Goodbye, post-socialism? Stranger things beyond the Global East

L Chelcea - Eurasian Geography and Economics, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
During the 2010s, several studies questioned the conceptual stability of “post-socialism.” I
review some of these critiques, paying particular attention to the contradictions of the “Global …

The Moral Matrix of Capitalism: Insights from Central and Eastern Europe

N Makovicky, J Wiegratz, D Kofti - East European Politics …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This special section aims to shed light on moral milieus and agencies in contemporary
capitalist central and eastern Europe. Drawing on case studies from Bulgaria, the Czech …

Illiberal economies: ambivalence and critique in an alternative investment scheme

TB Hayden, S Muir - Journal of the Royal Anthropological …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This article examines practices of critique and ambivalence among participants in a
controversial Latin American investment scheme called the telares de la abundancia ('looms …

Housing as asset and payment: Construction, speculation, and financialization at the European periphery

S Musaraj - American Anthropologist, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Construction booms have dominated Albania's economy and politics since the late 1990s.
These booms continued even during times of illiquidity. One of the sources of financing …

“Can Love Be Transferred”? Tracing Albania's History of Migration and the Meaning of Remittances

J Vullnetari - Remitting, Restoring and Building Contemporary …, 2021 - Springer
Since the fall of the communist regime, Albania has experienced high levels of emigration
with significant impact, especially in terms of remittances. Material and sociocultural …

Tirana Visible and Invisible

M Rosen, S Musaraj - " Invisible Cities" and the Urban Imagination, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Reading Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities can move scholars of real cities to look at
issues of urbanity in new and useful ways (Linder, this volume). This was certainly true for …

Introduction: the moral matrix of capitalism in contemporary Central and Eastern Europe

N Makovicky, J Wiegratz, D Kofti - East European Politics and Societies …, 2023 - ora.ox.ac.uk
This special section aims to shed light on moral milieus and agencies in contemporary
capitalist Central and Eastern Europe. Drawing on case studies from Bulgaria, the Czech …

[HTML][HTML] Cuando las inversiones se popularizan. Finanzas digitales e inversores amateurs en Argentina

M Soledad Sánchez - Estudios sociológicos, 2024 - scielo.org.mx
En la Argentina, en un contexto económico marcado por los altos niveles de inflación y las
fuertes restricciones sobre el mercado de cambios, las inversiones en diversos instrumentos …

The Greatest Scam: Network Marketing and the Economization of Everyday Life in the United States

M Kristiansen - 2022 - gupea.ub.gu.se
This thesis examines how neoliberalism has penetrated the everyday life of middle-class
Americans, leading to new forms of living and new collective understandings of the capitalist …

When Investments Become Popular. Digital Finance and Amateur Investors in Argentina

M Soledad Sánchez - Estudios sociológicos, 2024 - scielo.org.mx
Cuando las inversiones se popularizan. Finanzas digitales e inversores amateurs en Argentina
When Investments Become Popular. Di Page 1 1 Volumen 42, 2024, pp. 1-26 | Recibido: 22 de …