Economies of Favour after Socialism (Book Launch, discussion & wine reception)

Scholars of post-socialist politics and society have often used 'favour' as a by-word for corruption and clientelism.

The contributors to this volume treat favours, and the doing of favours, as a distinct mode of acting, rather than as a form of 'masked' economic exchange or simply an expression of goodwill. Casting their comparative net from post-socialist Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe; to the former Soviet Union, Mongolia, and post-Maoist China, the contributors to this volume show how gratuitous behaviour shapes a plethora of different actions, practices, and judgments across religious and political life, imaginative practices, and local moral economies.

With: 

Introduction from: Alena Ledeneva

Presentations by editors: David Henig (Kent) & Nicolette Makovicky (Oxford)

Commentary from: Ivan Rajkovic (UCL, SSEES), Rebecca Empson (UCL, Anthropology) and FRINGE academics 

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