Focusing on Slovakia and East Central Europe, this book examines the cultural economy of
protest and considers how the origins of political movements–progressive and reactionary …

This chapter critically engages with recent studies on the “Sovietization” of geography and
regional planning in Hungary. It identifies some key theoretical and methodological issues …

Based on an oral history project that interviewed one hundred former Czech students active
during the “Velvet Revolution” of 1989, this study investigates a motif that emerged …

The article describes the history of the policy of “urban rehabilitation” in Hungary from its
introduction in the 1970s until the 1990s. The main focus is on the dialectic of how different …

The Introduction sets out the conceptual framework of the volume, which traces how
neoliberalism became the legitimizing myth of the postsocialist transitions in Eastern …

In comparison to the historiographical interest in the founding meeting at La Sarraz (1928) or
its fourth congress (1933), less attention has been accorded to the role of CIAM's previous …

This book tells the story of the dissident imaginary of samizdat activists, the political culture
they created, and the pivotal role that culture had in sustaining the resilience of the …

My research investigates 'biographical bisexuality': personal narratives on multiple sexual
desires characterized by shifts in the gender of object choice, in the context of contemporary …

Controversies over memory are characteristic across countries in Eastern Europe and the
former Soviet Union. We could witness what can be called a “memory boom” and rapid and …

Disertační práce zkoumá proces vytváření kolektivní paměti socialismu v České republice v
období post-socialismu a zasazuje jej do kontextu rekonstrukce politických a národních …