Public Keynote by Luminiţa Gatejel: Car Culture in State Socialist and Post-Socialist Countries

Name: Public Keynote by Luminiţa Gatejel: Car Culture in State Socialist and Post-Socialist Countries
Start: 2024-11-08T11:00:00+02:00
Location: Tallinna Ülikooli Mare maja

Schedule

Fri Nov 08 2024 at 11:00 am

UTC+02:00

Location

Tallinna Ülikooli Mare maja | Tallinn, HA

🗣️ Avalik ettekanne "Looking Back at More Than Two Decades of (Post)Socialist Car Culture and Why We Can’t Let It Go!" toimub 08.11.2024 kell 11:00 ruumis M-225. Esitlus on osa TLÜs toimuvast akadeemilisest töötoast "History and Present of the Socialist Car Culture" (08.-10.11.2024).
Ingliskeelses ettekandes antakse lühiülevaade autosid ja autokultuuri käsitlevast kirjandusest sotsialistlikes ja postsotsialistlikes riikides. Seejuures toonitatakse uurimisprojektide mitmekülgset interdistsiplinaarset iseloomu, mis lähtuvad tarbija-, liikuvuse- ja teadustehnoloogilistest perspektiividest. Esitluses arutletakse ka selle üle, milliseid eeliseid annab keskendumine ühele konkreetsele kultuuriruumile, kui uuritakse laiaulatuslikke nähtusi, mis puudutavad tegelikult paljusid ühiskondi. Lisaks tematiseeritakse nii ametlikku poliitikat kui ka inimestevahelist lävimist ja isiklikke kogemusi seoses auto omamise, sõitmise, remontimise või (mitteametlikku) sõidukiga seotud majandustegevusega.
Luminiţa Gatejel on vanemteadur Saksamaal Regensburgis asuvas Leibnizi Ida- ja Kagu-Euroopa Uuringute Instituudis. Ta on kaitsnud doktorikraadi Tübingeni Ülikoolis ja olnud Max Weberi stipendiaat Itaalias Firenzes asuvas Euroopa Ülikooli Instituudis. Gatejel on avaldanud mitmeid artikleid autostumise, igapäevaelu ja tarbimisajaloost idablokis. Tema viimane raamat on "Engineering the Lower Danube: Technology and International Cooperation in an Imperial Borderland", mis ilmus 2022. aastal Central European University Pressi väljaandena.
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"Looking Back at More Than Two Decades of (Post)Socialist Car Culture and Why We Can’t Let It Go!", Luminiţa Gatejel (IOS, Regensburg).
🗣️ This public keynote speech will take place on Nov. 8, 2024, at 11:00 a.m. in the room M-225. This talk is a part of the academic workshop “History and Present of the Socialist Car Culture” at Tallinn University, November 8-10, 2024.
This talk will give a short overview of the literature dealing with automobiles and car culture in state socialist and post-socialist countries. It will emphasize the wide-range interdisciplinary approaches coming from consumer, mobility and STS studies that blended in most studies. It will reflect on the merits of focusing on a specific cultural space when dealing with broad phenomena that many societies share. Further, it will examine official policies as well as social interactions and personal experiences concerning car ownership, driving and repair practices or (informal) economic exchanges with and around automobiles.
Luminiţa Gatejel is a senior researcher at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies in Regensburg. She received her PhD from the University of Tübingen and was a Max Weber fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. She has published extensively on the history of automobility, everyday life, and consumption in the Eastern Bloc. Her latest book is Engineering the Lower Danube: Technology and International Cooperation in an Imperial Borderland, published in 2022 with Central European University Press.