People and the Land. Pathways to Reform in Post-Soviet Siberia

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Written by Erich Kasten on Thursday May 30, 2019

While much has been written on post-Soviet change in Russian urban centres, we still know very little about how these changes have affected peoples' lives in rural communities. This is nowhere more true than in the vast regions of Siberia and the North. This volume fills this gap with in-depth studies of how people with different cultural backgrounds, often living in extreme natural environments, are coping with dramatic and rapid political and economic transformations. It shows how the fate of postsocialist reforms in the Russian North depends largely on striking the right balance between exploitation of the region's strategic natural resources and concern for environmental impacts and the survival of local people. The authors, among them many of the leading scholars of the Russian North, place their accounts within the context of wider, comparative enquiries into the nature of postsocialist societies.

Erich Kasten
Introduction    PDF

WAYS OF KNOWING AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S LINKING TO THE LAND 

Igor Krupnik and Nikolai Vakhtin
In the 'House of Dismay': Knowledge, culture, and post-Soviet politics in Chukotka, 1995­-1996    PDF

David Koester
When the Fat Raven sings: Mimesis and environmental alterity in Kamchatka's environmentalist age    PDF

Alexander D. King
Reindeer herders' culturescapes in the Koryak Autonomous Okrug    PDF

PROPERTY RELATIONS AND POWER DYNAMICS OF RESOURCE USE 

Natalia Novikova
Self-government of the indigenous minority peoples of West Siberia: Analysis of law and practice    PDF

David G. Anderson
Entitlements, identity and time: Addressing aboriginal rights and nature protection in Siberia's new resource colonies    PDF

Joachim Otto Habeck
How to turn a reindeer pasture into an oil well, and vice versa: Transfer of land, compensation and reclamation in the Komi Republic    PDF

Emma Wilson
Est' zakon, est' i svoi zakony: Legal and moral entitlements to the fish resources of Nyski Bay, north-eastern Sakhalin    PDF

MARKET REFORMS AND NON-MARKET STRATEGIES 

Yulian Konstantinov
Soviet and post-Soviet reindeer-herding collectives: Transitional slogans in Murmansk region   PDF

Tuula Tuisku
Transition period in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug: Changing and unchanging life of Nenets people    PDF

John P. Ziker
Land use and economic change among the Dolgan and Nganasan    PDF

Nelson Hancock
Is trade traditional? Theorizing economic histories and futures in the New Kamchatka   PDF

Tim Ingold
Epilogue    PDF

Erich Kasten (ed.). People and the Land. Pathways to Reform in Post-Soviet Siberia.
2002, Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag 
257 pp., 2 maps, 13,5 x 20,5 cm
ISBN 3-496-02743-6
Euro 29, paperback

People and the Land. Pathways to Reform in Post-Soviet Siberia

While much has been written on post-Soviet change in Russian urban centres, we still know very little about how these changes have affected peoples' lives in rural communities. This is nowhere more true than in the vast regions of Siberia and the North. This volume fills this gap with in-depth studies of how people with different cultural backgrounds, often living in extreme natural environments, are coping with dramatic and rapid political and economic transformations. It shows how the fate of postsocialist reforms in the Russian North depends largely on striking the right balance between exploitation of the region's strategic natural resources and concern for environmental impacts and the survival of local people. The authors, among them many of the leading scholars of the Russian North, place their accounts within the context of wider, comparative enquiries into the nature of postsocialist societies.

Erich Kasten
Introduction    PDF

WAYS OF KNOWING AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S LINKING TO THE LAND 

Igor Krupnik and Nikolai Vakhtin
In the 'House of Dismay': Knowledge, culture, and post-Soviet politics in Chukotka, 1995­-1996    PDF

David Koester
When the Fat Raven sings: Mimesis and environmental alterity in Kamchatka's environmentalist age    PDF

Alexander D. King
Reindeer herders' culturescapes in the Koryak Autonomous Okrug    PDF

PROPERTY RELATIONS AND POWER DYNAMICS OF RESOURCE USE 

Natalia Novikova
Self-government of the indigenous minority peoples of West Siberia: Analysis of law and practice    PDF

David G. Anderson
Entitlements, identity and time: Addressing aboriginal rights and nature protection in Siberia's new resource colonies    PDF

Joachim Otto Habeck
How to turn a reindeer pasture into an oil well, and vice versa: Transfer of land, compensation and reclamation in the Komi Republic    PDF

Emma Wilson
Est' zakon, est' i svoi zakony: Legal and moral entitlements to the fish resources of Nyski Bay, north-eastern Sakhalin    PDF

MARKET REFORMS AND NON-MARKET STRATEGIES 

Yulian Konstantinov
Soviet and post-Soviet reindeer-herding collectives: Transitional slogans in Murmansk region   PDF

Tuula Tuisku
Transition period in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug: Changing and unchanging life of Nenets people    PDF

John P. Ziker
Land use and economic change among the Dolgan and Nganasan    PDF

Nelson Hancock
Is trade traditional? Theorizing economic histories and futures in the New Kamchatka   PDF

Tim Ingold
Epilogue    PDF

Erich Kasten (ed.). People and the Land. Pathways to Reform in Post-Soviet Siberia.
2002, Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag 
257 pp., 2 maps, 13,5 x 20,5 cm
ISBN 3-496-02743-6
Euro 29, paperback

Erich Kasten (ed.)

Erich Kasten (ed.)

Erscheinungsjahr: 2002

Pathways to Reform in Post-Soviet Siberia

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People and the Land. Pathways to Reform in Post-Soviet Siberia

Erich Kasten (ed.)

While much has been written on post-Soviet change in Russian urban centres, we still know very little about how these changes have affected peoples' lives in rural communities. This is nowhere more true than in the vast regions of Siberia and the North. This volume fills this gap with in-depth studies of how people with different cultural backgrounds, often living in extreme natural environments, are coping with dramatic and rapid political and economic transformations. It shows how the fate of postsocialist reforms in the Russian North depends largely on striking the right balance between exploitation of the region's strategic natural resources and concern for environmental impacts and the survival of local people. The authors, among them many of the leading scholars of the Russian North, place their accounts within the context of wider, comparative enquiries into the nature of postsocialist societies.

Erich Kasten
Introduction    PDF

WAYS OF KNOWING AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S LINKING TO THE LAND 

Igor Krupnik and Nikolai Vakhtin
In the 'House of Dismay': Knowledge, culture, and post-Soviet politics in Chukotka, 1995­-1996    PDF

David Koester
When the Fat Raven sings: Mimesis and environmental alterity in Kamchatka's environmentalist age    PDF

Alexander D. King
Reindeer herders' culturescapes in the Koryak Autonomous Okrug    PDF

PROPERTY RELATIONS AND POWER DYNAMICS OF RESOURCE USE 

Natalia Novikova
Self-government of the indigenous minority peoples of West Siberia: Analysis of law and practice    PDF

David G. Anderson
Entitlements, identity and time: Addressing aboriginal rights and nature protection in Siberia's new resource colonies    PDF

Joachim Otto Habeck
How to turn a reindeer pasture into an oil well, and vice versa: Transfer of land, compensation and reclamation in the Komi Republic    PDF

Emma Wilson
Est' zakon, est' i svoi zakony: Legal and moral entitlements to the fish resources of Nyski Bay, north-eastern Sakhalin    PDF

MARKET REFORMS AND NON-MARKET STRATEGIES 

Yulian Konstantinov
Soviet and post-Soviet reindeer-herding collectives: Transitional slogans in Murmansk region   PDF

Tuula Tuisku
Transition period in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug: Changing and unchanging life of Nenets people    PDF

John P. Ziker
Land use and economic change among the Dolgan and Nganasan    PDF

Nelson Hancock
Is trade traditional? Theorizing economic histories and futures in the New Kamchatka   PDF

Tim Ingold
Epilogue    PDF

Kasten, Erich

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