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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"postsocialism"”.
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The Repeasantization of an Uzbek Kolkhoz: An Ethnographic Account of Postsocialism
By comparing modern historical vicissitudes, the ways in which socio-cultural life (including demographic features, holidays and life-cycle celebrations) has altered from a decade ago, and the decline of key food resources over the same period, the author provides readers with a number of …
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Longing and belonging : an ethnographic study of migration, cultural capital and social change among Ho Chi Minh City's re-emerging middle classes
… secondly, aims to consider the possibilities of postsocialism in Vietnam, especially in urban social life.
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Cuisine Worlds: Professional Cooking, Public Eating, and the Production of Culture in Contemporary Moscow
… anthropologies of food, visual communication, postsocialism, and globalization, my project suggests how ethnography and micro-analysis of the visual, sensual, performative, and structural dimensions of cultural production can open critical understandings of the complex and shifting interactions …
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For many are called, and few are chosen: eternity and peoplehood amongst Orthodox Christians in Serbia
… of the anthropologies of Christianity and Postsocialism, makes two tightly interlocking claims: one concerning the temporality of Orthodox life and the other concerning a conception of the Serbian people (srpski narod), seen by my interlocutors as a historically-rooted, moral-cum-ethnic …
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Hegemony and Culturedness: Elites after Socialism in Mongolia.
This thesis asks: how did a tiny minority, the 'oligarchic' elite of Mongolia, manage to dominate the economic and political life of the nation for over three decades since the transition to liberal democracy in 1990? With Mongolian media reporting that 99.6% of shares listed on the Mongolian Stock …
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Negotiating Responsibility: Ethics of Choice and Care in Postsocialist Oncology Wards in Serbia
This dissertation problematizes the, often taken for granted, assumptions about individual agency in the realms of the body, disease and medicine. I show that ethics of care, as framed in contemporary Serbian postsocialist context, serves as a unique example of simultaneously coexisting ideas about …
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Lithuanian women in the Parliament: Access and participation in post-socialist politics
<p>This thesis examines women’s access and representation in Lithuania’s parliament. It sets out to discuss women’s abilities to influence and initiate policies and laws that protect and empower women in Lithuania. I examine elected parliamentarians’ motivations, as well as campaigns, and projects …
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“Renovating” Moscow’s Soviet-era Standardised Housing: The Creation and Destruction of Anachronistic Space
In 2017, the Moscow municipality announced the demolition of several thousand Soviet-era, standardised flats (*khrushchevki*). Known as the Renovation, the project promised to replace the *khrushchevki* with new residential districts. The municipality justifies the Renovation by claiming that the …
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Hallucinating the Ukrainian Cityscape: A Reevaluation of Walter Benjamin’s Urban Experience for a Postsocialist Context
This thesis project explores the correspondence between Walter Benjamin’s conception of modern urban experience and postsocialist representations of urban space in Ukrainian literature. By examining how urban experience influences the mobilization of formal strategies in literature and critical …
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Mobile Ethnicity: The Formation of the Korean Chinese Transnational Migrant Class
<p>This dissertation, Mobile Ethnicity, examines the formation of a transnational ethnic working class and the dynamics of remittance development in the context of Korean Chinese labor migration between China and Korea. I conducted multi-sited field research for over two years, mainly in Seoul, …
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The Wounds of Post-Socialism: The Political Economy of Mortality and Survival in Deindustrialising Towns in Hungary
Background: In this dissertation 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 …
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Song hunters in Svaneti: Musical tourism and other intercultural encounters in highland Georgia
This dissertation analyzes the continuities and disjunctures between pre-socialist, socialist, and neoliberal Georgia, as exemplified in intersubjective, intracultural, and intercultural encounters between singers and musicians. It approaches these dynamics through an in-depth ethnographic …
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Conceptualising morality and moral order: moral transformations in Russia, 1976 to 2021
The study is driven by the research question: what are the moral transformations in Russia from the late Soviet period to the present? In order to answer that question, the study is organised around three themes and contributions. First, the thesis develops a conceptualisation of morality. It …
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Aside from the norm: artistic sexual/gender dissent and nonnormative formations in Ukraine.
This thesis is an interdisciplinary contribution to the historical and cultural sociology of (nonnormative) sexuality and gender in Ukraine. It engages with figures and collectives situated what I describe as ‘aside from the norm’ in terms of their transgression of the gender/sex system, and in the …
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Voices of the War in Donbas: Exploring Identities in the Affected Communities Through the Prism of War Songs
This thesis examines identity work in the ongoing war in the Donbas region of Ukraine. It takes as its object of study a corpus of songs about the conflict representative of the key political and military actors involved: Ukraine, Russia and the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People’s …