Ethnology of the European Postsocialist Countries

Lectures present the field of anthropology of (post)socialism as a part of political and economic anthropology and focus on its history in Slovenia and elsewhere. They outline the space and history as well as offer insight into the ways of living in the former, predominantly European socialist countries. This is followed by presenting selected topics of contemporary way of living in the so-called transition countries and by a critical review of the literature, produced by domestic as well as researchers from abroad. The focus is on positionality, construction and power relations related to (post)socialism, on the connections with post-colonial research and the research of Otherness in general.

Katherine Verdery, What was socialism and what comes next? Princeton 1996: Princeton university press. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=e000xww&AN=34998…
Ildiko Erdei, Čekajući Ikeu: Potrošačka kultura u postsocializmu i pre njega. Beograd 2012: Univerzitet u Beogradu.
Nina Vodopivec, Postsocialistična tranzicija v antropološki perspektivi. V: Aleksander Lorenčič in Željko Oset, ur., Regionalni vidiki tranzicije. Ljubljana 2016: Inštitut za novejšo zgodovino, str. 33−48. [COBISS.SI-ID – 3701876]; http://hdl.handle.net/11686/43103
Tanja Petrović, Studying post-socialism in Slovenia: The state of art. Ethnologia Balkanica let. 17, 2014, str. 267–281. [COBISS.SI-ID - 17489506]
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Tatjana Thelen, Shortage, fuzzy property and other dead ends in the anthropological analysis of (post)socialism. Critique of anthropology let. 31, št. 1, 2011, str. 251–255. https://www.academia.edu/17899773/Shortage_fuzzy_property_and_other_dea…
Chris Hann, Beyond otherness: with reference to Hungarian villagers, academic colleagues, Gypsies, Eastern Europe, socialism, and anthropology at large. Working Paper 132. Halle (Saale) 2011: Max Planck institute for social anthropology. https://www.eth.mpg.de/cms/en/publications/working_papers/wp0132
Nina Vodopivec, Labirinti postsocializma: socialni spomin tekstilnih delavk in delavcev. Ljubljana 2007: Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis, Fakulteta za podiplomski humanistični študij. [COBISS.SI-ID - 235946240]
Nina Vodopivec, Tu se ne bo nikoli več šivalo: doživljanja izgube dela in propada tovarne. Ljubljana 2021: Inštitut za novejšo zgodovino. [COBISS.SI-ID - 66457603]