Contesting Capitalism at the Post-Soviet Dacha: The Meaning of Food Cultivation for Urban Russians
Contesting Capitalism at the Post-Soviet Dacha: The Meaning of Food Cultivation for Urban Russians
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在后苏联别墅中对抗资本主义:粮食种植对俄罗斯城市人的意义
DOI:
10.2307/3185655
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发表时间:
2003
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0.9
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J. Zavisca
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作者:
J. Zavisca
Nearly half of urban Russian households grow food on their dacha plots. This study investigates the meaning of this activity for both those who embrace it and those who reject it. Existing scholarship frames the post-Soviet dacha as a survival strategy and debates its efficiency. Ethnographic evidence reveals that the dacha provides not simply a source of food but a discursive arena for debating the rationality and morality of the transition to a market economy. Due to their rich history, dachas may be interpreted as sites of production or of consumption, as economic necessities or status signifiers. This ambiguity makes dachas particularly salient in disputes over the proper relationship between economic power and social esteem in the shifting stratification order.