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Economies of Favour after Socialism.
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- ISBN: 9780191511097
- ISBN: 0191511099
- ISBN: 9780192515124
- ISBN: 0192515128
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (254 pages)
- Publisher: Oxford : OUP Oxford, 2016.
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- Gifts and Favours in a `House Societý
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- Cover; Economies of Favour after Socialism; Copyright; Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; List of Figuresand Boxes; Notes on Contributors; 1: Introduction-Re-imagining Economies (after Socialism): Ethics, Favours, and Moral Sentiments; Ethics, Favours, and Moral Sentiments; Beyond Political Economies; Towards a Semiotics of Favours; References; 2: The Ambivalence of Favour: Paradoxes of Russiaś Economy of Favours; A Typology of Favours; The Substantive Ambivalence of Favours: `No Synthesis;́ Functional Ambivalence: Clashing Demands and the Role of Networks.Normative Ambivalence: The Double Standards and the Phenomenological LensThe Implications of Ambivalence for Research Methodologies; Acknowledgements; References; 3: A New Look at Favours: The Case of Post-Socialist Higher Education; The Political-Economic Context of Favour in Post-Socialist Russia; Favours; A Favour and Its Ramifications; Favours in the Market Economy; Favours and Power; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; 4: Giving, Taking, and Getting By: Help and Indifference in Moscowś Temporary Housing Market; The `Apartment Problem;́ Specifying Jardam; Making Home in Moscow.Cutting the Network? Balancing Help and IndifferenceConclusion; References; 5: The Anti-Favour: Ideasthesia, Aesthetics, and Obligation in Southwest China; Favours, Obligations, and the Art of Social Relations; Ideasthesia and the Nuosu Warriorś Aesthetic; Keeping Secrets for Life; Braving Ideasthesia: The Case of an Imprisoned Warrior; Beyond Favours: The Force of Duty, Obligation, and Sacrifice; References; 6: The Human Economy of Pálinka in Hungary: A Case Study in Longue Durée Lubrication; The Human Economies of Socialism and Post-Socialism; Alcohol in Pre-socialist Society.Lubricating SocialismFast Forward to the Present; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; 7: Making History, Making Politics: Socialist and Post-Socialist Elite Economies of Favour in Bulgaria and Ukraine; Distinguishing Elite Networks from other Economies of Favour; Elite Connections in Bulgaria; Understanding Elite Economies of Favour in History; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; 8: Interior Spectacles: The Art of the Informal among Bootleg Miners in Wałbrzych, Poland; Bootleg Mines and Salvage Fever; Law, Lawlessness, and the Area in Between; The Art of the Informal.Interior Spectacles: Economies of Favour as PerformanceConclusion; References; 9: A Good Deed is Not a Crime: Moral Cosmologies of Favours in Muslim Bosnia; From Economies of Favour Towards an Economy of Good Deeds; Away from (Bosnian) Informal Economies; Economies of Good Deeds in Muslim Bosnia; Mujoś story; Friends of God are just merciful; `Sevap cant́ be illegal;́ Conclusion: Good Deeds as Favours; References; 10: The `Shadows óf Informality in Rural Poland; The `Shadows óf Informality: A Strathernian Detour; Scheming and Making Connections: Craft after Socialism.
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David Henig, Lecturer in Social Anthropology, School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent,Nicolette Makovicky, Lecturer in Russian and Eastern European Studies, School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, University of Oxford
Nicolette Makovicky is Lecturer of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Oxford. She is the editor of Neoliberalism, Personhood, Postsocialism: Enterprising Selves in Changing Economies (Ashgate, 2014) and has published extensively on informal economic activity in Central Europe.
David Henig is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent. His research, conducted mainly in the Balkans and Central Asia, focuses largely on vernacular Islam, sacred landscape, exchange theory, and more recently on linking anthropology with global transnational history, diplomacy, international relations, and geopolitics. He has authored numerous publications on Islam, dervish orders, Muslim politics, and post-socialism.