Settlers on the edge : identity and modernization on Russia's arctic frontier /

Settlers on the edge : identity and modernization on Russia's arctic frontier /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Thompson, Niobe, 1973-
Imprint:	Vancouver : UBC Press, c2008.
Description:	xiv, 289 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Migrant labor -- Russia (Federation) -- Chukchi Peninsula -- History. Migration, Internal -- Russia (Federation) -- History -- 20th century. Acculturation -- Russia (Federation) -- Chukchi Peninsula. Ethnology -- Russia (Federation) -- Chukchi Peninsula. Acculturation. Ethnology. Migrant labor. Migration, Internal. Population. Chukchi Peninsula (Russia) -- History -- 20th century. Chukchi Peninsula (Russia) -- Population -- History -- 20th century. Russia (Federation) Russia (Federation) -- Chukchi Peninsula. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7249652

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ISBN:	9780774814676 (bound) 0774814675 (bound) 9780774814683 (pbk.) 0774814683 (pbk.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-282) and index.
Summary:	"Based on extensive research in the Arctic Russian region of Chukotka, Settlers on the Edge is the first English-language account of settler life anywhere in the circumpolar north to appear since Robert Paine's The White Arctic (1977), and the first to explore the experiences of Soviet-era migrants to the far north. Niobe Thompson describes the remarkable transformation of a population once dedicated to establishing colonial power on a northern frontier into a rooted community of locals now resisting a renewed colonial project. He also provides unique insights into the future of identity politics in the Arctic, the role of resource capital and the oligarchs in the Russian provinces, and the fundamental human questions of belonging and transience."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents:

pt. 1: The Soviet years, 1955-91. Northern settlement and the late-Soviet state
Arctic idyll: living in Soviet Chukotka
pt. 2: Transition to crisis, 1991-2000. Idyll destroyed
Surviving without the state
pt. 3: Reconstruction, 2001-5. Modernization again: the state returns
Two solitudes
Conclusion: practices of belonging.