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Sex, Love, and Migration

Postsocialism, Modernity, and Intimacy from Istanbul to the Arctic

By: Alexia Bloch

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Sex, Love, and Migration

Postsocialism, Modernity, and Intimacy from Istanbul to the Arctic

By: Alexia Bloch

Sex, Love, and Migration goes beyond a common narrative of women's exploitation as a feature of migration in the early twenty-first century, a story that features young women from poor countries who cross borders to work in low paid and often intimate labor. Alexia Bloch argues that the mobility of women is marked not only by risks but also by personal and social transformation as migration fundamentally reshapes women's emotional worlds and aspirations. Bloch documents how, as women have crossed borders between the former Soviet Union and Turkey since the early 1990s, they have forged new forms of intimacy in their households in Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia, but also in Istanbul, where they often work for years on end. Sex, Love, and Migration takes as its subject the lives of post-Soviet migrant women employed in three distinct spheres—sex work, the garment trade, and domestic work. Bloch challenges us to decouple images of women on the move from simple assumptions about danger, victimization, and trafficking. She redirects our attention to the aspirations and lives of women who, despite myriad impediments, move between global capitalist centers and their home communities.

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Cornell University Press

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1501712055

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Sex, Love, and Migration

Postsocialism, Modernity, and Intimacy from Istanbul to the Arctic

By: Alexia Bloch

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1501709410

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The Museum at the End of the World

Encounters in the Russian Far East

By: Alexia Bloch,Laurel Kendall

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The Museum at the End of the World

Encounters in the Russian Far East

By: Alexia Bloch,Laurel Kendall

Anthropologists Alexia Bloch and Laurel Kendall tell the story of their journey retracing the nineteenth-century Jesup North Pacific Expedition to the remote easternmost extension of Siberia and the northwest coast of North America.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812218787

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Red Ties and Residential Schools

Indigenous Siberians in a Post-Soviet State

By: Alexia Bloch

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Red Ties and Residential Schools

Indigenous Siberians in a Post-Soviet State

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In this book Alexia Bloch examines the experiences of a community of Evenki, an indigenous group in central Siberia, to consider the place of residential schooling inidentity politics in contemporary Russia. Residential schools established in the 1920s brought Siberians under the purview of the Soviet state, and Bloch demonstrates how in the post-Soviet era, a time of jarring social change, these schools continue to embody the salience of Soviet cultural practices and the spirit of belonging to a collective. She explores how Evenk intellectuals are endowing residential schools with new symbolic power and turning them into a locus for political mobilization. In contrast to the binary model of oppressed/oppressor underlying many accounts of state/indigenous relations, Bloch's work provides a complex picture of the experiences of Siberians in Soviet and post-Soviet society. Bloch's research, conducted in a central Siberian town during the 1990s, is ethnographically grounded in life stories recorded with Evenk women; surveys of households navigating histories of collectivization and recent, rampant privatization; and in residential schools and in museums, both central to Evenk identity politics. While considering how residential schools once targeted marginalized reindeer herders, especially young girls, for socialization and assimilation, Bloch reveals how class, region, and gendered experience currently influence perspectives on residential schooling. The analysis centers on the ways vehicles of the Soviet state have been reworked and still sometimes embraced by members of an indigenous community as they forge new identities and allegiances in the post-Soviet era.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812293622

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Red Ties and Residential Schools

Indigenous Siberians in a Post-Soviet State

By: Alexia Bloch

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Indigenous Siberians in a Post-Soviet State

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The Museum at the End of the World

Encounters in the Russian Far East

By: Alexia Bloch,Laurel Kendall

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Encounters in the Russian Far East

By: Alexia Bloch,Laurel Kendall

A little over a century ago the American Museum of Natural History launched its ambitious Jesup North Pacific Expedition to learn more about the peoples inhabiting the remote easternmost extension of Siberia and the northwest coast of North America. In The Museum at the End of the World: Encounters in the Russian Far East, anthropologists Alexia Bloch and Laurel Kendall tell the story of their journey through this same part of the world in 1998, retracing the old expedition as they link the expedition legacy of artifacts, photographs, and archival material from the museum in New York to the present-day descendants of its subjects. Contrasting the time of the Jesup expedition with their own travel, the authors reveal a physical and cultural landscape that was profoundly shaken over the past century, first by Soviet control and then by that empire's unraveling. The Museum at the End of the World is not the story of a heroic adventure but rather a series of conversations about Siberian culture with museum workers, native scholars, performers and artisans, and a great variety of ordinary people. They reveal a strong concern about past legacies, cultural preservation, and their uncertain future as they struggle to reinvent themselves. The authors' combination of travelers' curiosity and professional inquiry provide a compelling portrait of life in the Russian Far East and a meditation on the fate of culture and tradition in the face of hard economic times and sudden autonomy after decades of state control.

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0812293665

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Book's by Alexia Bloch

Sex, Love, and Migration

Sex, Love, and Migration

Sex, Love, and Migration

Sex, Love, and Migration

The Museum at the End of the World

The Museum at the End of the World

Red Ties and Residential Schools

Red Ties and Residential Schools

Red Ties and Residential Schools

Red Ties and Residential Schools

The Museum at the End of the World

The Museum at the End of the World

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