Urban Hunters: Dealing and Dreaming in Times of Transition
(Part of the Eurasia Past and Present Series)
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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 H jer and Morten Axel Pedersen present a new theorization of social agency in postsocialist as well as postcolonial contexts.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0300196113
ISBN13:9780300196115
Release Date:November 2019
Publisher:Yale University Press
Length:288 Pages
Weight:1.20 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.2" x 9.4"
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