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Daniel P. Todes’ Ivan Pavlov: A Russian Life in Science by Roger Smith
Ivan Pavlov: A Russian Life in Science by Daniel P. Todes Oxford University Press, 2014. 880 pages. It is going to be difficult for reviewers to avoid clichés about this wonderful biography – and...
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Pixelization in Crip Time: Disability, Online Sociality, and Self-Making in...
Vakas is a Russian man in his 30s with a traumatic brain injury acquired during childhood. He spends most of his days in his room in his family apartment. Occasionally, he convinces his parents to let...
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Book Forum: Tomas Matza’s Shock Therapy: Psychology, Precarity, and...
In Shock Therapy: Psychology, Precarity, and Well-Being in Postsocialist Russia (Duke University Press, 2018), Tomas Matza traces the landscape of “psy” disciplines, practices, and institutions across...
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COVID 19 in the life of elderly people in rural Russia: A crisis of...
At the heart of this ethnography are two stories of my informants, Ekaterina and Marina, who live in the countryside, in Karelia (a province in north-west Russia) and have various chronic diseases....
View ArticleScience Skepticism as a Veneer for Nationalistic Humor by Veronica Davidov
Recently we saw a splash of headlines about the Russian Covid-19 vaccine, as Russia became the first country to register a vaccine and governmental officials shared plans for starting mass...
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In Shock Therapy: Psychology, Precarity, and Well-being in Postsocialist Russia, Tomas Matza describes a fleeting encounter where he waits for one of his interlocutors whom he mistakes for an American...
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Shock Therapy is a remarkable ethnography that effectively weaves together new psychological practices, concerns about well-being, shifting modes of power, and the remaking of the self and sociality in...
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In Shock Therapy, Tomas Matza explores the terrain of psychosocial care and the ways in which people forge “psychosociality” in conditions not of their own choosing. Perhaps the most powerful...
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Of the many vivid and beautifully recounted scenes in Shock Therapy, one made an immediate and lasting impression on me. Matza has found himself at a group training session that features “body-oriented...
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