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

这个主要是人种学的博士论文项目探讨了在十年的社会经济动荡中，国家、公民社会和家庭之间的边界是如何重新谈判的，即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育儿和育父。父母如何协调他们作为丈夫和妻子、母亲和父亲的角色，以及他们认为在一个不再由高压家长式国家主导的快速变化的社会中，他们对孩子负有什么责任？家长如何与更公开的领域(学校、政府机构、社区组织等)互动？他们对国家家庭相关政策的变化有何感受？尽管研究人员正在积极探索新的后苏联时代女性的经历，但很少有人关注男性，或者在20世纪90年代独立的俄罗斯将家庭作为一个单位。这篇论文填补了后苏联世界文学的一个重要空白，并有助于更广泛的关于国家-家庭关系、公民社会建设的理论辩论，以及关于家庭和性别的比较观点。本论文的材料来自于对居住在俄罗斯萨拉托夫市的20户家庭长达8个月的深度访谈和参与式观察。

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.