{"product_id":"if-cars-could-walk-postsocialist-streets-in-transformation-9781805390312","title":"If Cars Could Walk: Postsocialist Streets in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tIn the last twenty-five years, the explosive rise of car mobility has transformed street life in postsocialist cities. Whereas previously the social fabric of these cities ran on socialist modes of mobility, they are now overtaken by a culture of privately owned cars. \u003cem\u003eIf Cars Could Walk\u003c\/em\u003e uses ethnographic cases studies documenting these changes in terms of street interaction, vehicles used, and the parameters of speed, maneuverability, and cultural and symbolic values. The altered reality of people’s movements, replacing public transport, bicycles and other former ‘socialist’ modes of mobility with privatized mobility reflect an evolving political and cultural imagination, which in turn shapes their current political reality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“When, some fifteen years ago, I started writing about automobility in socialist societies, little could I have imagined that the postsocialist countries of Europe would inspire a profusion of young scholars to examine their specific mobilities.\u003c\/em\u003e If Cars Could Walk \u003cem\u003econveys all the excitement and even\u003c\/em\u003e frisson \u003cem\u003eof a pioneering venture.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Lewis H. Siegelbaum\u003c\/strong\u003e, Michigan State University\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“This book is an important addition to urban mobility studies and it surely will enrich our understanding of the transformations of street connectivity in the countries of Eastern Europe.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Elena Trubina\u003c\/strong\u003e, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eGer Duijzings and Tauri Tuvikene\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/strong\u003e Seven Imaginary Images of the Transition of GDR Streets, 1989–1995\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eKurt Möser\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e Liberated or Lawless? Social Life on Prishtina’s Postwar Streets\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eRita Gagica and Ger Duijzings\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e ‘Changing Everything Fast’? Young Men in the Streets of Tbilisi\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eCostanza Curro\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e Coproducing the Car and the Stratified Street: Automobility and Space in Russia\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJeremy Morris\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e Bucharest’s \u003cem\u003eCentura\u003c\/em\u003e: Encircling a City in Transformation\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eGer Duijzings\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e Pedestrianizing Moscow: Disparities Between the Centre and the Inner Periphery\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eSabina Maslova and Tauri Tuvikene\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/strong\u003e Between Non-place and Public Space: Life at a Postsocialist (Trolley)Bus Stop\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAndrey Vozyanov\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/strong\u003e Where the Streets Have No Name: Toponymic Changes, Wayfinding and Tashkent’s System of \u003cem\u003eOrientiry\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eNikolaos Olma\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/strong\u003e No Future Without a Motorway Exit: Roadside Communities in Postsocialist Poland – the case of Torzym\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAgata Stanisz\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eConclusion\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eGer Duijzings and Tauri Tuvikene\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePostscripts\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003e No Alternative to the Car; Or: What Remained of Socialism after 1989\/91?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e Luminita Gatejel\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePeriodization, Postsocialism and the Directionally Challenged\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e Joshua Hotaka Roth\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003e‘Where is the Postsocialism Here?’\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003ePeter Norton\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042812985687,"sku":"9781805390312","price":89.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781805390312.jpg?v=1750955752","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/if-cars-could-walk-postsocialist-streets-in-transformation-9781805390312","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}