New Lithuania in Old Hands

Ida Harboe Knudsen is a postdoctoral fellow at Aarhus University, Denmark (financed by the Danish Independent Research Council) and an affiliated researcher at Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania.

• Acknowledgments; Lithuania: An Overview; List of Tables and Figures; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Small-Scale Farmers at the Geopolitical Return to Europe, 1990–2004; Chapter 3. Paradoxes of Aging: On Aging Farmers and Aging Politicians; Chapter 4. Effects of and Responses to the EU Programs in the Countryside; Chapter 5. The Insiders and the Outsiders: EUropeanization of Products and People in the Marketplace; Chapter 6. “If you wish your son bad luck, give him your land”: EUropeanization, Demographic Change and Social Security; Chapter 7. “They told us we would be getting up on the high mountain”: Concluding Remarks; Bibliography; Index

‘[An] enlightening account of the interplay of the Soviet and European Unions in the Lithuanian countryside. […This] study successfully challenges the official narrative of “New Lithuania” and the view of an integrated European Union in which each member state effectively mirrors every other in terms of policies and their implementation.’ —Anton Masterovoy, ‘Anthropology of East Europe Review’