Urban Hunters: Dealing and Dreaming in Times of Transition (Eurasia Past and Present) (Eurasia Past and Present (YUP))

by Lars Hojer and Morten Axel Pedersen

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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 Højer and Morten Axel Pedersen present a new theorization of social agency in postsocialist as well as postcolonial contexts.
  • ISBN10 0300196113
  • ISBN13 9780300196115
  • Publish Date 14 January 2020
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Yale University Press