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Kasten,
Erich (ed.) People and the Land Pathways to Reform in Post-Soviet Siberia Siberian Studies 2002, Dietrich Reimer Verlag Berlin 257 pp., 2 maps, 13,5 x 20,5 cm Euro 29,- (D) / sFr 49,- paper, ISBN 3-496-02743-6 |
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 1 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 7 PDF
David Koester
When the Fat Raven sings: Mimesis and environmental
alterity in
Kamchatka's environmentalist age 45 PDF
Alexander D. King
Reindeer herders' culturescapes in the Koryak
Autonomous Okrug
63 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 83 PDF
David G. Anderson
Entitlements, identity and time: Addressing
aboriginal rights and
nature protection in Siberia's new resource colonies
99 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
125 PDF
Emma Wilson
Est' zakon, est' i svoi zakony: Legal and moral
entitlements to the
fish resources of Nyski Bay, north-eastern Sakhalin
149 PDF
Market Reforms and non-Market Strategies
Yulian Konstantinov
Soviet and post-Soviet reindeer-herding collectives:
Transitional
slogans in Murmansk region 171 PDF
Tuula Tuisku
Transition period in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug:
Changing and
unchanging life of Nenets people 189 PDF
John P. Ziker
Land use and economic change among the Dolgan and
Nganasan
207 PDF
Nelson Hancock
Is trade traditional? Theorizing economic histories
and futures in the
New Kamchatka 225 PDF
Tim Ingold
Epilogue 245 PDF
Notes on the Contributors 255