Philipp Ther , Ulf Brunnbauer , Piotr Filipkowski , Andrew Hodges , Stefano Petrungaro , Peter Wegenschimmel

In the Throes of Transformation

Two Shipyards between Socialism and EU

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Philipp Ther , Ulf Brunnbauer , Piotr Filipkowski , Andrew Hodges , Stefano Petrungaro , Peter Wegenschimmel

In the Throes of Transformation / In den Stürmen der Transformation

Two Shipyards between Socialism and EU

»Transformation also implies a change of sensory worlds.«

The gigantic cranes in the shipyards of Gdynia and Pula were the pride of these two cities until just recently. They helped build 300-metre-long ocean liners in the Polish city of Gdynia, and ships used to transport thousands of sheep alive from New Zealand to Europe – complete with a desalination plant – in Pula, Croatia. But all the inventiveness and the talent for improvisation practised to perfection under socialism were of no use: soon after joining the EU, the shipyards went bankrupt, partly because competition law counts for more than a global industrial policy in Brussels.

The »Shipyard Collective« led by Ulf Brunnbauer and Philipp Ther delves deep into the everyday life of the two companies. The social scientists and historians reconstruct their decline and analyse the great transformation that has been unsettling Europe since the 1970s.

2022, 419 pages

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Philipp Ther

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Philipp Ther, born in 1967, teaches Modern European and East European History at the University of Vienna. He has already published five books in English, and his publications have been translated into various other languages. He has received several prizes and awards, including the John-F.-Kennedy Fellowship at the Center for European Studies, Harvard University (in 1997/98), the 2012 Translation Award of the German Book Trade Association for Die dunkle Seite der Nationalstaaten: ›ethnische Säuberungen‹ im modernen Europa, which was also nominated as Academic Non-Fiction Book of the Year (2018, category Humanities, Social and Cultural Science) by the Austrian Ministry for Science, Reseach and Economy. He received the 2015 Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair for...

Philipp Ther

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Philipp Ther, born in 1967, teaches Modern European and East European History at the University of Vienna. He has already published five books in...

Ulf Brunnbauer

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Ulf Brunnbauer (Regensburg), Piotr Filipkowski (Warsaw), Andrew Hodges (Edinburgh), Stefano Petrungaro (Venice), Philipp Ther (Vienna) and Peter Wegenschimmel (Hannover) have researched the history of the shipyards as part of their project »Transformations from Below«.

Ulf Brunnbauer

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