In this paper, I consider the issue of postcolonialism and postsocialism from the perspective
of the discipline of anthropology. I argue that the recent efforts of anthropologists at bringing …

Now that nearly twenty years have passed since the collapse of the Soviet bloc there is a
need to understand what has taken place since that historic date and where we are at the …

We focus on describing some of the effects of austerity capitalism in the public educational
sector in Poland, a country that was a part of the Soviet bloc from WWII and experienced …

In this paper, I draw on the approach to the study of “actually existing liberalisms” with an
example from contemporary urban east-central Europe. I focus on the city of Wroclaw, a …

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In the Czech Republic, post-1989 social change has been strongly informed by politics on
all levels. The introduction of democracy has been accompanied by serious contradictions …

The article is based on the author's ethnographic fieldwork in the Czech Armed Forces
(2001–2002) in which she focused on the process of military professionalization—a set of …

This article deals with the relationship between the democratic transformations in
Czechoslovakia after 1918 and 1989 and the armed forces. The democratic ideal of …

What is the place of infrastructures in understanding the post-Cold War political transition in
Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)? This chapter uses the lens of infrastructure to …

Transnational migration and transnational entrepreneurship are increasingly important
aspects of the contemporary world, whose spread is perhaps surpassed only by the growth …