Urban hunters : dealing and dreaming in times of transition / Lars Højer and Morten Axel Pedersen.

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]

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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 Hojer and Morten Axel Pedersen present a new theorization of social agency in postsocialist as well as postcolonial contexts.

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Print version: HOJER, LARS. PEDERSEN, MORTEN AXEL. URBAN HUNTERS. [Place of publication not identified] : YALE UNIV PRESS, 2019

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