Predicament of Chukotka''s Indigenous Movement - Post-Soviet Activism in the Russian Far North

Klappentext Patty Gray explores why the 'indigenous rights movement' of the Chukotko people has been unsuccessful. Zusammenfassung In this book! Patty Gray explores the reasons why the 'indigenous rights movement' of the Chukotko people of the Russian Far North has been unsuccessful. She argues that the movement is a continuation of Soviet tendencies rather than something comparable to Native Rights movements in the Russian Far North. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface: Chukotka in the twenty-first century; Acknowledgements; Notes on transliteration; Vignette: 1948; 1. Epitomizing events; Vignette: 1956; 2. Starting a movement in Chukotka; Vignette: 1967; 3. The limits of resistance; Vignette: 1971; 4. Toward a history of Soviet Chukotka; Vignette: 1980; 5. Indigenous culture in a Russian space; Vignette: 1989; 6. Transformation of local politics in Chukotka; Vignette: 1996; 7. Socio-economic conditions in post-Soviet Chukotka; Vignette: 2002; Epilogue.

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• Authors: Patty Gray, Patty A. Gray, Patty A. (University of Alaska Gray, Gray Patty A.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.11.2004
• EAN: 9780521823463
• ISBN: 978-0-521-82346-3
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Russia, Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Indigenous Peoples, Relating to indigenous peoples, Social and cultural anthropology, Human rights, civil rights, c 1990 to c 2000, c 1990 to c 1999, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, International humanitarian law