Affective economies and post-socialisms

Tomasz Rakowski

Chapter 2 in Elgar Encyclopedia of Economic Anthropology, 2025, pp 290-294 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This entry looks at the processes of post-socialist transformation that occurred in Poland and Mongolia from the 1990s onward. Some spontaneous and affective responses were observed in both cases as the former economic regimes collapsed and gradually released new social mechanisms. Many former socialist laborers were dispossessed of work, rights, and forms of sociality. Once, being a worker or a miner in Poland or a herder in Mongolia would mean performing an established position, both on formal and informal levels, and was related to socialist modernization and a socialist state. I show how the process of dispossession from this former position caused increased informal sociality and vernacular state creations that intertwined with each other and were fueled by strong affects.

Keywords: Dispossession; Labor; Workers; Building; Herders; Affect; State (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035312566
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