Nicolette Makovicky

Nicolette Makovicky is Departmental Lecturer in Russian and East European Studies at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies. She researches the survival and adaptation of historically embedded modes of economic activity in Central Europe, particularly artisanal crafts and transhumant pastoralism. She has published on themes including gender, labour, ethics, informal economy, entrepreneurialism in Slovakia and Poland. She is the editor of Neoliberalism, Personhood, Postsocialism: Enterprising Selves in Changing Economies (Ashgate, 2014), and co-editor of Economies of Favour after Socialism (University of Oxford Press, 2016) and Slogans: Subjection, Subversion and the Politics of Neoliberalism (Routledge, 2018). Dr Makovicky has benefitted from funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Economic and Social Research Council, the Danish Research Agency, the Nuffield Foundation, The John Fell Fund, and the Pasold Research Fund.