Childhood held a special place in Soviet society: seen as the key to a better future, children were imagined as the only privileged class. That is why the rapid emergence in post-Soviet Russia of the vast numbers of social orphansA" or children left without parental care,A" children who have living relatives but grow up in residential care...
Childhood held a special place in Soviet society: seen as the key to a better future, children were imagined as the only privileged class. That is why the rapid emergence in post-Soviet Russia of the vast numbers of social orphansA" or children left without parental care,A" children who have living relatives but grow up in residential care...Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Elena Khlinovskaya Rockhill was born in Russia and first trained as a Biologist. In 2004 she received her Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from Darwin College, Cambridge University. From 2004-2007 she worked as a Research Associate at the Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge University. She was a 2007 Wenner-Gren Hunt Postdoctoral Fellow, and a PI for an ESF-funded international project 'Moved by the State: Perspectives on Relocation and Resettlement in the Circumpolar North' at the University of Alberta, Canada (2007-2010).
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List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgements Notes on Transliteration List of Acronyms and Abbreviations Introduction * The Scope of the Problem What is this Study About? * Time Line: Soviet and Post-Soviet Notes on Methodology * Theoretical and Conceptual Framework PART I: BECOMING A SOCIAL ORPHAN Chapter 1. A Brief History of Family Policy in Russia * Pre-Revolutionary Shelters and the Concept of the Child * The Soviet Period: Family Discontinuity and Children-out-of-Family Chapter 2. The State as a Co-Parent * Fieldsite: Magadan * The Child Welfare Network * Residential Care Institutions and their Functions * Categories of the Family * The Benevolent State and 'Good' Parents: Voluntary Placements and Cooperation Chapter 3. State and Family: Tilting the Balance of Power * Neblagopoluchnye Parents: Tension between the State and the Family * 'Inadequate Fulfilment of Parental Duties' * Working with the Neblagopoluchnaya Family Chapter 4. Parents Overwhelmed by the State * 'Child Appropriation': The Case Study of Maria * Court Hearings * Deprivation of Voice and Disempowerment of the Parent Chapter 5. Norms and Deviance * The 'Best Interests of the Child': Moral Judgement of the Parent * The Child's Biological Family: The Severance of Ties and 'Symbolic Death' of Parents * The Construction of Family by the State: A Society of Virtual Kin PART II. BEING A SOCIAL ORPHAN Chapter 6. The State as a Sole Parent * The Rake's Progress: The Child's Journey through Residential Homes * The Cosmology of Institutions Chapter 7. The World of Social Orphans * Experiencing Institutions: Narratives of Former Inmates * Misha's Signposts of Institutional Life * Unpacking Parent-Child Obligations: Dispersed Responsibility and Accountability * Two Worlds: Orphans and the Wider Society PART III: POST-SOVIET OR SOVIET? SELF-PERPETUATION OF THE SYSTEM Chapter 8. The Continuing Soviet Legacy: Paradoxes of Change and Continuity * Childhood and Family Today: The Shifting Domains of Public and Private Continuity of Practices and Attitudes * 'Moral Panic': Current Descendants of Witchcraft * Accusations and Show Trials * Self-Perpetuation of the System * Alternative Approaches Chapter 9. The Post-Soviet Case in a Wider Context Conclusion * Modes of relatedness * Power Asymmetry Appendix I: List of Documents Supplied to the Court by the Guardianship Department and the Baby Home in Maria's Case Appendix II: Reminiscences of Two 'Bad' Childhoods References Glossary Index
List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgements Notes on Transliteration List of Acronyms and Abbreviations Introduction * The Scope of the Problem What is this Study About? * Time Line: Soviet and Post-Soviet Notes on Methodology * Theoretical and Conceptual Framework PART I: BECOMING A SOCIAL ORPHAN Chapter 1. A Brief History of Family Policy in Russia * Pre-Revolutionary Shelters and the Concept of the Child * The Soviet Period: Family Discontinuity and Children-out-of-Family Chapter 2. The State as a Co-Parent * Fieldsite: Magadan * The Child Welfare Network * Residential Care Institutions and their Functions * Categories of the Family * The Benevolent State and 'Good' Parents: Voluntary Placements and Cooperation Chapter 3. State and Family: Tilting the Balance of Power * Neblagopoluchnye Parents: Tension between the State and the Family * 'Inadequate Fulfilment of Parental Duties' * Working with the Neblagopoluchnaya Family Chapter 4. Parents Overwhelmed by the State * 'Child Appropriation': The Case Study of Maria * Court Hearings * Deprivation of Voice and Disempowerment of the Parent Chapter 5. Norms and Deviance * The 'Best Interests of the Child': Moral Judgement of the Parent * The Child's Biological Family: The Severance of Ties and 'Symbolic Death' of Parents * The Construction of Family by the State: A Society of Virtual Kin PART II. BEING A SOCIAL ORPHAN Chapter 6. The State as a Sole Parent * The Rake's Progress: The Child's Journey through Residential Homes * The Cosmology of Institutions Chapter 7. The World of Social Orphans * Experiencing Institutions: Narratives of Former Inmates * Misha's Signposts of Institutional Life * Unpacking Parent-Child Obligations: Dispersed Responsibility and Accountability * Two Worlds: Orphans and the Wider Society PART III: POST-SOVIET OR SOVIET? SELF-PERPETUATION OF THE SYSTEM Chapter 8. The Continuing Soviet Legacy: Paradoxes of Change and Continuity * Childhood and Family Today: The Shifting Domains of Public and Private Continuity of Practices and Attitudes * 'Moral Panic': Current Descendants of Witchcraft * Accusations and Show Trials * Self-Perpetuation of the System * Alternative Approaches Chapter 9. The Post-Soviet Case in a Wider Context Conclusion * Modes of relatedness * Power Asymmetry Appendix I: List of Documents Supplied to the Court by the Guardianship Department and the Baby Home in Maria's Case Appendix II: Reminiscences of Two 'Bad' Childhoods References Glossary Index
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