"This 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." . Catherine Alexander, Goldsmiths
College, London
Childhood 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.
Elena Khlinovskaya Rockhill was born in Russia and first
trained as a Biologist. In 2004 she received her Ph.D. in Social
Anthropology from Darwin College, Cambridge University. From
2004-2007 she worked as a Research Associate at the Department of
Social Anthropology, Cambridge University. She was a 2007
Wenner-Gren Hunt Postdoctoral Fellow, and a PI for an ESF-funded
international project 'Moved by the State: Perspectives on
Relocation and Resettlement in the Circumpolar North' at the
University of Alberta, Canada (2007-2010).
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