'Where is the post-socialism here?' / Peter Norton. Liberated or lawless? Social life on Prishtina's postwar streets / Rita Gagica, Ger Duijzings -- 'Changing everything fast'? Young men in the streets of Tbilisi / Costanza Curro -- Coproducing the car and the stratified street: automobility and space in Russia / Jeremy Morris -- Bucharest's Centura: encircling a city in transformation / Ger Duijzings -- Pedestrianizing Moscow: disparities between the centre and the inner periphery / Sabina Maslova, Tauri Tuvikene -- Between non-place and public space: life at a post-socialist (trolley) bus stop / Andrey Vozyanov -- Where the streets have no name: toponymic changes, wayfinding and Tashkent's system of Orientiry / Nikolaos Olma -- No future without a motorway exit: roadside communities in post-socialist Poland, the case of Torzym / Agata Stanisz -- Conclusion / Ger Duijzings, Tauri Tuvikene -- No alternative to the car; or: What remained of socialism after 1989/91? / Luminita Gatejel -- Periodization, post-socialism and the directionally challenged / Joshua Hotaka Roth -- 'Where is the post-socialism here?' / Peter Norton.
Summary:
"In the last 25 years, the explosive rise of car mobility has transformed street life in post-socialist 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. If Cars Could Walk 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"-- Provided by publisher.
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