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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Univ of California Pr
Publication date
March 1, 2004
Pages
262
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780520238756
ISBN-10
0520238753
Dimensions
0.75 by 6 by 8.75 in.
Weight
1.05 lbs.
Availability§
Out of Print
Original list price
$85.00
Other format details
university press
Subjects
§As reported by publisher
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What Muscovites get in a soup kitchen run by the Christian Church of Moscow is something far more subtle and complexÂif no less necessary and nourishingÂthan the food that feeds their hunger. In Not by Bread Alone, the first full-length ethnographic study of poverty and social welfare in the postsocialist world, Melissa L. Caldwell focuses on the everyday operations and civil transactions at CCM soup kitchens to reveal the new realities, the enduring features, and the intriguing subtext of social support in Russia today.
In an international food aid community, Caldwell explores how Muscovites employ a number of improvisational tactics to satisfy their material needs. She shows how the relationships that develop among members of this communityÂelderly Muscovite recipients, Russian aid workers, African student volunteers, and North American and European donors and volunteersÂprovide forms of social support that are highly valued and ultimately far more important than material resources. In Not by Bread Alone we see how the soup kitchens become sites of social stability and refuge for all who interact thereÂnot just those with limited financial meansÂand how Muscovites articulate definitions of hunger and poverty that depend far more on the extent of oneâs social contacts than on material factors.
By rethinking the ways in which relationships between social and economic practices are theorizedÂby identifying social relations and social status as Russiaâs true economic currencyÂthis book challenges prevailing ideas about the role of the state, the nature of poverty and welfare, the feasibility of Western-style reforms, and the primacy of social connections in the daily lives of ordinary people in post-Soviet Russia.
In an international food aid community, Caldwell explores how Muscovites employ a number of improvisational tactics to satisfy their material needs. She shows how the relationships that develop among members of this communityÂelderly Muscovite recipients, Russian aid workers, African student volunteers, and North American and European donors and volunteersÂprovide forms of social support that are highly valued and ultimately far more important than material resources. In Not by Bread Alone we see how the soup kitchens become sites of social stability and refuge for all who interact thereÂnot just those with limited financial meansÂand how Muscovites articulate definitions of hunger and poverty that depend far more on the extent of oneâs social contacts than on material factors.
By rethinking the ways in which relationships between social and economic practices are theorizedÂby identifying social relations and social status as Russiaâs true economic currencyÂthis book challenges prevailing ideas about the role of the state, the nature of poverty and welfare, the feasibility of Western-style reforms, and the primacy of social connections in the daily lives of ordinary people in post-Soviet Russia.
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Hardcover
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from Univ of California Pr (March 1, 2004)
9780520238756 | details & prices | 262 pages | 6.00 × 8.75 × 0.75 in. | 1.05 lbs | List price $85.00
About: What Muscovites get in a soup kitchen run by the Christian Church of Moscow is something far more subtle and complexÂif no less necessary and nourishingÂthan the food that feeds their hunger.
About: What Muscovites get in a soup kitchen run by the Christian Church of Moscow is something far more subtle and complexÂif no less necessary and nourishingÂthan the food that feeds their hunger.
Paperback
from Univ of California Pr (March 1, 2004)
9780520238763 | details & prices | 262 pages | 6.00 × 8.75 × 0.75 in. | 0.80 lbs | List price $34.95
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