Books in the New Anthropologies of Europe series

Crossing religious frontiers at shared holy places

Is 21st-century Rome a global city? Is it part of Europe's core or periphery? This volume examines the "real city" beyond Rome's historical center, exploring the diversity and challenges of life in neighborhoods affected by immigration, neoliberalism, formal urban planning, and grassroots social movements.

Is 21st-century Rome a global city? Is it part of Europe's core or periphery? This book examines the "real city" beyond Rome's historical center, exploring the diversity and challenges of life in neighborhoods affected by immigration, neoliberalism, formal urban planning, and grassroots social movements.

Currency and culture in a European border zone

Drawing on ethnographic methods and Participatory Action Research, Hemment tells the story of her introduction to and growing collaboration with members of the group Zhenskii Svet (Women's Light) in the provincial city of Tver'.

Pathbreaking studies of the postsocialist transition

In Ukraine, with privatization and the scaling back of the social safety net, it is women who have been left as leaders of service-oriented NGOs and mutual aid associations, caring for the destitute with little or no support from the Ukrainian state. This book documents the unexpected effects that social activism has produced for women in Ukraine.

A poignant portrayal of the price of postsocialist transition for industrial workers