https://at-ceu.studyguide.timeedit.net/modules/DP_SO5030?type=COREThe topics discussed in the course will highlight transformations in global capitalism that have saliently affected Central and Eastern Europe since the collapse of the Berlin Wall. Inquiries on state practices in governing the economy and welfare provisions, and various regulatory and disciplinary practices will also be reviewed. The significance of selected social categories that embody and reflect upon hierarchization of groups in society will also be studied. The course will also explore the literature on societal reactions, popular imagination, coping mechanisms, and citizens' actions to forms and faces of inequalities. The course primarily relies on anthropological, sociological, and other anthropologically informed interpretations of inequality mechanisms by reviewing historical, political economy, and human geography scholarship as well. In addition, our attention will stretch to intersections of gender, racial, migration, welfare, and nationalism studies as well. The knowledge that the course builds will generate comparative insights without promising a balanced and thorough 'regional' overview. The course has an e-learning site titled Post-Cold-War Inequalities in CEE 2025/26. The full syllabus is available here. Part of the Social Justice and Human Rights specialization for MAPP and MPA