Taste for Oppression - A Political Ethnography of Everyday Life in Belarus

Very few up-to-date qualitative studies are available on locked societies (such as north Korea or Belarus), thus this book fills an important gap in our understanding of existing authoritarian regimes.


An inside look at daily lives of people in a country that is often referred to as "the last dictatorship in Europe" from an author who lived and worked in Belarus.


Addresses mechanisms of tyranny and explores why part of the population still supports Lukashenko.


The issues of society consent to obedience and adaptation to a long-lasting authoritarian regime is relevant in very divers thematical and disciplinary fields (from political sciences to psychology).

A propos de l'auteur

Ronan Hervouet is Professor of sociology at the University of Bordeaux and a member of the Centre Émile Durkheim. He has previously published a book on Belarus, entitled Datcha Blues. Existences ordinaires et dictature en Biélorussie (Belin, 2009).

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Ronan Hervouet
• Edition: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 01.03.2024
• EAN: 9781805393078
• ISBN: 978-1-80539-307-8
• Pages: 270
• Thème: Anthropology of Europe
• Catégories: Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sciences sociales en général; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Belarus, Social and cultural anthropology, Political control and freedoms, Political Control & Freedoms, Belarus (Belorussia)