Remembering the Neoliberal Turn

ISBN-13: 9781032553337 / Twarda / 2023 / 352 str.

Opis

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.

Recenzje

"This revolutionary book goes back to the long-forgotten origin of memory studies by considering people's economic situations as the main frameworks of remembrance. It　draws a very much needed and urgent agenda not only for Eastern Europe but for the whole world."

- Sarah Gensburger, French National Center for Scientific Research - Sciences Po Paris

Spis treści

 

1. Neoliberalism, Eastern Europe and collective memory: setting the framework

Joanna Wawrzyniak and Veronika Pehe　

Part I. Founding myths and counter-narratives of the transformation

2. Shock therapy mythologies: contested memories of Poland’s Balcerowicz Plan

Florian Peters

3. A recurring bone of contention: the memory politics of Slovakia’s economic transformation
   Matej Ivančík
4. From communism to neoliberalism: conflated memories of Bulgaria’s corrupted transition

Tom Junes and Ivo Iliev

5. Political uses of memory of the early period of the post-Soviet transformations in contemporary Russia

Olga Malinova

6. Regimes of truth and the discontent of memories: self-deception and denial during the growing together of the two Germanies
   Thomas Lindenberger

Part II. Vernacular memories and biographical narratives

7. Economic change, skills and the shifting horizons of social recognition: East German and Czech care workers remember the disruptive 1990s

Till Hilmar

8. ‘The lost years’: gender, citizenship and economic change in Romania during the long 1990s

Jill Massino

9. 'There was no more work, no more life, no more anything…': Hungarian workers’ memories of the neoliberal transition

Tibor Valuch

10. How the Polish business elite remembers the neoliberal turn

Kamil Lipiński and Joanna Wawrzyniak

11. The neoliberal turn in biographical narratives of young people in Poland

Adam Mrozowicki and Justyna Kajta

Part III. Cultural memory of economic change

12. Privatization comedies as media of memory of the Czech(oslovak) economic transformation
    Veronika Pehe
13. Screening the criminal underworld of capitalist nation-state making: Dogs and memory of the 1990s in Poland

Saygun Gökarıksel

14. The moral right to economic crime: remembering the Russian 1990s in a tragic mode in Alexei Ivanov’s Nasty Weather [Nenast’e]

Ksenia Robbe

15. Films without a viewer: Ukrainian filmmakers and memory of the neoliberal turn in the post-Soviet space

Olga Gontarska and Veronika Pehe

16. The German ‘floating gap’: post-unification memory in literary fiction

Joanna Jabłkowska and Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska

17. ‘We’re rushing towards capitalism like the Titanic towards a fucking iceberg’: representations of East German (social) transformation in films and TV series from the 2000s until today

          Anna Lux

  18. Memories of the neoliberal turn in comparative perspective: a research agenda

         Veronika Pehe and Joanna Wawrzyniak

O autorze

Veronika Pehe is a researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, where she leads the Research Group for Historical Transformation Studies. She specializes in cultural history, memory and film and television.

Joanna Wawrzyniak is associate professor in sociology and director of the Center for Research on Social Memory at the University of Warsaw. She is vice chair of the EU COST Action Slow Memory: Transformative Practices for Times of Uneven and Accelerating Change.