{"id":14225,"date":"2021-02-15T13:00:45","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T11:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tspmi.vu.lt\/?page_id=14225\/"},"modified":"2021-06-25T12:30:40","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T09:30:40","slug":"international-conference-workshop-cfp-transformation-narratives-beyond-winners-losers-deep-stories-central-eastern-europe","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.tspmi.vu.lt\/en\/conferences\/international-conference-workshop-cfp-transformation-narratives-beyond-winners-losers-deep-stories-central-eastern-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"International conference and workshop \u201cTransformation Narratives Beyond Winners and Losers: Deep Stories in Central and Eastern Europe\u201d (archive)"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":14229,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-admission.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14225","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"tekstas":"","info_blocks":[{"name":"About the event","content_left":false,"content_right":[{"acf_fc_layout":"text_block","text":"

Recently, liberal democratic governance has been seriously challenged by populist political actors. The rise of populism in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) can be at least partially attributed to the post-communist transformation of the 1990. This transformative period has led not only to feelings of enthusiasm, excitement, and euphoria (Trnka 2012) but also constituted \u201ccultural trauma\u201d for the affected societies (Sztompka 2000), especially individuals and groups who experienced a status loss or decline of living standards. In popular and to some extent, scientific discourse (see e.g. Jarosz 2005) they are often described as the \u201closers\u201d (in contrast to the \u201cwinners\u201d) of the transformation. Being negatively affected by the systemic and economic transition is viewed as a key explanatory variable of the recent rise of populism in post-socialist societies in particular (see e.g. \u00c1gh 2016; Minkenberg 2017), and populist support in general (see e.g. Kriesi et al. 2006; Norris & Inglehart 2019).<\/p>\n

However, it has also been noted that the winners\/losers categorization itself is rooted in the dominant neo-liberal paradigm (Ka\u017amierska 2019), and not necessarily reflects \u201clived experiences\u201d of affected individuals. When people in the CEE region report how they feel about the change of political regime and current lives in their own words, their narratives neither replicate the winners\/losers distinction nor allow for a simple attribution of the speaker to either side of this division. Instead of measuring their biographical trajectories in economic or material terms only, they talk about victories in personal and professional lives; about values such as dignity and social recognition; about regular, adapted and inconspicuous, lives (see e.g. Marody et al. 2019). Thus, we posit that the understanding of the current political dynamics in the CEE region can be advanced by investigating \u201cdeep stories\u201d (Hochschild 2016), that is, personal \u201ctruth\u201d experiences, \u201cfeels-as-if stories\u201d (Ibid.), frequently narrated through emotions:<\/p>\n