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'An Island of Socialism in a Capitalist Country': Postsocialist Russian Science and the Culture of the State.
- Source :
- Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology; Dec2005, Vol. 70 Issue 4, p443-464, 22p
- Publication Year :
- 2005
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Abstract
- Through a comparison of privatization programs in two physics institutes, this article explores the ways in which scientists in the Siberian science city of Akademgorodok adapted to the low levels of state funding available to them in the 1990s. Scientists transformed structures that were available under socialism into hybrid state-private ventures. Rather than 'freeing' Russian science from its former dependence on the state, however, these changes have reconfigured, and in some cases even strengthened, the relationship between state power and the production of knowledge. Seeing 'the state' as it is constituted in Russian scientists' discourse challenges Western models of the autonomy of science. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00141844
- Volume :
- 70
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 19740222
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00141840500419741