Publication details
Zvyknúť si na Petržalku: každodenný život, bežná spotreba a vzťah k socialistickému sídlisku
| Title in English | Getting used to Petržalka: everyday life, everyday consumption, and relationship to a socialist housing estate |
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| Year of publication | 2013 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Český lid |
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| Field | Sociology, demography |
| Keywords | everyday life everyday consumption post-socialism socialism highrise housing estate informality appropriation of space |
| Description | The paper interconnects studies of everyday life and everyday consumption and research on socialist housing estates. It is based on an ethnographic study of Petržalka, Bratislava. We develop two arguments. First, we focus on perception of the socialist housing estate by citizens of Bratislava, and analyse the role that everyday life and routine practices played in appropriating/getting used to this specific urban space. Also, we claim that everyday routine practices help creating the specific image of the housing estate in the eyes of the inhabitants. In the second plan, and in reaction to the literature on “lived socialism”, the paper argues for a more elaborate definition of socialist consumption that would reflect theories of everyday life. |