Sökning: "Soviet ethnography"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 8 avhandlingar innehållade orden Soviet ethnography.

  1. 1. The Promises of the Free World : Postsocialist Experience in Argentina and the Making of Migrants, Race, and Coloniality

    Författare :Jenny Ingridsdotter; Mats Lindqvist; Jenny Gunnarsson Payne; Catrin Lundström; Södertörns högskola; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; political discourse theory; ethnography; Argentina; race; whiteness; coloniality; postsocialism; social inequality; subject positions; migration; gender; class; intersectionality; ethnography; post structuralism; Latin America; Soviet Union; identities; differentiation; ethnology; economic crisis; mobility; auto-ethnography; colonial settlement; diaspora; humanities; Ukraine; Russia; Historical Studies; Historiska studier; Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning; Baltic and East European studies; Ethnology;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates the narrated experiences of a number of individuals that migrated to Argentina from Russia and Ukraine in the wake of the fall of the Soviet Union. The over-arching aim of this thesis is to study the ways in which these migrants navigated the social reality in Argentina, with regards to available physical, material, and socioeconomic positions as well as with regards to their narrated self-understandings and identifications. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Living Law and Political Stability in Post-Soviet Central Asia : A Case Study of the Ferghana Valley in Uzbekistan

    Författare :Rustamjon Urinboyev; Rättssociologiska institutionen; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; political stability; welfare; living law; social norms; sociology of law; law and society; mahalla; Uzbekistan; Central Asia; Ferghana Valley; post-Soviet societies; ethnography; socio-legal studies; corruption; informal economy; public administration; informal institutions; legitimacy; state-society relations.;

    Sammanfattning : Central Asian countries are facing multidimensional political stability and security challenges in the post-Soviet period. Current scholarly discussions of political stability in post-Soviet Central Asia continue to revolve around the issues of Islamic upheaval, ethnic conflicts, civil war or inter-clan struggles, and how the authoritarian regimes in this region deploy coercive strategies and penal sanctions to cope with political instability. LÄS MER

  4. 3. "Vildrenen är själv detsamma som en gud" : "gudar" och "andar" i sovjetiska etnografers beskrivningar av samojediska världsåskådningar

    Författare :Olle Sundström; Håkan Rydving; Hanna Zipernovszky; Anna-Leena Siikala; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Soviet ethnography; Marxism-Leninism and religion; scientific terminology; indigenous religions; Samoyedic peoples; Nganasan; History of religion; Religionshistoria;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis examines strategies and practices, in Soviet ethnographic research, concerning terminologies for and classifications of what in research texts are conventionally called “supernatural beings” in the world views of the Samoyedic peoples. The question is put whether there are any general rules for the terminology used by scholars for these kinds of beings. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Searching for Authentic Living Through Native Faith : The Maausk Movement in Estonia

    Författare :Jenni Rinne; Maria Zackariasson; David Thurfjell; Laura Stark; Södertörns högskola; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; native faith; neo-paganism; affect; affective pattern; emotions; place; tradition; authenticity; neoliberalism; globalisation; identity; Estonia; lived religion; post-soviet; Historical Studies; Historiska studier; Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning; Baltic and East European studies;

    Sammanfattning : The broad aim of this thesis is twofold: firstly, I contextualise the Maausk movement and its practitioners’ understandings in relation to history and the surrounding society; secondly, I analyse the affective and embodied experiences of being a Maausk practitioner from a phenomenological perspective.The thesis focuses on the formation and practice of Maausk, which is perceived to be deeply tied to the society and history where it exists. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Gelebte Mehrsprachigkeit im Plattenbau : Untersuchungen von Narrativen und Praktiken russlanddeutscher junger Erwachsener

    Författare :Constanze Ackermann-Boström; Dessislava Stoeva-Holm; Susanne Tienken; Leena Huss; Konstanze Marx; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Russian-Germans; community of practice; identity; migration; small stories; multilingualism; linguistic ethnography; narrative; space; positioning; heritage language; proper names; categorization; East Germany; Plattenbau; Russlanddeutsche; Identität; Migration; Mehrsprachigkeit; Linguistische Ethnographie; Raum; Narrative; Positionierung; Herkunftssprache; Eigennamen; Kategorisierung; Ostdeutschland; Plattenbau; German; Tyska;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis focuses on the lived multilingualism of a group of young Russian-German adults who as children migrated together with their families from post-Soviet states to the Federal Republic of Germany during the 1990s. Today these adults live in a ‘Plattenbau’ housing estate in a small town in one of the new federal states of Germany. LÄS MER