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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Post-socialism"”.
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The Wounds of Post-Socialism: The Political Economy of Mortality and Survival in Deindustrialising Towns in Hungary
… I examine the political economy of the post-socialist mortality crisis as experienced in deindustrialising towns in Hungary. I develop and apply a relational political economy of health framework, putting emphasis on the economic institutions of post-socialist dependent capitalism in …
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"""Civil"" Societies and ""Evil"" States: Ambiguities of Women's NGO Organizing and Patriarchy in Post -Soviet Ukraine"
… practices that configure new social orders in post-Soviet countries. My dissertation adds to studies of local organizational practices, transnational interventions, and the production and consumption of discourses while contributing to cross-cultural studies of institution building and ""civil …
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Yugoslav war cinema : shooting a nation which no longer exists
… cinema shifted away from the events of WW II to post-war Yugoslavia and the brutal anti-Stalinist purges following Yugoslavia's break with the Cominform. With the disintegration of Yugoslavia, "Yugoslav" cinema faced an uncertain future. Post-socialism marked the re-emergence of the war film …
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'Body work' : a history of sport and physical culture in colonial and postcolonial Laos
… gender and the body at the centre of colonial, postcolonial and socialist subjectivity. The ubiquity of these ideas and practices throughout the twentieth century has demonstrated an on-going concern with physicality, transformed by the cosmologies, epistemologies and ideologies that have …
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'Body work' : a history of sport and physical culture in colonial and postcolonial Laos
… gender and the body at the centre of colonial, postcolonial and socialist subjectivity. The ubiquity of these ideas and practices throughout the twentieth century has demonstrated an on-going concern with physicality, transformed by the cosmologies, epistemologies and ideologies that have …
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While the State Claims the Intimate: Population Control Policy and the Makings of Chinese Modernity
… account of the human experience of China’s post-socialism and associated globalizing efforts as they are reconfigured in the seemingly intimate space of reproduction. At the heart of the broad socioeconomic transformations that underpin China’s unexpected rise in the global economy lies a …
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Institutional Dynamics of State-Minority Relations in Slovakia and Azerbaijan
… how the newly independent states in the broader post-Soviet and post-socialist space developed their institutional frameworks for national minorities. For this purpose, it draws empirically from two case studies – Slovakia and Azerbaijan as examples of states which followed similar historical and …
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Fitness Culture: Making New Persons in Quasi-Socialist Belarus
… shaping subjectivities and social relations in post-Soviet Belarus. Belarus, which is located on the fault line between Russia and the EU, has so far not transitioned to anything resembling either capitalism or democracy. While the possibility for political change has seemed nearly unimaginable …
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Alternative economies in rural Russia
… jako náhrada sociální reprodukce v rurálním post-socialistickém Rusku. V prostředí farmy, na které jsem prováděla terénní výzkum, se objevuje řada směn a transakcí, mezi nimiž jsou kryptoměny, studované zde jako sociomateriální algoritmy, zapojovány do redistribučních sítí zboží a služeb …
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Poverty and Work Experiences of Roma in Romania : A Study Through the Lens of Field, Habitus, Capital, and Anomie in a Roma Community in Romania
… of poverty and work among Roma in the context of post-socialist Romania through the lens of Merton´s modes of adaptation to anomie and Bourdieu´s concepts of field, habitus, and capital. The purpose is to investigate Roma remembrance of work in the former communist regime and explore how they …
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Moral Economy Meets Global Economy: Negotiating Risk, Vulnerability and Sustainable Livelihood among Shrimp Farming Households in Vietnam's Mekong Delta
<p>Market liberalization has enabled Vietnam to make substantial economic improvements, but it has also widened wealth disparities. My dissertation examines the process of social differentiation among shrimp farming households in Vietnam's Mekong Delta. I use the ways these households perceive and …
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Healing by a National Nature in "Disorganized" Mongolia
… sanatoria. This work contributes to studies of post-socialist Mongolia in a few ways. The methodological decision to engage in interview and participant observation of fortunetellers (üzmerch), practitioners of Buddhist and traditional medicine (otoch, ardiin emch), astrologists (zurhaich), …
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Transylvanian Baroque: Liberalism and its Others in Rural Romania
This thesis is an exploration of liberalism in Romania and in anthropology. Liberalism is frequently represented in contemporary anthropology as a hegemonic technocratic practice, rationalist ideology and hypocritically exclusionary politics. I challenge this representation through an ethnography …
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Aspiring Muslims in Russia: Form-of-Life and Political Ecoonomy of Virtue in Povolzhye's Halal Movement
… have been Sunni Muslims for centuries, the post-Soviet emergence of cosmopolitan, scripturalist piety trends – which I collectively refer to as Povolzhye’s ‘halal movement’ – has raised unprecedented concerns and disputes about the meaning of Muslimness and the place of Muslims in Russian …