History after the end: post‐socialist difference in a (post)modern world

Hörschelmann, Kathrin

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“…command economy which trained people to resort to informal resources outside official channels' is troubling. These analysts of CEE informal food production invoked the evolutionary and deterministic conceptualisation of post-socialist societies (Hörschelmann, 2002) as having been 'inferior in space and behind the time' (Macnaughton and Urry, 1998, p. 149). …”

Section: Food Self-provisioning In Post-socialist Europe: Survival Stmentioning

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An unsustainable state: Contrasting food practices and state policies in the Czech Republic

Jehlička

Smith

2011

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This paper brings together consideration of food policies and practices and of post-socialist transition to raise neglected questions about means of nurturing more sustainable food systems in the developed world. The last three decades have been marked by the growing salience of food as a political and scholarly concern. While market-based alternative food systems have been heralded for their potential to promote environmental sustainability, the benefits of non-market practices such as household food self-provisioning and barter have been assumed rather than being the focus of research. In the western context, both types of food consumption have positive connotations. Although food self-provisioning in European post-socialist societies is a more wide-spread practice than in western societies, it has been on the periphery of research. The existing literature has conceptualised them as 'coping strategies' or as a legacy of irregular supply of goods in the state socialist era.Drawing on empirical research in the Czech Republic, we are proposing a novel approach to the phenomenon of household food production in post-socialist societies as a practice compliant with principles of sustainability. First, we highlight the large extent and social inclusivity of food self-provisioning in Czech society to demonstrate how post-socialist societies are a repository of a rich set of sustainability-promoting consumption practices in relation to food systems. Second, we show that international and domestic policy actors in these societies have ignored these alternative, socially inclusive and environmentally effective practices in favour of far less effective 1 2 market-based sustainability oriented food policy initiatives. The paper promotes a more integrated view of non-market and market approaches in the pursuit of more sustainable food systems.

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Section: Food Self-provisioning In Post-socialist Europe: Survival Stmentioning

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An unsustainable state: Contrasting food practices and state policies in the Czech Republic

Jehlička

Smith

2011

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“…In research on post-socialist societies, this reluctance to engage with the work and methods of ethnographers has been even more pronounced. Although geographers have been amongst the most ardent critiques of "transitology" (Pickles and Smith, 1998;Pickles and Unwin, 2004;Bradshaw and Stenning, 2004;van Hoven, 2004;Hörschelmann 2002), few have engaged in a sustained way with existing ethnographic research or have adopted it as a methodological approach to study the economic, political, social and cultural changes associated with post-socialist transformation (but see Pickles 2001;Dunn, 2004;Boren, 2005;Hörschelmann and Schäfer, 2005;Smith and Stenning, forthcoming;Stenning 2005). This is particularly surprising given the quantity of work in ethnography and anthropology on post-socialist change in recent years (Hann, 2002;Berdahl et al, 2000;Bridger and Pine, 1998;Burawoy and Verdery, 1999).…”

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Ethnographies of postsocialist change

Hörschelmann

Stenning

2008

Progress in Human Geography

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In this paper, we examine the value of ethnographic research for developing a critical area studies approach that promotes cosmopolitan scholarship and contributes to the decentring of universal knowledge claims. We focus on the potential of ethnographic research on postsocialist change to form part of such a re-envisaged, critical area studies. The paper seeks to demonstrate to what extent ethnographic research not only offers a better understanding of the social and cultural practices through which postsocialist transformations are lived and negotiated, but also produces new conceptual insights on the basis of engaging with empirical complexity. Problems of researcher positionality, the politics of representation, methodology and ethics are discussed in relation to recent critiques of anthropological writing and research. We draw on Massey's (2005) concept of space-time and Robinson's (2003) and Gibson-Graham's (2004) proposals for a postcolonial, critical area studies to identify ways of reimagining ethnography as a mode of engagement rather than observation and of producing rather than surveying difference.

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“…Some scholars have made serious attempts to undermine this state of affairs (e.g. Hörschelmann, ; Stenning and Hörschelmann, ; Ferenčuhová, ; Petrovici, ; Tuvikene, ) but they are fighting an uneven battle against a resilient teleology. Also, treating the return to Europe/normality as something that is projected upon the region entirely from the outside would be a misconception (Ferenčuhová, ).…”

Section: The Pitfalls Of ‘Post‐socialism’ and ‘Transition’mentioning

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Three Metals and the ‘Post‐Socialist City’: Reclaiming the Peripheries of Urban Knowledge

Gentile

2018

Int J Urban Regional Res

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Urban theory has long been in the grip of a handful of cities and, despite the recent recalibration of the catalogue of cities that inform it, the emerging geographies of urban studies remain skewed, at the expense of cities often referred to as ‘post‐socialist’. This essay considers the notion of the ‘post‐socialist city’, suggesting that it inadvertently poses limits to our imagination, parochializing research, pauperizing its theoretical capacity, and limiting its potential for comparison by automatically organizing differences into the preconceived categories of what it is and what it is not. It is proposed that the concept (re)produces artificial boundaries that consign ‘post‐socialist’ urban research to the peripheries of urban knowledge, joining the vast ranks of ordinary cities that fail to meet the criteria of relevance or admissibility embedded in the hegemonic theorizations stemming (mainly) from the northwest quadrant of the world map. Using the example of an extremely peripheral city in Kazakhstan, this essay argues that research on the ‘post‐socialist city’ should turn its focus to relations, networks and flows while simultaneously dropping the ‘post‐socialist’, which (re)produces differences vis‐à‐vis the supposed normality of the ‘Western’ city––differences that are either imagined, exaggerated, misrepresented, outdated or imposed.

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History after the end: post‐socialist difference in a (post)modern world

Cited by 34 publications

References 14 publications

An unsustainable state: Contrasting food practices and state policies in the Czech Republic

An unsustainable state: Contrasting food practices and state policies in the Czech Republic

Ethnographies of postsocialist change

Three Metals and the ‘Post‐Socialist City’: Reclaiming the Peripheries of Urban Knowledge

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