Mobilities in Socialist and Post-Socialist States: Societies on the Move [Hardcover]

This interdisciplinary collection explores what mobility meant, and still means, in the specific contexts of Soviet and East European socialist and post-socialist societies. Together the chapters consider diverse practices of mobility and their different contexts of power, resistance and inequality.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 DietzschThe 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 ls-