Krisztina Fehérváry

Politics in Color and Concrete

Socialist Materialities and the Middle Class in Hungary

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This engaging study decenters conventional perspectives on consumer capitalism, home ownership, and citizenship in the new Europe.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 161mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9780253009913
• ISBN-10: 025300991X
• Artikelnr.: 36843202

Autorenporträt

Krisztina Fehérváry is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Qualities of Color and Concrete
1. Normal Life in the Former Socialist City
2. Socialist Realism in the Socialist City
3. Socialist Modern and the Production of Demanding Citizens
4. Socialist Generic and the Branding of the State
5. Organicist Modern and Super-Natural Organicism
6. Unstable Landscapes of Property, Morality and Status
7. The New Family House and the New Middle Class
Epilogue
Conclusion: Heterotopias of the Normal in Private Worlds