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She's like a daughter to me: insights into care, work and kinship from rural Russia / Kay, Rebecca

Kay, Rebecca	Journal Article
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2013.

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This article draws on ethnographic research into a state-funded homecare service in rural Russia. The article discusses intersections between care, work and kinship in the relationships between homecare workers and their elderly wards and explores the ways in which references to kinship, as a means of authenticating paid care and explaining its emotional content, reinforce public and private oppositions while doing little to relieve the tensions and conflicts of care work. The discussion brings together detailed empirical insights into local ideologies and practices as a way of generating new theoretical perspectives, which will be of relevance beyond the particular context of study.

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Russia ; Kinship ; Rural Russia ; Homecare Workers ; Conflicts of Care Work

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ID: 122821

Situating property in transformation: beyond the private and the collective / Lindner, Peter

Lindner, Peter	Journal Article
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2013.

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In most parts of the post-socialist world high expectations regarding privatisation were quickly disappointed when it became obvious that property practices did not follow the ideal type predicted by market models. The article addresses this divergence and emphasises the necessity of overcoming the dualism of an ideal type of property rights on the one hand and the way property is handled in everyday life on the other. It argues that concrete situations as well as the necessary justifications of practices have hitherto both been widely neglected as empirical foci in studies on property relations. Five brief episodes from the privatisation of collective farms in rural Russia serve as examples to illustrate how situations and justifications are reflexively linked by drawing on and negotiating about differing 'orders of worth'.

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Russia ; Property Rights ; Privatisation ; Property Relations ; Rural Russia ; Market Models ;
Post Socialist World

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ID: 096241

Sources of income, mental health and quality of life in rural R / O'Brien, David; Wegren, Stephen; Patsiorkovsky, Valery

O'Brien, David	Journal Article
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2010.

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This article reports on a survey examining sources of income and their effects on the mental health and subjective quality of life of residents in nine rural Russian regions. Using conventional measures of depressed mood and respondents' assessments of the quality of their lives in different domains, the authors find that the emergence of a mixed economy, that generates income from salary and wages and household enterprises, as well as government transfers, has produced differentiation in the subjective psychological as well as material quality of rural residents' lives.

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Economy ; Mental Health ; Rural Russia ; Sources of Income

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