Book Presentation: "Back in the West"
04/22/2013 - 15:00 - 15:00
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A book entitled "Back in the West. Changing Lifestyles in Transforming
Societies" will be presented in auditorium M649 on 22 April at 16:00.This
book examines the changing lifestyles in transforming societies, focusing
on the interplay of lifestyle choices, social status and the society as a
whole. When individuals choose their careers, mates or networks to belong
to and to identify with, they are influenced by rapid technological
developments, economic uncertainty and other ongoing changes in society. On
the other hand, by their choices they also construct new social realities.
The book addresses lifestyles and social change in connection with a wide
range of issues: belonging to different movements and networks; changes in
gender order, work and partner choices; changes in home cultures and ways
of residing; emerging translocal belonging and cross cultural
relationships; consumption choices and construction of identities. The
first part of the book gives the wider context within a longer perspective
and the second part is focused on specific cases of lifestyle
choices.Contents:Airi-Alina Allaste/Andy Bennett: Lifestyles in Former
Socialist SocietyLeeni Hansson: From plan to market: major trends in life
satisfaction and subjective well-beingMaaris Raudsepp/Indrek Tart/Eda
Heinla: Continuity and change of value profiles in 1985-2008Katrin
Paadam/Liis Ojamäe: Continuities of residential cultures. Re-inventing
identities in single-family housesBarbi Pilvre: Estonian men’s lifestyle
magazine «Mees»: a manual of masculine identity in a transition
societyKatrin Paadam/Kristel Siilak/Liis Ojamäe: Social construction of
identities in a cross-cultural experience of creating and designing
homesMarion Pajumets/Jeff Hearn: Migrant career women’s discursive
(re)constructions of their domestic partners’ masculine identitiesKatrin
Tiidenberg: How does online experience inform our sense of self? NSFW
blogger identity narrativesKadri Aavik: Strategies for managing
difficulties related to employment: narratives of Russian-speaking women in
EstoniaAiri-Alina Allaste/Mikko Lagerspetz: Just how political is the
personal? Estonian eco-village activism as lifestyle and as life
politicsMaarja Kobin: Drinking culture among young Estonian adults.The book
is available on Amazon and other Internet bookshops.
For further information please contact:Professor Airi Alina-AllasteTallinn
University Institute of Internatinal and Social StudiesE-mail:
airi-alina.allaste@iiss.ee
Societies" will be presented in auditorium M649 on 22 April at 16:00.This
book examines the changing lifestyles in transforming societies, focusing
on the interplay of lifestyle choices, social status and the society as a
whole. When individuals choose their careers, mates or networks to belong
to and to identify with, they are influenced by rapid technological
developments, economic uncertainty and other ongoing changes in society. On
the other hand, by their choices they also construct new social realities.
The book addresses lifestyles and social change in connection with a wide
range of issues: belonging to different movements and networks; changes in
gender order, work and partner choices; changes in home cultures and ways
of residing; emerging translocal belonging and cross cultural
relationships; consumption choices and construction of identities. The
first part of the book gives the wider context within a longer perspective
and the second part is focused on specific cases of lifestyle
choices.Contents:Airi-Alina Allaste/Andy Bennett: Lifestyles in Former
Socialist SocietyLeeni Hansson: From plan to market: major trends in life
satisfaction and subjective well-beingMaaris Raudsepp/Indrek Tart/Eda
Heinla: Continuity and change of value profiles in 1985-2008Katrin
Paadam/Liis Ojamäe: Continuities of residential cultures. Re-inventing
identities in single-family housesBarbi Pilvre: Estonian men’s lifestyle
magazine «Mees»: a manual of masculine identity in a transition
societyKatrin Paadam/Kristel Siilak/Liis Ojamäe: Social construction of
identities in a cross-cultural experience of creating and designing
homesMarion Pajumets/Jeff Hearn: Migrant career women’s discursive
(re)constructions of their domestic partners’ masculine identitiesKatrin
Tiidenberg: How does online experience inform our sense of self? NSFW
blogger identity narrativesKadri Aavik: Strategies for managing
difficulties related to employment: narratives of Russian-speaking women in
EstoniaAiri-Alina Allaste/Mikko Lagerspetz: Just how political is the
personal? Estonian eco-village activism as lifestyle and as life
politicsMaarja Kobin: Drinking culture among young Estonian adults.The book
is available on Amazon and other Internet bookshops.
For further information please contact:Professor Airi Alina-AllasteTallinn
University Institute of Internatinal and Social StudiesE-mail:
airi-alina.allaste@iiss.ee