Duration:
2015–2017
Client:
Czech Science Foundation (Registration No. 15-03269S)
Department:
Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Arts, University of West Bohemia
Principal Investigator:
Doc. Petr Lozoviuk, Ph.D.
Abstract:
The project aims to conduct and evaluate field research using ethnographic methods, focusing on the analysis of post-Soviet everyday culture. Employing a qualitative methodology, the project seeks to analyze the selected urban area (Odessa) as a specific social space where various everyday practices are negotiated and intersubjectively conditioned strategies are applied.
The dynamics of changes in the post-socialist period will be examined through three meta-level perspectives:
- The city will be viewed as a specific social space.
- The residents of Odessa will be studied in terms of transformations in identity.
- Urban everyday culture will be analyzed through selected cultural concepts.
The primary source for the analysis will be approximately 50 narrative, semi-structured interviews. The final interpretation will aim to answer the question of what mental imprints real socialism has left in the minds of ordinary people, how these manifest in post-Soviet everyday life, and what consequences they entail for everyday living.