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Agriculture et ruralité en Europe centrale
Sortis de l'économie collectiviste, au début de la décennie 1990, les territoires ruraux d'Europe centrale traversent des mutations de grande ampleur. Comment interpréter ces mutations ? En dépit du déclin démographique et d'un recul de l'emploi agricole, le maintien d'une forte ruralité reste un trait spécifique. Mais des restructurations sont à l'œuvre : tout d'abord, la diversification des activités économiques, qui se traduit par des usages inédits de l'espace agricole. Par ailleurs, de nouveaux rapports sociaux contribuent à différencier ces territoires, où zones de prospérité relative côtoient poches de pauvreté, ce qui tisse un rural en mosaïque. En outre, on assiste peut-être à la naissance d'un mode de gouvernance alternatif, à la croisée des politiques d'action publique et des initiatives endogènes. Dans cet ouvrage, les auteurs analysent et cartographient une ruralité dont la polymorphie ne cesse de s'accuser. Cette entreprise est nécessaire, à un moment où se met en place une nouvelle politique de développement rural au niveau européen.
The Vanishing Hectare
In most countries in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, the fall of communism opened up the possibility for individuals to acquire land. Based on Katherine Verdery's extensive fieldwork between 1990 and 2001, The Vanishing Hectare explores the importance of land and land ownership to the people of one Transylvanian community, Aurel Vlaicu. Verdery traces how collectivized land was transformed into private property, how land was valued, what the new owners were able to do with it, and what it signified to each of the different groups vying for land rights. Verdery tells this story about transforming socialist property forms in a global context, showing the fruitfulness of conceptuali...
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Life Writing and Politics of Memory in Eastern Europe
This volume addresses the issues of remembering and performing the past in Eastern European ex-communist states in the context of multiplication of the voices of the past. The book analyzes the various ways in which memory and remembrance operate; it does so by using different methods of recollecting the past, from oral history to cultural and historical institutions, and by drawing on various political and cultural theories and concepts. Through well-documented case studies the volume showcases the plurality of approaches available for analyzing the relationship between memory and narrative from an interdisciplinary and international perspective.
Activists Forever?
Using a global array of case studies, this collection explores the consequences of political involvement on an individual's life.
Theatres Of Violence
Massacres and mass killings have always marked if not shaped the history of the world and as such are subjects of increasing interest among historians. The premise underlying this collection is that massacres were an integral, if not accepted part (until quite recently) of warfare, and that they were often fundamental to the colonizing process in the early modern and modern worlds. Making a deliberate distinction between ‘massacre’ and ‘genocide’, the editors call for an entirely separate and new subject under the rubric of ‘Massacre Studies’, dealing with mass killings that are not genocidal in intent. This volume offers a reflection on the nature of mass killings and extreme violence across regions and across centuries, and brings together a wide range of approaches and case studies.
A Taste for Oppression
Belarus has emerged from communism in a unique manner as an authoritarian regime. The author, who has lived in Belarus for several years, highlights several mechanisms of tyranny, beyond the regime’s ability to control and repress, which should not be underestimated. The book immerses the reader in the depths of the Belarusian countryside, among the kolkhozes and rural communities at the heart of this authoritarian regime under Alexander Lukashenko, and offers vivid descriptions of the everyday life of Belarusians. It sheds light on the reasons why part of the population supports Lukashenko and takes a fresh look at the functioning of what has been called 'the last dictatorship in Europe'.
People and Agrarian Landscapes: An Archaeology of Postclassical Local Societies in the Western Mediterranean
This book provides an overview of the driving theories, methodologies and main topics that have been addressed to date regarding agrarian archaeology. The text is presented as an introduction for students, a critical reading guide for other scholars, and an informative instrument aimed at a wide audience.
