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Despite important particularities amongst different countries of East-Central Europe the fall
of state socialism brought new conditions for ways of production and distribution of popular culture. At the same time the "longue durée" nature of popular culture meant that it persisted beyond the late state socialist period. But did the dynamics of popular culture follow any
of the shifts that marked the economic and political spheres? Which patterns of cultural production and reception were mobilized to influence popular culture and how important remained local contexts? How can we interpret these changes to reflect present-day societal problems?
Selected Topics:
- Transferring Culture: Westernization and Commodification of the "East"
- Culture of the Post-Socialist New Rich: Continuities with Late State Socialism and Neoliberalism
- Re-traditionalization, Nationalism, Exclusion and Mobilization in Popular Culture
- Fostering Free-market Ideology through Popular Culture
- Conflicting Memories of Anti-/Post-communism in Popular Culture
- Reflections of Sexuality and Gender in Popular Culture
- Exploitation Culture as Reply to Fast Changes in Post-Socialist Societies
- Visual Culture of Post-Socialist Societies of East-Central Europe
- Popular Culture in East-Central Europe as Commodity
- Travelling Cultural Theory (East West)
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