Global villages :

Global villages : rural and urban transformations in contemporary Bulgaria / edited by Ger Duijzings. - 1 online resource (222 pages) - Anthem series on Russia, East European and Eurasion studies . - Anthem series on Russian, East European and Eurasian studies. .

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction / Ger Duijzings -- Rural-urban relations in a global age / Deema Kaneff -- Every village, a different story : tracking rural diversity in Bulgaria / Gerald Creed -- Smugglers into millionaires : marginality and shifting cultural hierarchies in a Bulgarian border town / Galia Valtchinova -- Rural decline as the epilogue to communist modernization : the case of a socialist model village / Lenka Nahodilova -- No wealth without networks and personal trust : new capitalist agrarian entrepreneurs in the Dobrudzha / Christian Giordano and Dobrinka Kostova -- Inheritance after restitution : modern legislative norms and customary practices in rural Bulgaria / Petko Hristov -- Rural, urban and rurban : everyday perceptions and practices / Daniela Koleva -- The koprivshtitsa festival : from national icon to globalized village event / Liz Mellish -- Fashioning markets : brand geographies in Bulgaria / Ulrich Ermann -- Greek (ad)ventures in Sofia : economic elite mobility and new cultural hierarchies at the margins of Europe / Aliki Angelidou and Dimitra Kofti.

9780857280848 (ebook)


Urbanization--Bulgaria.


Bulgaria--Rural conditions.


Electronic books.

HN623.5 / .G56 2013eb

307.72