Binding: Hardcover
Description: 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.
Title: Urban Hunters Dealing And Dreaming In Times Of Transition
Author(s): Pedersen Morten Axel
Publisher: Yale University Press
Barcode: 9780300196115
Pages: 288 Pages, 28 B-W Illus.
Publication Date: 11/26/2019
Series: Eurasia Past and Present
Category: Economic History