Doctoral Dissertation Research; "The Post Soviet Family: Boundaries in Transition

这个主要是民族志博士论文项目探讨了国家，公民社会和家庭之间的边界如何在社会经济动荡的十年中重新谈判谁应该为儿童提供资源。该项目还审查了父母在家庭中的性别角色，以及男女公共角色的变化如何影响养育子女。在一个快速变化的社会中，父母如何协商他们作为丈夫和妻子、母亲和父亲的角色？他们认为自己对孩子的责任是什么？家长如何与更多的公共领域（学校、政府机构、社区组织等）互动？他们如何感受国家家庭政策的变化？虽然研究人员正在积极探索妇女在新的后苏联时代的经历，但很少有人关注男人，也很少有人关注20世纪90年代独立的俄罗斯的家庭。本论文填补了后苏联世界文学的一个重大空白，有助于更大的理论辩论国家家庭关系，公民社会建设，家庭和性别的比较视角。本论文的材料来自于对俄罗斯萨拉托夫市20个家庭为期8个月的深入访谈和参与式观察。

This largely ethnographic doctoral dissertation project explores how the borders between state, civic society, and families are being renegotiated in terms of who should provide resources for children in a decade of socio-economic upheaval. The project also examines parental gender roles within the family and how changes in the public roles of men and women affect mothering and fathering. How do parents negotiate their roles as husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, and what do they perceive their responsibilities to their children to be in a fast-changing society no longer dominated by a heavy-handed paternalistic state? How do parents interact with the more public sphere (schools, government agencies, community organizations, etc.) and how do they experience changing national family-related policies? Although researchers are actively exploring the experiences of women in the new post-Soviet era, very little attention is being focused on men, or on the family as a unit in the independent Russia of the l990s. This dissertation fills a significant gap in the literature on the post-Soviet world and contributes to larger theoretical debates on state-family relations, civil society building, and to comparative perspectives on family and gender. Material for this dissertation comes from eight months of in-depth interviewing and participant observation with twenty families living in the city of Saratov, Russia.