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Crisis and the everyday in postsocialist Moscow / Olga Shevchenko.
Van Pelt Library HN530.2.M67 S54 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shevchenko, Olga, 1974-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Post-communism.
- Moscow (Russia)--Social conditions.
- Moscow (Russia).
- Moscow (Russia)--Economic conditions.
- Post-communism--Russia (Federation)--Moscow.
- Russia (Federation)--Moscow.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 241 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2009]
- Summary:
- In this ethnography of postsocialist Moscow in the late 1990s, Olga Shevchenko draws on interviews with a cross section of Muscovites to describe how people made sense of the acute uncertainties of everyday life, and the new identities and competencies that emerged in response to these challenges. Ranging from consumption to daily rhetoric, and from urban geography to health care, this study illuminates the relationship between crisis and normality and adds a new dimension to the debates about postsocialist culture and politics.
- Contents:
- Introduction : living on a volcano
- How the crisis of socialism became a postsocialist crisis
- A state of emergency : the lived experience of postsocialist decline
- The routinization of crisis, or on the permanence of temporary conditions
- Permanent crisis, durable goods
- Building autonomy in everyday life
- What changes when life stands still.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-234) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780253352484
- 0253352487
- 9780253220288
- 0253220289
- OCLC:
- 216935787
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