Rethinking Class in Russia

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-27713-7 (ISBN)

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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.

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

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;

Erscheinungsdatum	15.02.2017
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-138-27713-4 / 1138277134
ISBN-13	978-1-138-27713-7 / 9781138277137
Zustand	Neuware