CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2012
| Author | Romina, Marianna |
|---|---|
| Title | ETHNIC ARTS AS DEVELOPMENT TRAJECTORY IN UKRAINE'S HINTERLANDS: EXPECTATIONS AND EXPERIENCES OF WOMEN ARTISANS |
| Summary | Based on fieldwork in the hinterlands of Ukraine, carried out in April 2012, the main objective of this ethnography is to explore the experiences of women artisans, within the context of tourism and ethnic artifacts industry as a prevalent “development” strategy. With references to and analytical concepts based on recent literature on neoliberalism and development, I construe an exploration of structural processes, changing values and social relations, and differentiations in material property forms and associated relationships formed as part of commoditization of artisans and their work. I argue that “development” - in its neo-liberal form of accumulation and non-redistribution, where global hierarchies of value are adopted in the context of re-traditionalization, and where flexibilization of labor does not lead to a teleological endpoint of modernization as envisaged by “development” discourse - effects fragmentations in society and does not deliver expected modernities of wellbeing and social integration. Thus women artisans experience a disconnect from larger economies and a devaluing of their social status, instead of expected integration. The thesis implies that flexibilization and informalization of labor, as epiphenomena of neoliberally defined development, result in transformation of social fabric: in fragmentations and inequalities, disrupted horizontal solidarities, and non-redistributive processes, where accumulation effects occur in parallel to and in contrast with marginalization processes of displaced by “development” women artisans. |
| Supervisor | Kalb, Don; Geva, Dorit |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2012/romina_marianna.pdf |
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