@article{ref1,
title="Shame and the Experience of Ambivalence on the Margins of the Global: Pathologizing the Past and Present in Romania's Industrial Wastelands",
journal="Ethos",
year="2007",
author="Friedman, Jack R.",
volume="35",
number="2",
pages="235-264",
abstract="This article examines shame in a context of political—economic decline (Jiu Valley, Romania). I argue that shame, which is traditionally associated with a &quot;shrinking&quot; feeling and social control, can take on a dual resonance for people situated in socioeconomic conditions of moral disorder. Shame can act as both a personal experience of self-defeat as well as acting as a medium for critiquing the very system of socioeconomic norms and cultural values that work to make one feel ashamed. Using data drawn from research among coal miners in post-state socialist Romania, this article illustrates how discourses associated with shame can be viewed as a critical understanding of the culturally meaningful experience of marginalization from and the ambivalence of global processes.<p />",
language="",
issn="0091-2131",
doi="10.1525/eth.2007.35.2.235",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/eth.2007.35.2.235"
}