Urban Hunters

Dealing and Dreaming in Times of Transition

von Lars Hojer, Morten Axel Pedersen

288 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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

• Reihe: Yale University Press
• ISBN: 9780300196115
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.11.2019
• Größe: 234 x 156 mm
• Verlag: Yale University Press