{"product_id":"lost-to-the-state-family-discontinuity-social-orphanhood-and-residential-care-in-the-russian-far-east-9781845457389","title":"Lost to the State: Family Discontinuity, Social","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tChildhood held a special place in Soviet society: seen as the key to a better future, children were imagined as the only privileged class. Therefore, the rapid emergence in post-Soviet Russia of the vast numbers of vulnerable ‘social orphans’, or children who have living relatives but grow up in residential care institutions, caught the public by surprise, leading to discussions of the role and place of childhood in the new society. Based on an in-depth study the author explores dissonance between new post-Soviet forms of family and economy, and lingering Soviet attitudes, revealing social orphans as an embodiment of a long-standing power struggle between the state and the family. The author uncovers parallels between (post-) Soviet and Western practices in child welfare and attitudes towards ‘bad’ mothers, and proposes a new way of interpreting kinship where the state is an integral member.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t“\u003cem\u003eReflecting long-standing anthropological and sociological interests in bureaucracy and institutions, as well as in kinship and the family, this book provides a wealth of ethnographic data about vulnerable children in the new Russia, their relationships to their parents, the state, and each other….It is difficult to do justice to this complex book in a short space. As a study of children in institutions, it is revealing and, thanks to the outstanding writing, often very moving…This is a profound study of kinship and its consequences which deserves a very wide readership.\u003c\/em\u003e”\u003cb\u003e  ·  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJRAI\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e“\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis study is extremely well done; a fluently written, scholarly account and analysis that provides a necessary addition to the “post-Soviet” literature, which has few such sharp analyses of the family, not least because the author takes on relevant debates and histories that both add considerable depth to this discussion and widen the applicability of the primary focus. Thus, we are given a marvellously careful and detailed insight into the workings of a provincial bureaucracy still shaped by the mores and customs of a Soviet bureaucracy but now faced with the sharply different context of the post-Soviet world.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003ci\u003e”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e  ·  Catherine Alexander,\u003c\/b\u003e Goldsmiths College, London\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Figures and Tables\u003cbr\u003e \tAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e \tNotes on Transliteration\u003cbr\u003e \tList of Acronyms and Abbreviations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Scope of the Problem What is this Study About?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tTime Line: Soviet and Post-Soviet Notes on Methodology\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tTheoretical and Conceptual Framework\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART I: BECOMING A SOCIAL ORPHAN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 1. A Brief History of Family Policy in Russia\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tPre-Revolutionary Shelters and the Concept of the Child\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Soviet Period: Family Discontinuity and Children-out-of-Family\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 2. The State as a Co-Parent\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tFieldsite: Magadan\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Child Welfare Network\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tResidential Care Institutions and their Functions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tCategories of the Family\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Benevolent State and ‘Good’ Parents: Voluntary Placements and Cooperation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 3. State and Family: Tilting the Balance of Power\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tNeblagopoluchnye Parents: Tension between the State and the Family\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\t‘Inadequate Fulfilment of Parental Duties’\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tWorking with the Neblagopoluchnaya Family\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 4. Parents Overwhelmed by the State\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\t‘Child Appropriation’: The Case Study of Maria\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tCourt Hearings\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tDeprivation of Voice and Disempowerment of the Parent\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 5. Norms and Deviance\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe ‘Best Interests of the Child’: Moral Judgement of the Parent\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Child’s Biological Family: The Severance of Ties and ‘Symbolic Death’ of Parents\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Construction of Family by the State: A Society of Virtual Kin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART II. BEING A SOCIAL ORPHAN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 6. The State as a Sole Parent\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Rake’s Progress: The Child’s Journey through Residential Homes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Cosmology of Institutions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 7. The World of Social Orphans\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tExperiencing Institutions: Narratives of Former Inmates\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tMisha’s Signposts of Institutional Life\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tUnpacking Parent-Child Obligations: Dispersed Responsibility and Accountability\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tTwo Worlds: Orphans and the Wider Society\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART III: POST-SOVIET OR SOVIET? SELF-PERPETUATION OF THE SYSTEM\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 8. The Continuing Soviet Legacy: Paradoxes of Change and Continuity\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tChildhood and Family Today: The Shifting Domains of Public and Private Continuity of Practices and Attitudes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\t‘Moral Panic’: Current Descendants of Witchcraft\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tAccusations and Show Trials\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tSelf-Perpetuation of the System\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tAlternative Approaches\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 9. The Post-Soviet Case in a Wider Context\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eConclusion\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tModes of relatedness\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tPower Asymmetry\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eAppendix I:\u003c\/b\u003e List of Documents Supplied to the Court by the Guardianship Department and the Baby Home in Maria’s Case\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eAppendix II:\u003c\/b\u003e Reminiscences of Two ‘Bad’ Childhoods\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tReferences\u003cbr\u003e \tGlossary\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042985967959,"sku":"9781845457389","price":96.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781845457389.jpg?v=1750956531","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/lost-to-the-state-family-discontinuity-social-orphanhood-and-residential-care-in-the-russian-far-east-9781845457389","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}