Awards

• Winner of Winner, 2014 William E. Douglass Prize in Europeanist AnthropologyHonorable Mention, Davis Center Book Prize in Political and Social Studies.
• Winner of Winner, 2014 William E. Douglass Prize in Europeanist AnthropologyHonorable Mention, Davis Center Book Prize in Political and Social StudiesHungarian .

Overview

Material culture in Eastern Europe under state socialism is remembered as uniformly gray, shabby, and monotonous-the worst of postwar modernist architecture and design. Politics in Color and Concrete revisits this history by exploring domestic space in Hungary from the 1950s through the 1990s and reconstructs the multi-textured and politicized aesthetics of daily life through the objects, spaces, and colors that made up this lived environment. Krisztina Fehervary shows that contemporary standards of living and ideas about normalcy have roots in late socialist consumer culture and are not merely products of postsocialist transitions or neoliberalism. This engaging study decenters conventional perspectives on consumer capitalism, home ownership, and citizenship in the new Europe.

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<p>The topic is extremely timely and relevant; the writing is lucid and thorough; the theory is complex and sophisticated without being overly dense, or daunting. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it.--Brad Weiss, College of William and Mary

The topic is extremely timely and relevant; the writing is lucid and thorough; the theory is complex and sophisticated without being overly dense, or daunting. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. - Brad Weiss, College of William and Mary

<p> The topic is extremely timely and relevant; the writing is lucid and thorough; the theory is complex and sophisticated without being overly dense, or daunting. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. --Brad Weiss, College of William and Mary--Brad Weiss, College of William and Mary

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Krisztina Fehérváry is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan.

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