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Mobilities in socialist and post-socialist states, societies on the move, edited by Kathy Burrell, University of Liverpool, UK, Kathrin Hörschelmann, University of Durham, UK

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Mobilities in socialist and post-socialist states

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edited by Kathy Burrell, University of Liverpool, UK, Kathrin Hörschelmann, University of Durham, UK

societies on the move

This edited collection explores what mobility meant, and means, in the specific contexts of socialist and post-socialist Soviet and East European societies. Under the socialist regimes, mobility was at the heart of everyday interactions with the state, from controls on travel and communications mobilities to daily experiences of transport usage and the immobility of queuing for goods at times of shortages. These mobilities have been reshaped under post-socialist regimes. While the collapse of socialism heralded a liberalization of international migration and increased automobility, new experiences of poverty, unemployment, and in the case of some states, war, plus the loss of subsidized travel greatly reduced fields of mobility. Bringing together contributors from the dynamic fields of Mobilities and Socialist/Post-Socialist Studies this book uses the focus on socialist and post-socialist mobilities to investigate fundamental intersections of power, control, resistance and inequality.--, Provided by Publisher

Introduction : understanding mobility in Soviet and East European socialist and post-socialist states / Kathy Burrell, University of Liverpool (UK) and Kathrin Horschelmann, Durham University (UK) -- Communication, mobility and control in the Soviet Union after the Second World War / Larissa Zakharova, Centre National de la RechercheScientifique (France) -- Power and mobilities in socialist Romania 1964-89 / CiprianCirniala, University of Potsdam (Germany) -- Leisure and politics : soviet central tourists across the Iron Curtain / BotakozKassymbekova, Humboldt University, Berlin (Germany) -- Between limits, lures and excitement : socialist Romanian holidays abroad during the 1960s-1980s / Adelina Oana Stefan, University of Bucharest (Romania) -- Mooring in socialist automobility : garage areas / TauriTuvikene, University College London (UK) and Tallinn University (Estonia) -- "Women here are like at the time of enver [Hoxha]" : socialist and post-socialist gendered mobility in Albanian society / Julie Vullnetari, University of Sussex (UK) and Russell King, University of Sussex (UK) -- The view from the back of the warrior : mobility, privilege and power during the international intervention in Bosnia-Herzegovina / Catherine Baker, University of Hull (UK) -- Travel and the state after the "fall" : everyday modes of transport in post-socialist Serbia / Marina Simi, University of Belgrade (Serbia) -- Urban public transport and the state in post-soviet Central Asia / Wladimir Sgibnev, Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, Leipzig (Germany) -- The geography of daily mobilities in post-socialist European countries : evidence from Slovenia / David Bole, Anton Melik Geographical Institute (Slovenia) and MatejGabrovec, Anton Melik Geographical Institute (Slovenia) -- Life worlds of deceleration : reflections on the "new mobilities paradigm" through ethnographic research in post-socialist Germany / Ina Dietzsch, University of Basel, (Switzerland)