BOOK LAUNCH
Please join us for the launch of the volume Economies of Favour after Socialism (David Henig and Nicolette makovicky, Oxford University Press, Dec 2016) at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Common Ground, Wilkins Building, UCL, WC1E 6BT, on Thursday the 19th of January from 6:30 pm (for directions see http://www.ucl.ac.uk/maps/south-wing.)
Scholars of post-socialist politics and society have often used 'favour' as a by-word for corruption and clientelism. The contributors to this volume treat favours, and the doing of favours, as a distinct mode of acting, rather than as a form of 'masked' economic exchange or simply an expression of goodwill. They argue that favours do not operate 'outside' or 'beyond' the economic sphere, but rather that they constitute a distinct mode of action which has economic consequences - without being fully explicable in terms of transactional cost-benefit analysis.
Casting their comparative net from post-socialist Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe; to the former Soviet Union, Mongolia, and post-Maoist China, the contributors to this volume show how gratuitous behaviour shapes a plethora of different actions, practices, and judgments across religious and political life, imaginative practices, and local moral economies.
Please see here for more on the launch event https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/fringe-centre/events and here for more information on the volume and reviews :https://global.oup.com/academic/product/economies-of-favour-after-socialism-9780199687411?cc=gb&lang=en&
Dr. Nicolette Makovicky
Lecturer in Russian and East European Studies
New Book - Economies of Favour After Socialism, Oxford University Press http://tinyurl.com/hzq8pxd
Now in paperback - Neoliberalism, Personhood, Postsocialism, Routledge http://tinyurl.com/gukft4p
School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies
University of Oxford
12 Bevington Road
Oxford, OX2 6LH
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