Urban Hunters: Dealing and Dreaming in Times of Transition by Hojer, Lars

Urban Hunters: Dealing and Dreaming in Times of Transition (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780300196115)

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Urban Hunters: Dealing and Dreaming in Times of Transition by Hojer, Lars

Urban Hunters: Dealing and Dreaming in Times of Transition

$67.00
Urban Hunters: Dealing and Dreaming in Times of Transition by Hojer, Lars

Urban Hunters: Dealing and Dreaming in Times of Transition

$67.00
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: Lars Hojer, Morten Axel Pedersen
ISBN-10: 0300196113
ISBN-13: 9780300196115
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/26/2019
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.20w x 1.00d

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Choice 07/01/2020
By Lars Hojer
By Lars Hojer
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Lars Her is associate professor and deputy head at the Department for Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen, and the director of the Centre for Comparative Culture Studies. Morten Axel Pedersen is professor of social anthropology at the University of Copenhagen and a vice-director of the Copenhagen Centre for Social Data Science.

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