Normality, control and the state. Review of "Balkan Blues. Consumer Politics After State Socialism” by Yuson Jung, Indiana University Press: Bloomington 2019, pp. 192

Karolina Bielenin-Lenczowska

doi:10.23858/ethp.2020.41.2307

Published: 2020-12-18

Vol. 41 (2020)

Normality, control and the state. Review of "Balkan Blues. Consumer Politics After State Socialism” by Yuson Jung, Indiana University Press: Bloomington 2019, pp. 192

Karolina Bielenin-Lenczowska

Ethnologia Polona

Section: Reviews

https://doi.org/10.23858/ethp.2020.41.2307

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post-socialism, Bulgaria, consumption, state

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