1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450046303321

Autore

Caldwell Melissa L. <1969->

Titolo

Not by bread alone [[electronic resource] ] : social support in the new Russia / / Melissa L. Caldwell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2004

ISBN

0-520-93725-2

1-282-76295-8

1-59734-778-7

9786612762956

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (260 p.)

Disciplina

362.5/83

Soggetti

Soup kitchens - Russia (Federation) - Moscow

Social networks - Russia (Federation)

Food relief - Russia (Federation)

Poor - Russia (Federation)

Electronic books.

Russia (Federation) Social conditions 1991-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Transnational soup -- Making do -- Everyday survival in a shortage society -- From hand to hand -- Informal networks -- The forest feeds us -- Organic exchange -- Strategic intimacy -- Communities of assistance -- The mythology of hunger -- Socialism revisited.

Sommario/riassunto

What Muscovites get in a soup kitchen run by the Christian Church of Moscow is something far more subtle and complex-if no less necessary and nourishing-than the food that feeds their hunger. In Not by Bread Alone, the first full-length ethnographic study of poverty and social welfare in the postsocialist world, Melissa L. Caldwell focuses on the everyday operations and civil transactions at CCM soup kitchens to reveal the new realities, the enduring features, and the intriguing subtext of social support in Russia today.In an international food aid community, Caldwell explores how Muscovites employ a number of improvisational tactics to satisfy their material needs. She shows how



the relationships that develop among members of this community-elderly Muscovite recipients, Russian aid workers, African student volunteers, and North American and European donors and volunteers-provide forms of social support that are highly valued and ultimately far more important than material resources. In Not by Bread Alone we see how the soup kitchens become sites of social stability and refuge for all who interact there-not just those with limited financial means-and how Muscovites articulate definitions of hunger and poverty that depend far more on the extent of one's social contacts than on material factors.By rethinking the ways in which relationships between social and economic practices are theorized-by identifying social relations and social status as Russia's true economic currency-this book challenges prevailing ideas about the role of the state, the nature of poverty and welfare, the feasibility of Western-style reforms, and the primacy of social connections in the daily lives of ordinary people in post-Soviet Russia.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910699705703321

Titolo

Field guide for mapping post-fire soil burn severity [[electronic resource] /] / Annette Parsons ... [and others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Fort Collins, CO : , : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, , [2010]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (49 pages) : color illustrations, color maps

Collana

General technical report RMRS ; ; GTR-243

Altri autori (Persone)

ParsonsAnnette

Soggetti

Post-fire forest management - United States

Forest fires - Environmental aspects - United States

Forest soils - United States - Analysis

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed on Jan. 10, 2011).

"October 2010."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 34-36).