Title
Between conflicting systems: An ordinary tragedy in now-capitalist Albania
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2019
Abstract
©2019 Berghahn Books. 'Business as usual' in contemporary Albania takes place between different and conflictingsystems of meaning and value. Drawing from ethnographic material collected in Tirana, Albania,this article examines the complexities of social and economic life in a city where distinct moral economies routinely clash with the capitalist principle of profit. Starting from the ethnographic impulse to learn how two local booksellers made sense of the contradictory systems of meaning operating in their everyday lives, the analysis shows how a grinding of discordant value systems produced the more general paradox of an 'ordinary tragedy'.
Recommended Citation
Rosen, Matthew, "Between conflicting systems: An ordinary tragedy in now-capitalist Albania" (2019). Sociology & Anthropology Open Access Publications. 4.
https://ohioopen.library.ohio.edu/sociology-anthropology-oapub/4