New Lithuania in Old Hands Effects and Outcomes of EUropeanization in Rural Lithuania

Name: New Lithuania in Old Hands Effects and Outcomes of EUropeanization in Rural Lithuania
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ISBN: 9781783080472

ISBN-10: 1783080477

ISBN-13: 9781783080472

Edition: 2013

Authors: Ida Harboe Knudsen

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Based on detailed ethnographic material, “New Lithuania in Old Hands” analyzes the impact that European Union accession has had upon the country’s aging smallscale farmers, and describes how the reality of Lithuania’s EU membership has been a far cry from the scenarios of wealth and overabundance once promised. The text reveals that, in many instances, membership has resulted in a return to subsistence production, increased insecurity and a reinforcement of kinship obligations. Thus instead of treating the European Union as an elite project and voicing the support of various other segments of the population, this volume shows how broad parts of the rural population have been affected by and…

Book details

Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Anthem Press
Publication date: 10/1/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 204
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Ida Harboe Knudsen is a postdoctoral fellow at Aarhus University, Denmark, and an affiliated researcher at Vytautas Magnas University, Lithuania. #13;



Acknowledgments


Lithuania: An Overview


List of Tables and Figures



Introduction



Small-Scale Farmers at the Geopolitical Return to Europe, 1990-2004



Paradoxes of Aging: On Aging Farmers and Aging Politicians



Effects of and Responses to the EU Programs in the Countryside



The Insiders and the Outsiders: EUropeanization of Products and People in the Marketplace



"If you wish your son bad luck, give him your land": EUropeanization, Demographic Change and Social Security



"They told us we would be getting up on the high mountain" Concluding Remarks


Bibliography


Index