This dissertation is an ethnographic account of the moral politics of food safety in post-Soviet Georgia. It focuses on the uneasy articulation and production of “global food safety” in the post-Soviet context, centering on the intersections of Georgian popular food politics, re…
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This dissertation investigates how writers in the People’s Republic of China during the Late Reform Era (1989–2012) represented through media the existential challenges facing their profession and the institution of Chinese literature. During this period, the state began to dive…
This dissertation project investigates the aesthetics and cultural-political implications of new experiments in screendance carried out by four different generations of dance artists in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) since the early 1990s. This rapidly developing and ever …
This dissertation explores the ways in which ethnic Buriats living on the fringes of the Mongol state deal with the drastic social changes that have resulted from the unexpected collapse of socialism and the shift to a market economy. By living and traveling with rural nomads du…
The war in Bosnia and its post-war peace heralded the coming-into-being of the "international community" as the dominant protagonist of post-cold war order, structured around the values of peace, democracy, the rule of law, humanitarian solidarity, and the inviolability of human…
In the last decade, labor migration of women from the former Soviet Union has grown exponentially. Nowhere is this more apparent than in Moldova, where 1/3 of the population works abroad, most illegally, and where about 1/2 of these migrants are women transnationally "commuting"…
Dark Finance offers one of the first ethnographic accounts of financial expansion and its political impacts in Eastern Europe. Following workers, managers, and investors in the Macedonian construction sector, Fabio Mattioli shows how financialization can empower authoritarian re…
This is an ethnographic study of what it means to be a Muslim woman in post-war and post-socialist Bosnia and Herzegovina. Almost two decades after the end of inter-ethnic wars that led to the dissolution of socialist Yugoslavia in the 1990s, Bosnia's inhabitants are undergoing …
