Call for Papers
Panel P113: “Middle-class subjectivities and livelihoods in post-socialist
Europe”
http://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2016/panels.php5?PanelID=4341
14th EASA Biennial
Conference: Anthropological legacies and human futures
20-23 July 2016, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
Short Abstract
This panel explores ethnographically the (re)configuration of the middle
classes in post-socialist Eastern Europe. We ask how these (relatively) new
forms of livelihood and subjectivity can be better understood through the
theoretical lenses of our discipline.
Long Abstract
The global middle classes have become a topic of growing interest in
anthropology, a discipline that is more attentive than ever to the
structural forms of socio-economic inequalities (Heiman, Freeman and
Liechty 2012, Carrier and Kalb 2015). However, analyses of middle-class
livelihoods and subjectivities in post-socialist Europe are still rare
(Fehervary 2013). In addition, in this region, the middle classes remain
largely under-analysed in the local public and academic debates that deploy
the concept of class (Ost 2015). We suggest that the (re)configuration of
middle classness in Eastern Europe requires further attention for several
reasons: it takes place under neoliberalism, but in relation to
pre-socialist and socialist ideas and realities; it benefits from the
economic and political repositioning of Eastern Europe, but happens at a
time when new potentially challenging relationships develop across classes
and national spaces at the European and global levels.
This panel invites contributions about the middle classes in post-socialist
Europe. The participants are encouraged to take into consideration the
following questions:
• What does it mean to be middle class?
• How is middle classness imagined, performed and lived?
• How are local configurations of middle classness embedded in global and
economic processes?
• How do 'old' (pre-socialist, socialist) and 'new' (post-socialist) middle
classes relate to each other?
• How has the succession of political regimes and modes of production
impacted on individual and inter-generational conceptualisation of middle
classness?
• How do socialist and neoliberal conceptualisations of the middle class
intersect in the local and regional imagining of middle classness?
Deadline: 15 February 2016
To propose a paper, please follow this link
http://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2016/paperproposal.php5?PanelID=4341
and submit through the online system on the site.
For any inquires, do not hesitate to email the two panel convenors:
Elena Magdalena Craciun (National School of Political and Administrative
Sciences) E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Anca Simionca (Central European University)
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
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