Remembering the Neoliberal Turn. Economic Change and Collective Memory in Eastern Europe after 1989

0575512 - ÚSD 2024 RIV GB eng B - Monography
Pehe, Veronika (ed.) - Wawrzyniak, J. (ed.)
Remembering the Neoliberal Turn. Economic Change and Collective Memory in Eastern Europe after 1989.
London: Routledge, 2024. 334 s. European Remembrance and Solidarity. ISBN 978-1-032-55333-7
EU Projects: European Commission(XE) 749475 - ATFM
Institutional support: RVO:68378114
Keywords : memory * neoliberalism * Eastern Europe
OECD category: History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

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.

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