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________________________________ From: Ariane Extremet <[log in to unmask]> Sent: 15 October 2013 12:40 To: Mole, Richard Subject: Information about important new and recent books - please pass on to your members [https://wpcpress.box.com/shared/static/trq525r7gd8cnwc7qer8.jpg]<http://anthempress.com/> Dear Dr Richard Mole, We are an academic and reference book publisher and we would like to send information about our new titles and book series to members of the UK Baltic Study Group. Recently, we have published ''New Lithuania in Old Hands: Effects and Outcomes of EUropeanization in Rural Lithuania'<http://www.anthempress.com/new-lithuania-in-old-hands-pb> by Ida Harboe Knudsen and we believe that the members would find this book very interesting (please find more information below). Could you please pass this info to the members of your association? Also could you please advise me about other ways of promoting our books in future (e.g. at forthcoming events and conferences)? I look forward to hearing from you. Best regards, Ariane e: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> w: www.anthempress.com<http://www.anthempress.com/> --- BOOK INFORMATION [https://wpcpress.box.com/shared/static/4xvgydgookuvg6g251vq.jpg]<http://www.anthempress.com/new-lithuania-in-old-hands-pb> 'New Lithuania in Old Hands: Effects and Outcomes of EUropeanization in Rural Lithuania'<http://www.anthempress.com/new-lithuania-in-old-hands-pb> By Ida Harboe Knudsen 9780857284532 - HB 9781783080472 - PB This title is also available as an eBook: http://www.anthempress.com/ebooks<http://www.anthempress.com/ebooks?SID=s4do9dd8r647dd8a28c4cgha86> Print friendly info sheet: http://www.anthempress.com/pdf/9781783080472.pdf The Plug Based on detailed ethnographic material, “New Lithuania in Old Hands” analyzes the impact that European Union accession has had upon the country’s aging smallscale farmers, and describes how the reality of Lithuania’s EU membership has been a far cry from the scenarios of wealth and overabundance once promised. The text reveals that, in many instances, membership has resulted in a return to subsistence production, increased insecurity and a reinforcement of kinship obligations. Thus instead of treating the European Union as an elite project and voicing the support of various other segments of the population, this volume shows how broad parts of the rural population have been affected by and engaged in processes of change following Lithuania’s accession – changes that threaten to have a large impact upon the future of the country’s family structures and its farming demographic. About the Author Ida Harboe Knudsen is a postdoctoral fellow at Aarhus University, Denmark (financed by the Danish Independent Research Council) and an affiliated researcher at Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania. Advance Praise for “New Lithuania in Old Hands” “Analyzing Lithuania’s development as two parallel and intertwined processes – withdrawing from the Soviet Union and entering the EU – ‘New Lithuania in Old Hands’ provides a convincing understanding of the country’s continuities and discontinuities with its socialist past. The book’s vivid ethnographic examples provide a deep insight into Lithuanians’ ambivalent feelings of anxiety, fear, and hope for affluence and a better future.” —Dr Keebet von Benda-Beckmann, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology “Knudsen’s account of Europeanization highlights the difficulties in applying common policies to uncommon situations, especially given the reluctance of older Lithuanians to accept that small-scale farming has no real future. It is to the author’s credit that she shows that Europeanization can be studied just as well via investigating the experience of everyday changes as it can via an examination of treaties and national development plans.” —Dr Andrew Cartwright, Central European University “Ida Knudsen’s discussion of the way continuities from the Soviet past seep into the EU present is first rate, showing convincingly how established patterns of social relations – such as ‘blat,’ networks and corruption – adapt to the EU context. Perhaps the most original aspect of the work, however, is her convincing argument that in the journey from Brussels to the outlying marginal regions, EU policy is translated into myriad economic, social and political processes, creating in practice many different local EUs.” —Dr Frances Pine, Goldsmiths, University of London ABOUT ANTHEM PRESS www.anthempress.com<http://www.anthempress.com/> Anthem Press is an independent academic, educational and reference publishing house with a strong international focus. The company’s head office is in London and has sales offices in New York, New Delhi. Anthem’s publications focus on the Humanities and Social Sciences and selected areas in the Sciences.