Davide
Torsello and Melinda Pappová, editors. 2003. Social Networks in Movement:
Time, Interaction and Interethnic Spaces in Central Eastern Europe. Forum
Minority Research Institute. Éamorán, Slovakia: Lilium Aurum.
Davide
Torsello and Melinda Pappová, editors. 2003. Social Networks in Movement:
Time, Interaction and Interethnic Spaces in Central Eastern Europe. Forum
Minority Research Institute. Éamorán, Slovakia: Lilium Aurum.
The book is a contribution to the anthropological study of social networks in postsocialist societies. After the decline of the topic in the past two decades, social networks have re-acquired analytical importance in the anthropological investigation. The events that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall have produced dramatic and profound changes in Central Eastern Europe. In a general panaroma of transformation, institutional restructuring, and the forthcoming accession to the EU, it is not surprising if the importance of webs of networks that tie individuals or groups is recognized. The authors approach networks not as static patterns of interaction, but as institutions in movement in time and space according to the ways in which actors configure their present.
Davide Torsello was born in Lecce, Italy. He studied anthropology at the Universities of Hirosaki and London (LSE) and obtained his PhD at the Martin Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg, in 2003. He is affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Melinda Pappová is an independent researcher in the Czech Republic.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Christian Giordano, "Studying networks nowadays: On the utility of a notion"
Claire Wallace, "Social networks and social capital"
Introduction
Section 1: Time and Social Networks
Árendás Zsuzsanna, "Identities in change: Integration strategies
of resettled
Hungarians from Czechoslovakia to Hird (southwestern Hungary)"
Davide Torsello, "Managing instability: Trust, social relations and the
strategic use of ideas and practices in a southern Slovakian village"
Izabella Danter, "Traditional economic life in the northern part of the Danube
Lowland"
Rajko Murs¹ic¹ , "Destinies of post-war colonists in the village of Trate:
Unintended phenomena in the appropriation of public spaces"
Section 2: Interethnic Spaces
Károly Tóth, "A village on the ethnic periphery: The case of Dlhá nad Váhom,
southern Slovakia"
László Szarka, "Border region or contact zone: Ethnic and ethno-social processes
in small regions between the Hungarian-Slovak language and state border"
József Liszka, "Between cultural and geographical borders: Denomination
of the
Mátyusföld region"
Elke Kappus, "Stable networks in changing states? Borders, networks and
community management in the northern Adriatic Istrian Peninsula"
Section 3: Interaction, Migration and Change
Attila Szép, "Some aspects of the Roma migration from Slovakia"
Renata Weinerová, "From East to West: The Roma migration from Slovakia"
Zdenĕk Uherek and Katerina Plochová, "Migration from the former
Soviet Union to the Czech Republic: Comparing the cases of re-settlers from
areas affected by
the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Kazakhstan and labour migration from
Subcarpathian Ukraine"
Marushka Svashek, "Property, power, and emotions: Social dynamics in a Bohemian
village"
Melissa L. Caldwell, "Race and social relations: Crossing borders in a Moscow
food aid program"
Section 4: Appendixes
Shtefan Shutaj, "Research on the ethnic problematic at the Institute for
Social
Sciences of the Slovak Academy of Sciences"
Veronika Nováková, "The District State Archive in Shala and
regional research"
Andrea Lelovics, "The Forum Minority Research Institute"
Frances Pine, "Epilogue"
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