Gone with Cows and Kin? Climate, Globalization, and Youth Alienation in Siberia

“The transition from a communist infrastructure to a market economy presents a great challenge to indigenous agropastoralists of the former Soviet Union” . . . the demise of the Soviet era, along with its imposed economic and subsistence infrastructures, presents a unique opportunity to understand what form households took in the pre-collective and collective era and what form they take today. (Susan Crate 2003: adapted from p. 499)