Lifestyle in Siberia and the Russian NorthMore info and resources at: https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0171
Note on transliteration
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Note on translations
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Notes on Contributors
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Preface
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Introduction: Studying Lifestyle in Russia
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Joachim Otto Habeck
Outline of the book
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The concept of lifestyle in sociological and anthropological literature
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Towards research on lifestyle in Siberia: some remarks on the regional context
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The concept of lifestyle in Russian social science literature
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First insights obtained in the course of the research project
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References
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Implications of Infrastructure and Technological Change for Lifestyles in Siberia
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Dennis Zuev and Joachim Otto Habeck
Major infrastructural and related social changes during the last three decades
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Entering the post-Soviet 1990s: personal experiences
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Movement, telecommunication, and lifestyle in peripheral settings
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Overview of field sites
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Means of transportation
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Telecommunication, media, social networks, and photography
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Conclusion
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Lifestyle and Creative Engagement with Rural Space in Northwest Russia
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Masha Shaw (née Maria Nakhshina)
Kitchen table talk as a research tool
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(Dis-)empowered by the state: lifestyles of (im)mobility
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Life histories over “liquidation” of time
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Conclusion: lifestyle as a creative engagement with place
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Holiday Convergences, Holiday Divergences: Siberian Leisure Mobilities Under Late Socialism and After
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Luděk Brož and Joachim Otto Habeck
Tourism and holiday-making during late socialism
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Precursors and “noble causes” of socialist holiday worlds
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Divergent travel biographies in the first post-Soviet decade
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Growth of the Siberian tourist industry in the 2000s
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New directions and motivations: post-socialist holiday worlds
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Final thoughts on the future of tourism to, from, and within Siberia
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Spatial Imaginaries and Personal Topographies in Siberian Life Stories: Analysing Movement and Place in Biographical Narratives
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Joseph J. Long
Mobility, geography, and topography
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Narratives, images, and the spatial imaginary
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Changing spatial imaginaries and possibilities for travel
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Institutionalised rites of passage in travel biographies
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Narratives of discovery
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Movement that anchors: roots and rodina in personal topographies
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Visualising social encounters
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Movement as lifestyle
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Something like Happiness: Home Photography in the Inquiry of Lifestyles
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Jaroslava Panáková
On the notion of happiness
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Photo elicitation interviews
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Modernity the Siberian way
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Home photography in Siberia
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Biographical narratives: consistencies and ruptures
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“Collective and individual”
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“Reading” the narratives along the photographs
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“Significant other”
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Portraits of self
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Soviet Kul’tura in Post-Soviet Identification: The Aesthetics of Ethnicity in Sakha (Yakutia)
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Eleanor Peers
Lifestyle, Aesthetics, and Identity Politics in Sakha (Yakutia)
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Soviet policy, kul’tura, and lifestyle
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Kul’tura and the emergence of ethnicity
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Conclusion: Soviet aesthetics and the Yhyakh
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Ethnicity on the Move: National-Cultural Organisations in Siberia
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Artem Rabogoshvili
Ethnic diversity in the Baikal region
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Ethnic activism and lifestyle: paradigms of research
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Divides and disparities among ethnic activists in Siberia
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Original home and mobility
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New home and visual self-presentation
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“We are not Playing Life, We Live Here”: Playful Appropriation of Ancestral Memory in a Youth Camp in Western Siberia
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Ina Schröder
Shared sensibilities: taking charge of local youth
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Summer camp as a lifestyle
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Play and self-cultivation
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Indigenisation of Zarnitsa: retrieving one’s ancestral memory
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Gender norms, roles, and experiences in the role-playing game
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A Taste for Play: Lifestyle and Live-Action Role-Playing in Siberia and the Russian Far East
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Tatiana Barchunova and Joachim Otto Habeck
Live-action role-playing (LARP) in Siberia today
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The concept of lifestyle and its relevance to taste, play, and game
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LARP as practice: separation and mixture of game and reality
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LARP and lifestyle: casual, regular, and total larpers
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Conclusions
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Beyond 2011: an update on social and cultural shifts in Russia
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Lifestyle, habits of travelling, and visual forms of self-presentation
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Reassessing the concept of lifestyle
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Lifestyle and modernity in post-Soviet Russia
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Appendix: On Research Design and Methods
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Joachim Otto Habeck and Jaroslava Panáková
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List of Illustrations
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Index
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