Note on transliteration		ix
	Note on translations	x
Notes on Contributors		xi

Preface		xv

1.	Introduction: Studying Lifestyle in Russia	1
	Joachim Otto Habeck
	Outline of the book	2
	The concept of lifestyle in sociological and anthropological literature	5
	Towards research on lifestyle in Siberia: some remarks on the regional context	17
	The concept of lifestyle in Russian social science literature	21
	First insights obtained in the course of the research project	27
	References	29

2.	Implications of Infrastructure and Technological Change for Lifestyles in Siberia	35
	Dennis Zuev and Joachim Otto Habeck
	Major infrastructural and related social changes during the last three decades	36
	Entering the post-Soviet 1990s: personal experiences	38
	Movement, telecommunication, and lifestyle in peripheral settings	42
	Overview of field sites	48
	Means of transportation	58
	Telecommunication, media, social networks, and photography	80
	Conclusion	92
	References	95

3.	Lifestyle and Creative Engagement with Rural Space in Northwest Russia	105
	Masha Shaw (née Maria Nakhshina)
	Kitchen table talk as a research tool	109
	(Dis-)empowered by the state: lifestyles of (im)mobility	111
	Life histories over “liquidation” of time	116
	Conclusion: lifestyle as a creative engagement with place	125
	References	127

4.	Holiday Convergences, Holiday Divergences: Siberian Leisure Mobilities Under Late Socialism and After	131
	Luděk Brož and Joachim Otto Habeck
	Tourism and holiday-making during late socialism	133
	Precursors and “noble causes” of socialist holiday worlds	140
	Divergent travel biographies in the first post-Soviet decade	146
	Growth of the Siberian tourist industry in the 2000s	150
	New directions and motivations: post-socialist holiday worlds	154
	Final thoughts on the future of tourism to, from, and within Siberia	160
	References	162

5.	Spatial Imaginaries and Personal Topographies in Siberian Life Stories: Analysing Movement and Place in Biographical Narratives	167
	Joseph J. Long
	Mobility, geography, and topography	168
	Narratives, images, and the spatial imaginary	170
	Changing spatial imaginaries and possibilities for travel	172
	Institutionalised rites of passage in travel biographies	175
	Narratives of discovery	178
	Movement that anchors: roots and rodina in personal topographies	179
	Visualising social encounters	181
	Movement as lifestyle	184
	Conclusion	187
	References	189

6.	Something like Happiness: Home Photography in the Inquiry of Lifestyles	191
	Jaroslava Panáková
	On the notion of happiness	192
	Photo elicitation interviews	196
	Modernity the Siberian way	206
	Home photography in Siberia	208
	Biographical narratives: consistencies and ruptures	213
	“Collective and individual”	215
	“Reading” the narratives along the photographs	218
	“Significant other”	234
	Portraits of self	236
	Conclusion	244
	References	249

7.	Soviet Kul’tura in Post-Soviet Identification: The Aesthetics of Ethnicity in Sakha (Yakutia)	257
	Eleanor Peers
	Lifestyle, Aesthetics, and Identity Politics in Sakha (Yakutia)	259
	Soviet policy, kul’tura, and lifestyle	275
	Kul’tura and the emergence of ethnicity	284
	Conclusion: Soviet aesthetics and the Yhyakh	288
	References	290

8.	Ethnicity on the Move: National-Cultural Organisations in Siberia	295
	Artem Rabogoshvili
	Ethnic diversity in the Baikal region	296
	Ethnic activism and lifestyle: paradigms of research	298
	Divides and disparities among ethnic activists in Siberia	301
	Original home and mobility	305
	New home and visual self-presentation	314
	Conclusion	325
	References	328

9.	“We are not Playing Life, We Live Here”: Playful Appropriation of Ancestral Memory in a Youth Camp in Western Siberia	331
	Ina Schröder
	Shared sensibilities: taking charge of local youth	333
	Summer camp as a lifestyle	336
	Play and self-cultivation	339
	Indigenisation of Zarnitsa: retrieving one’s ancestral memory	342
	Gender norms, roles, and experiences in the role-playing game	348
	Conclusion	360
	References	362

10.	A Taste for Play: Lifestyle and Live-Action Role-Playing in Siberia and the Russian Far East	365
	Tatiana Barchunova and Joachim Otto Habeck
	Live-action role-playing (LARP) in Siberia today	366
	The concept of lifestyle and its relevance to taste, play, and game	368
	LARP as practice: separation and mixture of game and reality	371
	LARP and lifestyle: casual, regular, and total larpers	384
	Conclusion	393
	References	396

11.	Conclusions	399
	Joachim Otto Habeck
	Beyond 2011: an update on social and cultural shifts in Russia	400
	Lifestyle, habits of travelling, and visual forms of self-presentation	412
	Reassessing the concept of lifestyle	423
	Lifestyle and modernity in post-Soviet Russia	425
	References	430

Appendix: On Research Design and Methods		435
	Joachim Otto Habeck and Jaroslava Panáková
	References	448

List of Illustrations		451
Index		457

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