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Urban Hunters: Dealing and Dreaming in Times of Transition

Urban Hunters: Dealing and Dreaming in Times of Transition

Hojer, Lars
Pedersen, Morten Axel

Hardcover

Series: Eurasia Past and Present

EconomicsCentral Asian HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0300196113
ISBN13: 9780300196115
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Published: Nov 1 2019
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.20
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
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.

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