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Everyday Revolutions in Eastern Europe and the Balkans book cover

1st Edition

Everyday Revolutions in Eastern Europe and the Balkans

Edited By Piotr Goldstein, Phaedra Douzina-Bakalaki Copyright 2027
162 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book draws on ethnographic case studies from Eastern Europe and the Balkans to examine “everyday revolutions,” shifting focus from spectacular uprisings to the subtle, dispersed, and often overlooked practices through which people challenge power and reshape social life. Exploring a region often imagined as either a cradle of upheaval or politically stagnant, the book highlights acts of... Read more

Introduction: Everyday Revolutions
Phaedra Douzina-Bakalaki and Piotr Goldstein

1. “We Are No Longer in Communism!”: Everyday Revolutions in High-Schools in Romania
Imola Püsök

2. “You are Pregnant — You Did Not Have to Pay”: Conforming as Confronting
Ljiljana Pantović

3. A Woman – An Everyday Life Activist: A Polish Example
Katarzyna Orszulak-Dudkowska

4. Refugee Satire as a Form of Resistance Polish Displaced Persons Take a Ghost Train and Resettle on Saturn
Katarzyna Nowak

5. How the Memory of Dissent Changed Contemporary Photographic Heritage?: The Hobbyist Revolution of Fortepan
Tamás Scheibner

6. “Bad Taste” as Cultural Resistance: FESRAM and the Crap Music Debate in Serbia
Irena Šentevska

7. The Beginnings of Activism?: Refusal as Political Engagement for Refugees in Slovakia
Eva-Maria Walther

8. Infrapolitics as Everyday Revolutions?: Exploring Liminal Protest Tactics in Contemporary Russia
Christian Fröhlich and Kerstin Jacobsson

Biography

Piotr Goldstein is a social and visual anthropologist based in Berlin. He has published on everyday activism, civil society, migrants’ social engagement, visual methods, narratives and practices of diversity, and language and identity. He is the director of the internationally awarded ethnographic documentaries: Active (Citizen) and Spółdzielnia / Cooperative.

Phaedra Douzina-Bakalaki is a social anthropologist at the University of the Aegean. Her work examines economic transformation and social reproduction in Greece, including provisioning during the crisis, energy transitions, and mass tourism. She is currently researching beauty labour and its politics through an ethnographic study of manicures.

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