Zvyknúť si na Petržalku: každodenný život, bežná spotreba a vzťah k socialistickému sídlisku (Getting used to Petrzalka: everyday life, everyday consumption, and relationship to a socialist housing estate)

The paper interconnects studies of everyday life and everyday consumption and research on socialist housing estates. It is based on an ethnographic study of Petržalka, the biggest housing estate in Bratislava, located at the south bank of the river Danube. We develop two arguments. First, we focus on perception of the socialist housing estate by citizens of Bratislava, and analyse the role that everyday life and routine practices played in appropriating/getting used to this specific urban space. Also, we claim that everyday routine practices help creating the specific image of the housing estate in the eyes of the inhabitants. In the second plan, and in reaction to the literature on “lived socialism”, the paper argues for a more elaborate definition of socialist consumption that would reflect theories of everyday life.