Mobilities in Socialist and Post-Socialist States: Societies on the Move

276 Pages·2014·3.225 MB·English

by  Kathy Burrell, Kathrin Hörschelmann (eds.)

Mobilities in Socialist and Post-Socialist States
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Mobilities in Socialist and
Post-Socialist States
Societies on the Move
Edited by
Kathy Burrell
University of Liverpool, UK
and
Kathrin Hörschelmann
University of Durham, UK and Leibniz Institut for
Regional Geography Leipzig, Germany
Selection, introduction and editorial matter © Kathy Burrell and
Kathrin Hörschelmann 2014
Remaining chapters © Respective authors 2014
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Mobilities in socialist and post-socialist states : societies on the move /
edited by Kathy Burrell, University of Liverpool, UK, Kathrin Hörschelmann,
University of Durham, UK.
pages cm
1. Migration, Internal – Europe, Eastern. 2. Migration, Internal – Europe,
Central. 3. Tourism – Europe, Eastern. 4. Tourism – Europe, Central.
5. Transportation – Europe, Eastern. 6. Transportation – Europe, Central.
I. Burrell, Kathy, editor. II. Hörschelmann, Kathrin, 1971– editor.
HB2042.7.A3M63 2014
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Contents
List of Illustrations vii
Acknowledgements i x
Notes on Contributors x
1 Introduction: Understanding Mobility in Soviet and
East European Socialist and Post-Socialist States 1
Kathy Burrell and Kathrin Hörschelmann
2 Communication, Mobility and Control in the Soviet Union
after World War II 23
Larissa Zakharova
3 Power and Mobilities in Socialist Romania 1964–89 45
Ciprian Cirniala
4 Leisure and Politics: Soviet Central Asian Tourists across
the Iron Curtain 62
Botakoz Kassymbekova
5 Between Limits, Lures and Excitement: Socialist
Romanian Holidays Abroad during the 1960s–80s 87
Adelina Oana Stefan
6 Mooring in Socialist Automobility: Garage Areas 105
Tauri Tuvikene
7 ‘Women Here Are Like at the Time of Enver [Hoxha]…’:
Socialist and Post-Socialist Gendered Mobilities in
Albanian Society 122
Julie Vullnetari and Russell King
8 The View from the Back of the Warrior: Mobility,
Privilege and Power during the International
Intervention in Bosnia-Herzegovina 148
Catherine Baker
9 Travel and the State after the ‘Fall’: Everyday Modes of
Transport in Post-Socialist Serbia 173
M arina Simić
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10 U rban Public Transport and the State in Post-Soviet
Central Asia 1 94
Wladimir Sgibnev
11 G eography of Daily Mobilities in Post-Socialist European
Countries: Evidence from Slovenia 2 17
David Bole and Matej Gabrovec
12 L ife-Worlds of Deceleration: Reflections on the
‘New Mobilities Paradigm’ through Ethnographic
Research in Post-Socialist Germany 2 40
Ina Dietzsch
Index 2 61
List of Illustrations
Figures
4.1 I n front of a store with clothes, Cairo, 1978 78
4.2 W ith pineapples and bananas, Havanna, 1976 79
6.1 A garage area in Tartu, Estonia 111
7.1 C ommunist era bunkers, Devoll, 2005 128
7.2 C hinese truck transporting people, Sarandë, 1989 133
7.3 Q ueuing for bread in Tirana, 1992 135
7.4 L and of the Mercedes, Korçë, 2012 141
10.1 M arshrutka in Khujand 2 01
10.2 S witching lines 2 03
10.3 P ostcard featuring modern public transport in a
modern city – trolleybuses on the Lenin Avenue
in Dushanbe 2 05
10.4 ‘ Diverse forms of ownership are the foundations of
the economy’ 2 09
10.5 ‘ Independence is a holy duty of the citizen’ 209
10.6 ‘ We raise our dear city to the level of the historic
capitals of the nation’ 2 10
10.7 ‘ Dushanbe is the homestead of love and the house of
hope for the Tajiks of the world’ 2 11
10.8 ‘ We transform our city into a sea of flowers’ 211
10.9 ‘ A cultivated capital is a cultivation of our home’ 212
10.10 M odern Belkommunmash trolleybus in Bishkek 212
11.1 M odal split of Slovene workers from 1981 to 2002 223
11.2 I nvestments in various transportation sector
modes in Slovenia 2 25
11.3 E xample of a spontaneous and unkempt carpooling
parking lot next to the freeway access point south of
the capital city of Ljubljana 227
Maps
6.1 T he map of Tartu with garage areas 113
10.1 F ixed-track system in Central Asia 1 99
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viii List of Illustrations
Tables
4.1 S oviet Central Asian tourists travelling abroad 75
4.2 S oviet citizens travelling abroad in 1956 and 1961
by origin regions and republics 7 6
11.1 D aily commuters to work according to mode of travel
and education (structural percentages), Census 2002 233
Acknowledgements
This volume arises from three Royal Geographical Society-Institute of
British Geographers annual conference sessions on ‘Socialist and Post-
Socialist Mobilities’, held in London in September 2010. We would like
to thank everybody who contributed to and attended these sessions.
Secondly, we are extremely grateful to Duncan Light and Craig Young
for their invaluable roles as reviewers for, and supporters of, the volume,
and Duncan especially for also reviewing the introduction. Finally, we
would like to thank our families, Matt, Anya, Marian and Lewis, and
James, Karl and Lea, for their support throughout the project.
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