Faculty
| Jakob Rigi | ||||||
Jakob Rigi studied in Iran and Sweden, and has a PhD from London University (1999). He has done extended fieldwork in Kazakhstan and Russia, 1995 - 1996 and 2003. His main research interests are power, value, money, commodity class, gender, ethnicity, state, market, Mafia and sex work. He is working currently on various processes of commoditization in the post-Soviet space. His major publication is : Post-Soviet Chaos: Violence and Dispossession in Kazakhstan (2002), London: Pluto Press. Teaching interests: Power, Value and Culture, Marx, political economy. |
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Selected Publications
| 2004 | Corruption in Kazakhstan’, in Italo Pardo (Ed.) Corruption Between Morality and Law, Oxford & New York: Berghan Books. |
| 2003 | Sovyet Sonrasi Kesmekes: Kazakistan’da Siddet va Mulksuzlesme, Istanbul: Iletisim. |
| ‘Conditions of Post-Soviet Youth and Work in Almaty, Kazakhstan’, Critique of Anthropology, 23: 01, 35-50. | |
| 2002 | Post-Soviet Chaos: Violence and Dispossession in Kazakhstan, London: Pluto Press. |
| (With C. Heaton and T. Kurihara)‘Alternative Pedagogy of Learning and Teaching Anthropology’, Anthropology Matters (The Journal on line of the Department of Anthropology, SOAS, University of London). |