Preface and Acknowledgements; Note on Transliteration; Chapter 1: Introduction - Ger Duijzings; Chapter 2: Rural-Urban Relations in a Global Age - Deema Kaneff; Chapter 3: Every Village, a Different Story: Tracking Rural Diversity in Bulgaria - Gerald W. Creed; Chapter 4: Smugglers into Millionaires: Marginality and Shifting Cultural Hierarchies in a Bulgarian Border Town - Galia Valtchinova; Chapter 5: Rural Decline as the Epilogue to Communist Modernization: The Case of a Socialist 'Model' Village - Lenka Nahodilova; Chapter 6: No Wealth without Networks and Personal Trust: New Capitalist Agrarian Entrepreneurs in the Dobrudzha - Christian Giordano and Dobrinka Kostova; Chapter 7: Inheritance after Restitution: Modern Legislative Norms and Customary Practices in Rural Bulgaria - Petko Hristov; Chapter 8: Rural, Urban and Rurban: Everyday Perceptions and Practices - Daniela Koleva; Chapter 9: The Koprivshtitsa Festival: From National Icon to Globalized Village Event - Liz Mellish; Chapter 10: Fashioning Markets: Brand Geographies in Bulgaria - Ulrich Ermann; Chapter 11: Greek (Ad)ventures in Sofia: Economic Elite Mobility and New Cultural Hierarchies at the Margins of Europe - Aliki Angelidou and Dimitra Kofti; List of Contributors
The first book in a decade to look in-depth at transformations in contemporary Bulgaria, tackling the neglected issue of globalization in rural contexts.
Ger Duijzings is reader in the anthropology of Eastern Europe at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London.
'I would recommend this book to anyone researching within the fields of post-socialism, neoliberal restructuring, rural and urban transformations [...] [T]he diversity of research contexts offers a broad spectrum of recent research that does justice to the complex and complementary roles that rural and urban localities play in our current global climate.' -Aneliya Kuzmanova, 'Martor - The Museum of the Romanian Peasant Anthropology Review'
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