{"product_id":"consumption-and-social-change-in-a-postsoviet-middle-class-9780804700696","title":"Consumption and Social Change in a PostSoviet","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis ethnographic examination of a middle-class group that must re-position itself—schoolteachers in 1990s Russia—depicts the interplay between identity, morality and consumption.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The book makes an important contribution to the emerging analyses of middle-class culture in Russia, and highlights issues such as the shame associated with poverty that have been under-examined in previous works.\" -- Michele Rivkin-Fish, University of North Carolina * Chapel Hill *\u003cbr\u003e\"Patico has produced a richly textured analysis that rings true for a wider swath of society than that simply comprising her teachers.\" -- \u003ci\u003eForeign Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This ethnographic study of Moscow public schoolteachers ... is a fascinating exploration of the teachers' perceptions of their place in the emerging market economy and resentment of the ostentatious, 'uncultured' post-Soviet nouveau riche. Well written and accessible, this book will be useful for anthropologists, economists, cultural historians, and scholars as well as student in Russian and postcolonial studies.\" -- A.H. Koblitz * \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"[F]resh and fascinating . . . Although many studies have shown that middle-class culture cannot be fully understood without examining consumption and consumerism, Patico's book is one of the few that makes a serious effort to theorize this linkage . . . [T]his is an ethnographically grounded and theoretically informed book that deepens our understanding of postsocialist transformations through the lens of a Russian middle-class culture. I would recommend it highly.\" -- Li Zhang * \u003ci\u003eDialectical Anthropology\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"By unpacking consumption as a simultaneously pragmatic and emotional activity, Patico intervenes in current debates about how new post-Soviet persons are constituted, how consumers exercise choice and evaluate those choices, and the new meanings that commodities and practices of consumption acquire in rapidly changing societies. Ultimately, she offers a fascinating and timely glimpse into a Russia that is undergoing profound changes.\" -- Melissa L. Caldwell, University of California * Santa Cruz *","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48884658798935,"sku":"9780804700696","price":81.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804700696.jpg?v=1722532900","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/consumption-and-social-change-in-a-postsoviet-middle-class-9780804700696","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}