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  • - The Informal Practices That Shaped Post-Soviet Politics and Business
    av Alena V. Ledeneva
    499 - 1 692,-

    Ledeneva explores practices in politics, business, media, and the legal sphere in Russia in the 1990s.

  • - Baby Food, Big Business, and the Remaking of Labor
    av Elizabeth Cullen Dunn
    425,-

    The transition from socialism in Eastern Europe is not an isolated event, but part of a larger shift in world capitalism: the transition from Fordism to flexible (or neoliberal) capitalism. Using a blend of ethnography and economic geography, Elizabeth C. Dunn shows how management technologies like niche marketing, accounting, audit, and standardization make up flexible capitalism's unique form of labor discipline. This new form of management constitutes some workers as self-auditing, self-regulating actors who are disembedded from a social context while defining others as too entwined in social relations and unable to self-manage.Privatizing Poland examines the effects privatization has on workers' self-concepts; how changes in "e;personhood"e; relate to economic and political transitions; and how globalization and foreign capital investment affect Eastern Europe's integration into the world economy. Dunn investigates these topics through a study of workers and changing management techniques at the Alima-Gerber factory in Rzeszow, Poland, formerly a state-owned enterprise, which was privatized by the Gerber Products Company of Fremont, Michigan.Alima-Gerber instituted rigid quality control, job evaluation, and training methods, and developed sophisticated distribution techniques. The core principle underlying these goals and strategies, the author finds, is the belief that in order to produce goods for a capitalist market, workers for a capitalist enterprise must also be produced. Working side-by-side with Alima-Gerber employees, Dunn saw firsthand how the new techniques attempted to change not only the organization of production, but also the workers' identities. Her seamless, engaging narrative shows how the employees resisted, redefined, and negotiated work processes for themselves.

  • - Nation, War, and Loss in Russia
    av Serguei Alex. Oushakine
    253,-

    Examines the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union, graphically described in spray paint by a graffiti artist in Barnaul: "We have no Motherland." Once socialism disappeared as a way of understanding the world, what replaced it in people's minds?

  • - Biopolitics, Eurasianism, and the Construction of Community in Modern Russia
    av Mark Bassin
    270 - 1 706,-

    In The Gumilev Mystique, Mark Bassin investigates the complex structure of Lev Gumilev's theories, revealing how they reflected and helped shape a variety of academic as well as political and social discourses in the USSR, and he traces how his authority has grown yet greater across the former Soviet Union.

  • - Spatial Lives of the State in Rural Central Asia
    av Madeleine Reeves
    430 - 1 446,-

    Through an ethnography of social and spatial practice at the limits of the state, this book explores the contested work of producing and policing "territorial integrity" when significant stretches of new international borders remain to be conclusively demarcated or effectively policed.

  • - Ukrainians and Global Evangelism
    av Catherine Wanner
    528 - 1 692,-

    After decades of official atheism, a religious renaissance swept through much of the former Soviet Union beginning in the late 1980s. The Calvinist-like austerity and fundamentalist ethos that had evolved among sequestered and frequently persecuted...

  • - Spirit Worlds and Political Lives in Northern Mongolia
    av Morten Axel Pedersen
    447 - 1 446,-

  • - Cultural Histories of Sovereignty in Russia and the Caucasus
    av Bruce Grant
    394 - 1 706,-

    Bruce Grant explores the long relationship between Russia and the Caucasus and the means by which sovereignty has been exercised in this contested area.

  • - Identity, Religion, and Modernity in the Republic of Georgia
    av Mathijs Pelkmans
    422 - 1 706,-

    This book, one of the first in English about everyday life in the Republic of Georgia, describes how people construct identity in a rapidly changing border region.

  • - Sex and Violence in Contemporary Russian Popular Culture
    av Eliot Borenstein
    430 - 1 692,-

    Borenstein argues that the popular cultural products consumed in the post-perestroika era were more than just diversions; they allowed Russians to indulge their despair over economic woes and everyday threats.

  • - Language Politics and Cultural Correction in Ukraine
    av Laada Bilaniuk
    502,-

    During the controversial 2004 elections that led to the "Orange Revolution" in Ukraine, cultural and linguistic differences threatened to break apart the country. Contested Tongues explains the complex linguistic and cultural politics in a bilingual...

  • - Property and Value in Postsocialist Transylvania
    av Katherine Verdery
    460,-

    In most countries in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, the fall of communism opened up the possibility for individuals to acquire land. Based on Katherine Verdery's extensive fieldwork between 1990 and 2001, The Vanishing Hectare explores...

  • - Music, Culture, and Community in Unsettled Times
    av Michael Urban
    406 - 1 692,-

    Michael Urban chronicles the advent of blues music in Russia and explores the significance of the genre in the turbulent, postcommunist society. Russians, he explains, have taken a music originating in the "low" culture of the American South and...

  • - Everyday Economies after Socialism
    av Caroline Humphrey
    394 - 1 706,-

    In order to understand today's Russia and former Soviet republics, it is vital to consider their socialist past. Caroline Humphrey, one of anthropology's most highly regarded thinkers on a number of topics including consumption, identity, and ritual...

  • - Homelessness and Humanness in Post-Socialist Russia
    av Tova Hojdestrand
    381 - 1 706,-

    This book offers a nuanced portrait of homelessness in St. Petersburg. Based on ethnographic work at railway stations, soup kitchens, and other places where the homeless gather, it describes the material and mental world of this marginalized population.

  • - Nation, War, and Loss in Russia
    av Serguei Alex Oushakine
    381 - 1 706,-

    Examines the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union, graphically described in spray paint by a graffiti artist in Barnaul: "We have no Motherland." Once socialism disappeared as a way of understanding the world, what replaced it in people's minds?

  • - A Historical Ethnography of Ethics in the Urals
    av Douglas Rogers
    443 - 1 706,-

    The Old Faith and the Russian Land is a historical ethnography that charts the ebbs and flows of ethical practice in a small Russian town, Sepych, over three centuries.

  • - Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union
    av Francine Hirsch
    394 - 1 446,-

    In Empire of Nations, Francine Hirsch examines the ways in which former imperial ethnographers and local elites provided the Bolsheviks with ethnographic knowledge that shaped the very formation of the new Soviet Union.

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