Urban hunters : dealing and dreaming in times of transition /

Højer, Lars

Urban hunters : dealing and dreaming in times of transition / Lars Højer and Morten Axel Pedersen - xii, 270 p. : illustrations ; 25 cm - Eurasia past and present .

Ulaanbaatar = Ulan-Bator = Oulan-Bator.

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

9780300196115 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0300196113 (hardcover : alk. paper)


Postcolonialismo--Ulán Bator (Mongolia)


Ulán Bator (Mongolia) --Condiciones sociales --Siglo XX
Ulán Bator (Mongolia) --Condiciones económicas --Siglo XX.
Ulán Bator (Mongolia) --Vida social y costumbres
Ulán Bator (Mongolia) --Historia
Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia) --Historia

424 DS 798.9 / H719u 2019