Deserved - Economic Memories After the Fall of the Iron Curtain

Till Hilmar examines memories of the postsocialist transition in East Germany and the Czech Republic to offer new insights into the power of narratives about economic change.

List of contents

Introduction
1. Historical Trajectories
2. Remembering Economic Change After 1989
3. Deserving and Undeserving Others
4. The Social Experience of the Transformation Period
Epilogue: How Right-Wing Populists Capture Deservingness
Methodological Appendix
Acknowledgments
Copyright Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Till Hilmar is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Vienna and a faculty fellow at Yale University’s Center for Cultural Sociology.

Summary

Till Hilmar examines memories of the postsocialist transition in East Germany and the Czech Republic to offer new insights into the power of narratives about economic change.

Product details

• Authors: Till Hilmar
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.07.2023
• EAN: 9780231209793
• ISBN: 978-0-231-20979-3
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, Russia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, HISTORY / World, Economic history, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, History of other geographical groupings and regions, History of other lands, social science; business & economics