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early 2000s as vast capital flows enter the country. Making Liveability: Thermal Heat The view from the sixth floor of Reykjavík Energy's geologically inspired head office 8 is impressive as snow stretches towards the horizon, stencilling out

-based economy. Whereas the cattle economy focuses on subsistence and remains embedded in the richly interwoven fabric of kin and residential relations, the horse economy is much more marketized and leads to the accumulation of capital. As the argumentation is

space for the political exile of the elite, specifically to exclude their influence on political matters in the capital. On the one hand, Asian Siberia was imagined in official legal rhetoric to imitate Russian cultural forms of agriculture centered on

posts and administrative centers) and, at least for the Komi informants from Samburg and Saranpaul’, consists of second-order regions situated on the Ob’ tributaries. These smaller regions are situated one after the other, each with its own capital and

violence against the Boxers with black humor. M. Mukhin's “At a reception in Berlin” ( figure 6 ) in Iskry mocks Marshal Waldersee's widespread use of capital punishment against Boxers and their sympathizers. 35 In the image, a Chinese man apologizes for

establishment of photographic societies in both the capital cities and the provinces, of which the most prominent was the Russian Photographic Society, also played a significant role. 10 Also important were photography journals such as Photograph

Any research conducted in Okinskii district (Russ.: raion ) of Buriatiia, southcentral Siberia, starts with the road. It takes around twelve hours to get to Oka—as the district is often referred to by the locals—from Ulan-Ude, the capital of

all in the constructed discursive grid of the discipline with a necessary historicity and the class nature of sociality. We would now like to move from the field as seen from the capital—to the actual field. Reading researchers’ field diaries, a

had experimented with various market instruments and they had been open to capital from non-socialist countries (e.g. Bockman 2011 ). Asymmetrical relationships with capitalist countries at the time of structural crisis of global capitalism had put

neighbors, the inhabitants of Gilân stigmatise especially their predilection for bread, which they sometimes consider with amusement, sometimes with compassion, sometimes also with repulsion. I heard some young people from Rasht, the capital of Gilân