Urban hunters : dealing and dreaming in times of transition / Lars Højer and Morten Axel Pedersen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Højer, Lars, author.

Pedersen, Morten Axel, 1969- author.

Series:

Eurasia past and present

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Post-communism.

Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia)--Social conditions--20th century.

Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia).

Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia)--Economic conditions--20th century.

Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia)--Social life and customs.

Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia)--History.

Post-communism--Mongolia--Ulaanbaatar.

Economic history.

Manners and customs.

Social conditions.

Mongolia--Ulaanbaatar.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 270 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]

Summary:

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 Hojer and Morten Axel Pedersen present a new theorization of social agency in postsocialist as well as postcolonial contexts.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0300196113

9780300196115

OCLC:

1089574127