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The author discusses the military professionalization of the Czech Armed Forces as a large-scale socio-political process of change that involved efforts both on the part of the Czech state officials and the media aimed at improving the deprived position of the Czech military in the public sphere and culture. These efforts focussed on the obliteration of the cultural idiom of Švejk — a literary hero of Jaroslav Hašek's novel of the 1920s, and the representation of peaceful resistance to war and military violence. In the course of the 20th century Švejk had become one of the most pervasive cultural references for popular laughter at oppressive military power and has been a leading cultural idiom for the Czechs during the thirty years of German and Soviet military occupations. The article shows how the current official efforts at changing the image of the Czech military focus on the obliteration of Švejk's cultural idiom, bringing him so frequently into the public discourse that they produce a phantom-like effect in which Švejk has come to haunt the process directed precisely at his expurgation.

On rethinking ethnography in Central Europe : Towards cosmopolitan anthropologies in the "peripheries" / Michal Buchowski and Hana Cervinkova -- Othering the self : National identity and social class in mobile lives / Marek Pawlak -- Re-negotiating symbolic capital, status, and knowledge : Polish physicians in Sweden / Katarzyna Wolanik Boström and Magnus Öhlander -- Mobile entrepreneurs : Transnational Vietnamese in the Czech Republic / Gertrud Hüwelmeier -- Pavlivka iodine spring water : Transnational entrepreneurship in post-transition contexts / Zdenek Uherek and Veronika Beranská -- Giving birth in Berlin : Reproductive experiences of Polish migrant women / Izabella Main -- New urban activism in Slovakia : The case of Banská Bystrica / Alexandra Bituiíková -- Feminist and queer sex therapy : The ethnography of expert knowledge of sexuality in Poland / Agnieszka Koscianska -- Civil society and EU integration of Serbia : Toward a historical anthropology of globalizing post-socialist Europe / Marek Mikus -- On the road : Polish modernization from the perspective of the anthropology of the motorway / Waldemar Kuligowski and Agata Stanisz -- Ethnography of post-socialist rural change : Social memory, modernity, local empowerment, and internal displacement / Hana Horáková -- Dalai-Lamaism : An Orientalist construction of post-socialist consciousness / Martin Hríbek -- Afterword / Michal Buchowski and Hana Cervinkova

This edited volume is a result of the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network project "European Doctorate in Teacher Education", supported by the European Union's flagship initiative Horizon 2020. Based on the transnational collaboration of five partner universities, namely Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) Budapest, University of Lower Silesia (ULS), University of Lisbon (ULisboa), University of Innsbruck (UIBK) and Masaryk University (MU), EDiTE formed an innovative network for the academic professional development of emerging researchers through the exchange of knowledge across conventional boundaries. In this volume you will find individually written chapters by the EDiTE researchers that reflect the research results from the European comparative perspective and joint programme experience. PART I of the volume introduces the project consortium, researchers (Early Stage Researchers and Self-Funded Researches) and their way to become independent scholars. In PART II Researching Policy and Practice the authorship was given to the researchers who over the course of three years carried on transnational research concerning the common understanding of EDiTE research theme – Transformative Teacher Learning for Better Student Learning in an Emerging European Context.

Now that nearly twenty years have passed since the collapse of the Soviet bloc there is a need to understand what has taken place since that historic date and where we are at the moment. Bringing together authors with different historical, cultural, regional and theoretical backgrounds, this volume engages in debates that address new questions arising from recent developments, such as whether there is a need to reject or uphold the notion of post-socialism as both a necessary and valid concept ignoring changes and differences across both time and space. The authors' firsthand ethnographies from their own countries belie such a simplistic notion, revealing, as they do, the cultural, social, and historical diversity of countries of Central and Southeastern Europe