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Found 4 from your keywords: author="Ledeneva, Alena"
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Re-centring the city :global mutations of socialist modernity
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Ledeneva, AlenaZusi, PeterBach, JonathanMurawski, Michał

What is the role of monumentality, verticality and centrality in the twenty-first century? Are palaces, skyscrapers and grand urban ensembles obsolete relics of twentieth-century modernity, inexorably giving way to a more humble and sustainable de-centred urban age? Or do the aesthetics and politics of pomp and grandiosity rather linger and even prosper in the cities of today and tomorrow? R…

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9781787354111
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xix, 292 p. ill;
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307.116 REC J
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The global encyclopaedia of informality :understanding social and cultural co…
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Ledeneva, AlenaZusi, Peter

Alena Ledeneva invites you on a voyage of discovery, to explore society’s open secrets, unwritten rules and know-how practices. Broadly defined as ‘ways of getting things done’, these invisible yet powerful informal practices tend to escape articulation in official discourse. They include emotion-driven exchanges of gifts or favours and tributes for services, interest-driven know-how (fro…

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9781911307907
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xxix, 400 p.
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306 GLO A
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Remains of the Soviet past in Estonia :an anthropology of forgetting, repair …
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Ledeneva, AlenaMartínez, FranciscoZusi, Peter

What happens to legacies that do not find any continuation? In Estonia, a new generation that does not remember the socialist era and is open to global influences has grown up. As a result, the impact of the Soviet memory in people’s conventional values is losing its effective power, opening new opportunities for repair and revaluation of the past. Francisco Martinez brings together a numb…

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9781787353534
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xix, 255 p. ill;
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974.98 REM F
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Interpreting art
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Rose, SamMathews, TimothyLedeneva, AlenaStaiger, UtaBaker, Emily

How do people make sense of works of art? And how do they write to make others see the same way? There are many guides to looking at art, histories of art history and art criticism, and accounts of various ‘theories’ and ‘methods’, but this book offers something very unlike the normal search for difference and division: it examines the general and largely unspoken norms shared by interp…

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9781800081772
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xi, 136 p. ill;
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701.18 INT E