Капитализам који се смањује, „млечни путеви“, и морално уважавање „живог села“ у Србији
Shrinking Capitalism, “Milky Ways”, and the Moral Appreciation of Serbia’s “Living Village”

Summary/Abstract: This ethnographic case study, building on long term participant observation in Serbia, tackles the relationship of the state and the regional economy during the transformations from self-managed socialism to late capitalism. Embedding the work relations of small-scale dairy farmers from central Serbia in wider moral economic relations, it develops the notion of ‘moral appreciation’ to explain how many households who disinvested from dairy production supported – through labour exchanges, by renting land cheaply, and by praising the frugality of those few others – who invested. Moral appreciation means living from and salvaging value from the devalued substance of work past and present, an adaptive process to capitalist substance-loss, potentially paralleled in many other spheres of the capitalist world economy.

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