Urban Hunters (eBook)

Dealing and Dreaming in Times of Transition

Hojer Lars Hojer, Pedersen Morten Axel Pedersen (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
320 Seiten
Yale University Press (Verlag)
978-0-300-24955-2 (ISBN)

Infos

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.11.2019
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• ISBN-10: 0-300-24955-1 / 0300249551
• ISBN-13: 978-0-300-24955-2 / 9780300249552