Economies of Favour after Socialism

by Henig, David; Makovicky, Nicolette

• ISBN13: 9780191767128
• ISBN10: 0191767123
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2016-04-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

David Henig, Lecturer in Social Anthropology, School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent,Nicolette Makovicky, Lecturer in Russian and Eastern European Studies, School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, University of Oxford

Nicolette Makovicky is Lecturer of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Oxford. She is the editor of Neoliberalism, Personhood, Postsocialism: Enterprising Selves in Changing Economies (Ashgate, 2014) and has published extensively on informal economic activity in Central Europe.

David Henig is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent. His research, conducted mainly in the Balkans and Central Asia, focuses largely on vernacular Islam, sacred landscape, exchange theory, and more recently on linking anthropology with global transnational history, diplomacy, international relations, and geopolitics. He has authored numerous publications on Islam, dervish orders, Muslim politics, and post-socialism.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Re-imagining Economies after Socialism: Ethics, Favours, and Moral Sentiments, Nicolette Makovicky and David Henig
2. The Ambivalence of Favour: Paradoxes of Russia's Economy of Favours, Alena Ledeneva
3. A New Look at Favours: The Case of Post-Socialist Higher Education, Caroline Humphrey
4. Giving, Taking, and Getting By: Help and Indifference in Moscow's Temporary Housing Market, Madeleine Reeves
5. The Anti-Favour: Ideasthesia, Aesthetics, and Obligation in Southwest China, Katherine Swancutt
6. The Human Economy of Palinka in Hungary: A Case Study in Longue Duree Lubrication, Chris Hann
7. Making History, Making Politics: Post-Socialist Elite Economies of Favour in Bulgaria and the Ukraine, Deema Kaneff
8. Interior Spectacles: The Art of the Informal among the Former Miners in Wa?brzych, Poland, Tomasz Rakowski
9. A Good Deed is not a Crime: Moral Cosmologies of Favours in Muslim Bosnia, David Henig
10. The 'Shadows' of Informality in Rural Poland, Nicolette Makovicky
11. Afterword: The Social Warmth of Paradox, Martin Holbraad