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In the post-Soviet period morality became a debatable concept,
open to a multitude of expressions and performances. From Russian
Orthodoxy to Islam, from shamanism to Protestantism, religions of
various kinds provided some of the first possible alternative moral
discourses and practices after the end of the Soviet system. This
influence remains strong today. Within the Russian context,
religion and morality intersect in such social domains as the
relief of social suffering, the interpretation of history, the
construction and reconstruction of traditions, individual and
social health, and business practices. The influence of religion is
also apparent in the way in which the Russian Orthodox Church
increasingly acts as the moral voice of the government. The
wide-ranging topics in this ethnographically based volume show the
broad religious influence on both discursive and everyday
moralities. The contributorsa reveal that although religion is a
significant aspect of the various assemblages of morality, much
like in other parts of the world, religion in postsocialist Russia
cannot be separated from the political or economic or transnational
institutional aspects of morality."
In the post-Soviet period morality became a debatable concept, open
to a multitude of expressions and performances. From Russian
Orthodoxy to Islam, from shamanism to Protestantism, religions of
various kinds provided some of the first possible alternative moral
discourses and practices after the end of the Soviet system. This
influence remains strong today. Within the Russian context,
religion and morality intersect in such social domains as the
relief of social suffering, the interpretation of history, the
construction and reconstruction of traditions, individual and
social health, and business practices. The influence of religion is
also apparent in the way in which the Russian Orthodox Church
increasingly acts as the moral voice of the government. The
wide-ranging topics in this ethnographically based volume show the
broad religious influence on both discursive and everyday
moralities. The contributors reveal that although religion is a
significant aspect of the various assemblages of morality, much
like in other parts of the world, religion in postsocialist Russia
cannot be separated from the political or economic or transnational
institutional aspects of morality.
Morality: An Anthropological Perspective provides the first account
of anthropological approaches to the question of morality. By
considering how morality is viewed and enacted in different
cultures, and how it is related to key social institutions such as
religion, law, gender, sexuality and medical practice, Morality
takes a closer look at some of the most central questions of the
morality debates of our time. The book combines theory with
practical case studies for student use. Drawing on anthropological,
philosophical and general social scientific literature, the book
will be useful for both undergraduate students and researchers.
Accessibly written, Morality provides a unique and wide-ranging
perspective on morality, and will be essential reading for those
interested in this important contemporary debate.
Morality: An Anthropological Perspective provides the first account
of anthropological approaches to the question of morality. By
considering how morality is viewed and enacted in different
cultures, and how it is related to key social institutions such as
religion, law, gender, sexuality and medical practice, Morality
takes a closer look at some of the most central questions of the
morality debates of our time. The book combines theory with
practical case studies for student use. Drawing on anthropological,
philosophical and general social scientific literature, the book
will be useful for both undergraduate students and researchers.
Accessibly written, Morality provides a unique and wide-ranging
perspective on morality, and will be essential reading for those
interested in this important contemporary debate.
Increasingly, anthropologists, political theorists and philosophers
are calling for imaginative and creative analyses and theories that
might help us think and bring about an otherwise. Disappointment
responds to this call by showing how collaboration between an
anthropologist and a political movement of marginalized peoples can
disclose new possibilities for being and acting politically.
Drawing from nearly a decade of research with the global anti-drug
war movement, Jarrett Zigon puts ethnography in dialogue with both
political theory and continental philosophy to rethink some of the
most fundamental ontological, political and ethical concepts. The
result is to show that ontological starting points have real
political implications, and thus, how an alternative ontological
starting point can lead to new possibilities for building worlds
more ethically attuned to their inhabitants.
If we see that our contemporary condition is one of war and widely
diffused complexity, how do we understand our most basic ethical
motivations? What might be the aims of our political activity? A
War on People takes up these questions and offers a glimpse of a
possible alternative future in this ethnographically and
theoretically rich examination of the activity of some unlikely
political actors: users of heroin and crack cocaine, both active
and former. The result is a groundbreaking book on how anti-drug
war political activity offers transformative processes that are
termed worldbuilding and enacts nonnormative, open, and
relationally inclusive alternatives to such key concepts as
community, freedom, and care. Read the author's article about the
opiod crisis on Open Democracy.
If we see that our contemporary condition is one of war and widely
diffused complexity, how do we understand our most basic ethical
motivations? What might be the aims of our political activity? A
War on People takes up these questions and offers a glimpse of a
possible alternative future in this ethnographically and
theoretically rich examination of the activity of some unlikely
political actors: users of heroin and crack cocaine, both active
and former. The result is a groundbreaking book on how anti-drug
war political activity offers transformative processes that are
termed worldbuilding and enacts nonnormative, open, and
relationally inclusive alternatives to such key concepts as
community, freedom, and care. Read the author's article about the
opiod crisis on Open Democracy.
This provocative study examines the role of today's Russian
Orthodox Church in the treatment of HIV/AIDS. Russia has one of the
fastest-growing rates of HIV infection in the world - 80 per cent
from intravenous drug use - and the Church remains its only
resource for fighting these diseases. Jarrett Zigon takes the
reader into a Church-run treatment center where, along with
self-transformational and religious approaches, he explores broader
anthropological questions - of morality, ethics, what constitutes a
'normal' life, and who defines it as such. Zigon argues that this
rare Russian partnership between sacred and political power carries
unintended consequences: even as the Church condemns the influence
of globalization as the root of the problem it seeks to combat, its
programs are cultivating citizen-subjects ready for self-governance
and responsibility, and better attuned to a world the Church
ultimately opposes.
Increasingly, anthropologists, political theorists and philosophers
are calling for imaginative and creative analyses and theories that
might help us think and bring about an otherwise. Disappointment
responds to this call by showing how collaboration between an
anthropologist and a political movement of marginalized peoples can
disclose new possibilities for being and acting politically.
Drawing from nearly a decade of research with the global anti-drug
war movement, Jarrett Zigon puts ethnography in dialogue with both
political theory and continental philosophy to rethink some of the
most fundamental ontological, political and ethical concepts. The
result is to show that ontological starting points have real
political implications, and thus, how an alternative ontological
starting point can lead to new possibilities for building worlds
more ethically attuned to their inhabitants.
This provocative study examines the role of today's Russian
Orthodox Church in the treatment of HIV/AIDS. Russia has one of the
fastest-growing rates of HIV infection in the world - 80 per cent
from intravenous drug use - and the Church remains its only
resource for fighting these diseases. Jarrett Zigon takes the
reader into a Church-run treatment center where, along with
self-transformational and religious approaches, he explores broader
anthropological questions - of morality, ethics, what constitutes a
'normal' life, and who defines it as such. Zigon argues that this
rare Russian partnership between sacred and political power carries
unintended consequences: even as the Church condemns the influence
of globalization as the root of the problem it seeks to combat, its
programs are cultivating citizen-subjects ready for self-governance
and responsibility, and better attuned to a world the Church
ultimately opposes.
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