Settlers on the Edge

Identity and Modernization on Russia's Arctic Frontier

von Niobe Thompson

316 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Based on extensive research in the Arctic Russian region of Chukotka, Settlers on the Edge is the first English-language account of settler life anywhere in the circumpolar north to appear since Robert Paine's The White Arctic (1977), and the first to explore the experiences of Soviet-era migrants to the far north. Niobe Thompson describes the remarkable transformation of a population once dedicated to establishing colonial power on a northern frontier into a rooted community of locals now resisting a renewed colonial project. He also provides unique insights into the future of identity politics in the Arctic, the role of resource capital and the oligarchs in the Russian provinces, and the fundamental human questions of belonging and transience.

• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie und Anthropologie Anthropologie Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie
• ISBN: 9780774814676
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 28.05.2008
• Größe: 229 x 155 mm
• Verlag: University of British Columbia Press