This paper finds qualified support for the use of Skarbek's (2011, 2014) governance theory
to understand the emergence of prison gang-like groups in Kyrgyzstan, Northern Ireland and …

This book gives a radically new reading of Russia's cultural history. Alexander Etkind traces
how the Russian Empire conquered foreign territories and domesticated its own heartlands …

The Soviet Union created a unique form of urban modernity, developing institutions of social
provisioning for hundreds of millions of people in small and medium-sized industrial cities …

The detective story, focused on inquiries, and in its wake the spy novel, built around
conspiracies, developed as genres in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries …

What happens when journalism is made superfluous? Combining ethnography, media
analysis, moral and political theory this book examines the unravelling of professional …

On April 26, 1986, Unit Four of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in then Soviet
Ukraine. More than 3.5 million people in Ukraine alone, not to mention many citizens of …

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In Making Sense of War, Amir Weiner reconceptualizes the entire historical experience of
the Soviet Union from a new perspective, that of World War II. Breaking with the conventional …

This book explores the everyday lives of'lesbian'women in urban Russia. It explores
changes and continuities by examining generational differences, and attends to regional …

" Zigon's ethnography provides a fascinating window onto the concrete processes through
which people undergoing rehabilitation for drug addiction are remade as moral persons …