Rethinking Class in Russia

Herausgeber: Salmenniemi, Suvi

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Social differentiation, poverty and the emergence of the newly rich occasioned by the collapse of the Soviet Union have seldom been analysed from a class perspective. Rethinking Class in Russia addresses this absence by exploring the manner in which class positions are constructed and negotiated in the new Russia. Bringing an ethnographic and cultural studies approach to the topic, this book demonstrates that class is a central axis along which power and inequality are organized in Russia, revealing how symbolic, cultural and emotional dimensions are deeply intertwined with economic and material inequalities. Thematically arranged and presenting the latest empirical research, this interdisciplinary volume brings together work from both Western and Russian scholars on a range of spheres and practices, including popular culture, politics, social policy, consumption, education, work, family and everyday life. By engaging with discussions in new class analysis and by highlighting how the logic of global neoliberal capitalism is appropriated and negotiated vis-Ã -vis the Soviet hierarchies of value and worth, this book offers a multifaceted and carefully contextualized picture of class relations and identities in contemporary Russia and makes a contribution to the theorisation of class and inequality in a post-Cold War era. As such it will appeal to those with interests in sociology, anthropology, geography, political science, gender studies, Russian and Eastern European studies, and media and cultural studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 442g
• ISBN-13: 9781138277137
• ISBN-10: 1138277134
• Artikelnr.: 57052120

Autorenporträt

Suvi Salmenniemi is a postdoctoral fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland, and author of Democratization and Gender in Contemporary Russia

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Rethinking Class in Russia
Suvi Salmenniemi; Chapter 1 Class Analysis in the USSR and Contemporary Russia
Harri Melin
Suvi Salmenniemi; Part I Class in Public Discourses; Chapter 2 Business for Pleasure: Elite Women in the Russian Popular Media
Saara Ratilainen; Chapter 3 Post-Soviet Khoziain: Class
Self and Morality in Russian Self-help Literature
Suvi Salmenniemi; Chapter 4 Doing Class in Social Welfare Discourses: 'Unfortunate Families' in Russia
Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova
Pavel Romanov; Chapter 5 Political Part ies and the Construction of Social Class in Russia
Sirke Mäkinen; Part II Classed Practices; Chapter 6 Making and Managing Class: Employment of Paid Domestic Workers in Russia
Anna Rotkirch
Olga Tkach
Elena Zdravomyslova; Chapter 7 'We are Not Rich Enough to Buy Cheap Things': Clothing Consumption of the St. Petersburg Middle Class
Olga Gurova; Chapter 8 Women's Use of Legal Advice and Claims in Contemporary Russia: The Impact of Gender and Class
Vikki Turbine; Part III Living Class; Chapter 9 Wealth Brings Health? Class
Body and Health in Russia
Marja Rytkönen
Ilkka Pietilä; Chapter 10 Class Differences and Social Mobility amongst College-educated Young People in Russia
Elena Trubina; Chapter 11 Re-inventing Themselves? Gender
Employment and Subjective Well-being amongst Young Working-class Russians
Charles Walker; Chapter 12 The Excluded Class: Russia's Forgotten Middle-aged Men
John Round; Chapter 13 Afterword: Thinking and Rethinking Class
Steph Lawler;