemporary Russia  
Chapter 6: Regimes of truth and the discontent of memories  
Part II: Vernacular memories and biographical narratives  
Chapter 7: Economic change, skills and the shifting horizons of social recognition  
Chapter 8: ‘The lost years’  
Chapter 9: ‘There was no more work, no more life, no more anything…’  
Chapter 10: How the Polish business elite remembers the neoliberal turn  
Chapter 11: The neoliberal turn in biographical narratives of young people in Poland  
Part III: Cultural memory of economic change  
Chapter 12: Privatization comedies as media of memory of the Czech(oslovak) economic transformation  
Chapter 13: Screening the criminal underworld of capitalist nation-state making  
Chapter 14: The moral right to economic crime  
Chapter 15: Films without a viewer  
Chapter 16: The German ‘floating gap’  
Chapter 17: ‘We’re rushing towards capitalism like the Titanic towards a fucking iceberg’  
Chapter 18: Memories of the neoliberal turn in comparative perspective

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