Mobilities in Socialist and Post-Socialist States

Catherine Baker, University of Hull, UK David Bole, Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Ljubljana, Slovenia Ciprian Cirniala, University of Potsdam, Germany Ina Dietzsch, Institute of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology Matej Gabrovec, Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Ljubljana, Slovenia Botakoz Kassymbekova, Technical University Berlin, Germany Russell King, University of Sussex, UK Adelina Oana Stefan, University of Pittsburgh, USA Wladimir Sgibnev, Regional Geography in Leipzig, Germany Marina Simi?, University of Manchester, UK Tauri Tuvikene, Tallinn University, Estonia Julie Vullnetari, University of Sussex, UK Larissa Zakharova, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, France

“The scope of the book is broad, discussing both physical mobilities and their representations – cultural meanings attached to moving in space or inability to do so. … The volume is worth reading as an important addition to the scholarship on mobilities as well as to the studies of socialist and post-socialist societies. It deals with under-researched issues like gender and  ethnicity.” (Mariusz Jastrząb, The Journal of Transport History, Vol. 38 (2), 2018)

• 1. Introduction: Understanding Mobility in Soviet and East European Socialist and Post-Socialist States; Kathy Burrell 2. Communication, Mobility and Control in the Soviet Union after the Second World War; Larissa Zakharova 3. Power and Mobilities in Socialist Romania 1964-89; Ciprian Cirniala 4. Leisure and Politics: Soviet Central Tourists across the Iron Curtain; Botakoz Kassymbekova 5. Between Limits, Lures and Excitement: Socialist Romanian Holidays Abroad During the 1960s-1980s; Adelina Oana Stefan 6. Mooring in Socialist Automobility: Garage Areas; Tauri Tuvikene 7. 'Women here are like at the time of Enver [Hoxha]…':Socialist and Post-socialist Gendered Mobility in Albanian Society; Julie Vullnetari 8. The View from the Back of the Warrior: Mobility, Privilege and Power during the International Intervention in Bosnia-Herzegovina; Catherine Baker 9. Travel and the State After the 'fall': Everyday Modes of Transport in Post-socialist Serbia; Marina Simi? 10. Urban Public Transport and the State in post-Soviet Central Asia; Wladimir Sgibnev 11. The Geography of Daily Mobilities in Post-socialist European Countries: Evidence from Slovenia; David Bole 12. Life Worlds of Deceleration: Reflections on the 'new mobilities paradigm' through ethnographic research in post-socialist Germany; Ina Dietzsch