Ida Harboe Knudsen

New Lithuania in Old Hands (eBook, PDF)

Effects and Outcomes of EUropeanization in Rural Lithuania

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Produktbeschreibung

Based on detailed ethnographic material, 'New Lithuania in Old Hands' analyzes the impact that European Union membership has had upon the country's ageing small-scale farmers. Addressing the highly relevant themes of European Union enlargement and the 'Return to Europe', this book describes how Lithuania's EU membership has been a far cry from the scenarios of wealth and overabundance once promised.

On the contrary, membership of the EU has in many instances resulted in a return to subsistence production, increased insecurity and a reinforcement of kinship obligations. Within the agrarian sector, such changes threaten to have a large impact upon the future of family structures, and in turn, the future of the farming demographic as a whole.

While political forces have attempted to create a 'New Lithuania' in light of Europe's geopolitical agenda, it has been the country's ageing 'Soviet generation' that has actually brought into effect the restructuring of the agricultural sector. Thus, instead of treating the European Union as an elite project and voicing the support of various other parts of the population, 'New Lithuania in Old Hands' shows how the broader parts of the rural population have been affected by and engaged in the processes of change that followed Lithuania's accession to the EU.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857289360
• Artikelnr.: 49420239

Autorenporträt

Ida Harboe Knudsen is a postdoctoral fellow at Aarhus University, Denmark (financed by the Danish Independent Research Council) and an affiliated researcher at Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Lithuania: An Overview
List of Tables and Figures
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Small-Scale Farmers at the Geopolitical Return to Europe, 1990–2004
Chapter 3. Paradoxes of Aging: On Aging Farmers and Aging Politicians
Chapter 4. Effects of and Responses to the EU Programs in the Countryside
Chapter 5. The Insiders and the Outsiders: EUropeanization of Products and People in the Marketplace
Chapter 6. “If you wish your son bad luck, give him your land”: EUropeanization, Demographic Change and Social Security
Chapter 7. “They told us we would be getting up on the high mountain”: Concluding Remarks
Bibliography
Index