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Brown, Andrew J.

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Existing on Ogorodnaia Street: Accommodations and confrontations with a post-Soviet economy.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Existing on Ogorodnaia Street: Accommodations and confrontations with a post-Soviet economy./
Author:	Brown, Andrew J.
Description:	251 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 60-11, Section: A, page: 4069.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International60-11A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9949685
ISBN:	9780599517325

Existing on Ogorodnaia Street: Accommodations and confrontations with a post-Soviet economy.
Brown, Andrew J.

Existing on Ogorodnaia Street: Accommodations and confrontations with a post-Soviet economy. - 251 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 60-11, Section: A, page: 4069.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, San Diego, 1999.

This is an ethnography of coping strategies centered on the mechanics of everyday economic and social life. The research was primarily conducted among 18 households of an urban neighborhood in Almaty, Kazakstan between October 1994 and August 1996. The analysis organizes itself around particular, basic goals, such as shelter, food, money and medical care and seeks to describe the rich repertoire of strategies through which people acted to try to secure these desired goods, and more broadly how they manipulated the narrow resources which they had at hand into meeting the more extensive range of goals and desires which structured their actions. Within generalizeable patterns, individuals and households presented their own unique arrangement of priorities, of idiosyncratic desires, of varying degrees of ambition and complacency, etc. This is an ethnography of the particular, the day to day, the narrowly contingent, but the particularities described here are nonetheless idiosyncratic engagements with greater processes---the impingements of capitalism, globalization and the sweep of Soviet and post-Soviet history. The study challenges facile assumptions about a "transition" from a Soviet socialist command economy to a Westernizing market economy. The ways of living described here are more complex continuations of a habitus emergent from the Soviet past transforming through adaptations and experiments undertaken in the present. I argue that it is here, in newly emerging patterns of economic and social practice that analysts must look to understand the ongoing contestation of economic, social, political and ideological roles that are being negotiated for individuals, families, communities and societies. We need to look at the realm of everyday strategizing in order to understand the symbolic and practical emplacement of people within larger contexts such as patterns of power and acquiescence, of citizenship and state, of social contract and civilized behavior, etc.

ISBN: 9780599517325Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

Existing on Ogorodnaia Street: Accommodations and confrontations with a post-Soviet economy.
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