Detailing the history of a well-known phenomenon of post-socialism - cross-border petty trade and smuggling - as the history of a practice in daily life from a gendered perspective, this book considers how changes in these practices in a particular border region, between Belarus and Lithuania, have been accompanied, and to some extent provoked, by changes in the border regime. It looks at how the selective openness of the Belarus-Lithuania border worked during different periods over the last twenty years and how it influenced the involvement of different social groups in shuttle trade practices.…mehr
Detailing the history of a well-known phenomenon of post-socialism - cross-border petty trade and smuggling - as the history of a practice in daily life from a gendered perspective, this book considers how changes in these practices in a particular border region, between Belarus and Lithuania, have been accompanied, and to some extent provoked, by changes in the border regime. It looks at how the selective openness of the Belarus-Lithuania border worked during different periods over the last twenty years and how it influenced the involvement of different social groups in shuttle trade practices.
Olga Sasunkevich is a lecturer at the Department of Media and executive co-director of the Center for Gender Studies at the European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania.
Inhaltsangabe
Contents: Introduction Shuttle trade in Asmjany: contextualizing oral history research Shuttle trade and borders in Asmjany before the disintegration of the USSR The emergence of national borders, the flourishing of trade: shuttle trade in Asmjany in the early 1990s Maturation of the border, professionalization of shuttle trade (1994-2007) Persistence of the border, disappearance of trade? Shuttle trade in Asmjany after Schengen (2007-2011) Shuttle trade and gender relations: a female world in a provincial border town Conclusion Appendix Bibliography Index.
Contents: Introduction Shuttle trade in Asmjany: contextualizing oral history research Shuttle trade and borders in Asmjany before the disintegration of the USSR The emergence of national borders, the flourishing of trade: shuttle trade in Asmjany in the early 1990s Maturation of the border, professionalization of shuttle trade (1994-2007) Persistence of the border, disappearance of trade? Shuttle trade in Asmjany after Schengen (2007-2011) Shuttle trade and gender relations: a female world in a provincial border town Conclusion Appendix Bibliography Index.
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