Urban Hunters: Dealing and Dreaming in Times of Transition (Eurasia Past and Present) - Hardcover

Hjer, Lars; Pedersen, Morten Axel

 
9780300196115: Urban Hunters: Dealing and Dreaming in Times of Transition (Eurasia Past and Present)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0300196113 ISBN 13: 9780300196115
Verlag: Yale University Press, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

An ethnography of the Mongolian capital city of Ulaanbaatar during the nation’s transition from socialism to a market-based economic system

Urban Hunters is an ethnography of the Mongolian capital city, Ulaanbaatar, during the nation’s transition from socialism to a market-based economic system. Following the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991, Mongolia entered a period of economic chaos characterized by wild inflation, disappearing banks, and closing farms, factories, and schools. During this time of widespread poverty, a generation of young adults came of age. In exploring the social, cultural, and existential ramifications of a transition that has become permanent and acquired a logic of its own, Lars Højer and Morten Axel Pedersen present a new theorization of social agency in postsocialist as well as postcolonial contexts.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Lars Højer is associate professor and deputy head at the Department for Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen, and the director of the Centre for Comparative Culture Studies. Morten Axel Pedersen is professor of social anthropology at the University of Copenhagen and a vice-director of the Copenhagen Centre for Social Data Science.

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Verlag
Yale University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0300196113
ISBN 13 
9780300196115
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
270
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