Overview
Provides a cross-disciplinary analysis of cultural change that documents the most recent conditions and developments in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Brings together important conversations on literature, visual arts, popular culture, collective memory, ethnicity, minority cultures, and activism
Analyzes many of the most current, critical realities in the region, including nationalism, border conflict, and gender activism
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Religion and Memory
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Consumption, Popular Culture, and Media
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Literary Transformations
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Political and Activist Cultures
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Keywords
- Multiculturalism in Polish Post-Enlargement National Identity
- Europeanness and Authenticity
- Slavs and Tatars
- Migrant-Phobia in Russia
- Neglected Discourses of the Human Race
- Racial Diversification
- Architecture and Ideology in Post-Soviet Development
- Islamic Perspective of Human Rights
- Consumption and Popular Culture
- Global Popular Culture for Local Infrastructures
- Changes in Polish Eating Practices
- Cultures of Political Activism
- Current Cultural Representations of Gender
- Queer Politics in Neoliberal Poland
- Upper Silesia
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Susan C. Pearce holds her PhD in Sociology from the New School for Social Research and is Associate Professor of Sociology at East Carolina University in North Carolina, United States. She has served on the faculties of Gettysburg College; University of Gdansk, Poland; and West Virginia University. Among her research interests are sociology of culture, human rights, race, social movements, immigration, and gender. She is co-author of the book Immigration and Women: Understanding the American Experience (with Elizabeth J. Clifford and Reena Tandon) and co-editor of the books Mosaics of Change: The First Decade of Life in the New Eastern Europe (with Eugenia Sojka); and Istanbul: Living with Difference in a Global City (with Nora Fisher-Onar).
Eugenia Sojka, Ph.D., D. Litt., is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Literary Studies and Institute of Cultural Studies, University of Silesia, Poland, as well as Adjunct Professor at the Department of English, UFV, Canada. She holds a Ph.D. in English with a specialization in Canadian literature from Memorial University of Newfoundland. Her interests focus on Indigenous and minority literatures and cultures in Canada and Upper Silesia, Poland. She is the author of numerous journal publications in the areas of Canadian and English Studies and critical theory. She is also the editor and co-editor of the books: (De)Constructing Canadianness. Myth of the Nation and Its Discontents; Mosaics of Change: The First Decade of Life in the New Eastern Europe (with Susan C. Pearce); Embracing Otherness: Canadian Minority Discourses in Transcultural Perspectives (with Tomasz Sikora); and Państwo, Naród, Tożsamość w Dyskursach Kulturowych Kanady [State, Nation, Identity in Canadian Cultural Discourses] (with M.Buchholtz). As a Director of Canadian Studies Centre at the University of Silesia, she organized and co-organized conferences and workshops, as well as many lectures and readings by Canadian writers, artists, and academics.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cultural Change in East-Central European and Eurasian Spaces
Book Subtitle: Post-1989 Revisions and Re-imaginings
Editors: Susan C. Pearce, Eugenia Sojka
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63197-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-63196-3Published: 06 March 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-63199-4Published: 07 March 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-63197-0Published: 05 March 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 274
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 38 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociology of Culture, Cultural Studies, Cultural Policy and Politics