Urban Hunters : Dealing and Dreaming in Times of Transition
Urban Hunters : Dealing and Dreaming in Times of Transition
by Lars Hojer and Morten Axel Pedersen
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0300196113 | 285 Pages | PDF | 4.16 MB
by Lars Hojer and Morten Axel Pedersen
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0300196113 | 285 Pages | PDF | 4.16 MB
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 Hojer and Morten Axel Pedersen present a new theorization of social agency in postsocialist as well as postcolonial contexts.
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