POST-SOCIALIST PEASANT?: RURAL AND URBAN CONSTRUCTIONS OF IDENTITY IN EASTERN EUROPE, EAST ASIA AND THE FORMER SOVIET UNION

During the past decade, life in post-socialist states has been fraught with instability and conflict. This book focuses on changing rural-urban relations - and growing divisions between them - in the context of the reforms. Contributions to this volume explore responses to capitalist-oriented policies and reasons for rural disenfranchisement. The work takes an ethnographic approach to exploring how 'global' processes engage with local, rural concerns in the post-socialist world.

REGINA M. ABRAMI PhD Student in Asian Studies, Harvard University ANDRE CZEGLEDY Senior Lecturer, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg JOHN FLOWER Assistant Professor of East Asian History, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA CAROLINE HUMPHREY Professor of Asian Anthropology, University of Cambridge LOUISE PERROTTA Freelance Social Development Consultant FRANCES PINE Researcher and Author