New Lithuania in Old Hands_9781783080472 -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- LITHUANIA: AN OVERVIEW -- LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Coining EUropeanization -- Europeanizing Europe? -- Fieldwork and Field Sites -- Lithuania and the regions -- Suvalkija -- Dzūkija -- Early Influences from the EU -- Reconstructions of the National Identity -- "The Man of the Future" and Homo Sovieticus -- The Changing Image of the Lithuanian Farmer -- Harmonization and Inconsistencies -- Legal Pluralities in Everyday Life -- Practical Negotiations -- Social Security and Change -- Who Participates in EUrope? -- Aspects of Analysis -- Chapter 2 Small-Scale Farmers at the Geopolitical Return to Europe, 1990-2004 -- Collective Farming in Lithuania -- Independence and National Policy -- Laws on Privatization -- Theft and Administrative (Ab)Use of Property -- Surviving the Transition -- Case I -- Case II -- The Reconceptualization of the Lithuanian Farmer -- Reforms and Political Stands -- Preparing for Enlargement -- Key Problems for the Agricultural Sector -- The Maxima Referendum -- The Way to EUrope -- Chapter 3 Paradoxes of Aging: On Aging Farmers and Aging Politicians -- Paradoxes of Aging -- Meeting in Graižiūnai -- City Expert Meets Rural Citizens -- Contracts and Circumvention of Trust -- Meeting in Marijampolė -- Situational Alliances and Interface Encounters -- Multiple Faces on the Encounter -- Politics and Populism -- The Valstiečių Sąjunga - History and Conceptualization -- Political Front Figures -- Working Off-State to Achieve Goals On-State -- Romanticized Images of Peasant life -- Bridging between the Pre-Soviet Past and the EU-Present -- Entering New Dilemmas On-State -- The Local EUs -- Chapter 4 Effects of and Responses to the EU Programs in the Countryside -- The Armchair Farmers.

The Return to the Mini-Mansholt -- Attempts and Direct Effects -- The Lonely Cows -- "It is of no use for us" -- The Early Retirement Program -- The Family Jankauskas -- The Family Petrauskas -- Two Perspectives -- Supporting Subsistence Farming? -- Chapter 5 The Insiders and the Outsiders: EUropeanization of Products and People in the Marketplace -- Setting Standards - Making Persons -- Trading in Marijampolė -- Trading Inside -- Trading Outside -- Changing Spaces - Challenging Laws -- The Eight-Legged Pig -- Senses of Personhood -- Geopolitics of Food and Fashion -- Cheese Production and Conflicting Perceptions -- Conformed Diversification -- Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 6 "If you wish your son bad luck, give him your land": EUropeanization, Demographic Change and Social Security -- EUropeanization and Strengthening of Kinship Ties -- Aging Lithuania -- Gender Roles and Gendered Aging -- EUropeanization and Shifting Pension Arrangements -- The State Pension -- European Engagement -- The Urban Migrant -- The EU Migrants -- The Villager -- EUropeanization, Individualism and Parental Expectations -- Kinship Obligations and Emigration -- Chapter 7 "They told us we would be getting up on the high mountain": Concluding Remarks -- Going West? -- Coexisting Processes of Disintegration and Integration -- Reconceptualization of History -- The Locally Produced EUs -- How Do We Understand Processes of EUropeanization? -- Final Remarks -- Bibliography -- Index.

'New Lithuania in Old Hands' examines the impact Lithuania's EU membership has had upon the country's ageing small-scale farmers.

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