Melissa L Caldwell
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 134244 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Melissa L Caldwell |
| NOMBRES | Melissa L |
| APELLIDO | Caldwell |
| FIRMA | CALDWELL M L |
| AFILIACIONES | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6606-3173 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 217 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1998 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Until every pet has a home
In the United States of America, caring for lost, abandoned, and abused animals, what is known as ‘animal rescue, ’ is an expensive activity that entails significant infusions of financial resources. Despite the millions, perhaps even billions, of dollars that move through animal rescue, saving animals is an unpredictable venture that often results in failure. In order to save as many animals as possible and work toward a hopeful future of no mor…
Deforestation
This piece is part of a special section of "hundreds" in honor of Kathleen Stewart. It considers the forest as a space of loss-the loss of intimacy, familiarity, friendship, and ethnographic certainty-as a casualty of the war on Ukraine waged by Russia, the country where the author has conducted fieldwork since the 1990s
Multiple Moralities and Religions in Post-Soviet Russia
In the post-Soviet period morality became a debatable concept, open to a multitude of expressions and performances. From Russian Orthodoxy to Islam, from shamanism to Protestantism, religions of various kinds provided some of the first possible alternative moral discourses and practices after the end of the Soviet system. This influence remains strong today. Within the Russian context, religion and morality intersect in such social domains as the…
How Faith-Based Human Rights Work Gets Done in Moscow
Churches and other faith-based communities have taken the lead in the human rights sector in Russia. At a time when many secular activists have been harassed, imprisoned, forced into exile, and even murdered, interfaith partnerships working on civil rights for minorities and migrants have been tolerated and officially recognized. Part of a long history of civic–oriented religious activism, they benefit from their legacy as moral leaders. While so…
Feeding activism in Russia
Themes of fellowship are prominent in the words and actions of participants in Moscow’s Christian communities, especially as congregations promote social events as fundamental modes of religious expression and experience. Food sharing activities are noteworthy among these events, as they fit within theological traditions that celebrate how food mediates the many different communities and experiences that constitute religious life in Moscow. Food’…
Digestive Anxieties
During the communist period, Soviet officials emphasized the power of food in their projects to encourage appropriate political sensibilities and attain cultural progress. From new industrial food systems to public catering, and from culinary multiculturalism to modernist cuisine, Soviet consumers were promised that communist food practices would bring about higher standards of living, greater opportunities for pleasure and leisure, and healthier…
Ethical Eating in the Postsocialist and Socialist World
Current discussions of the ethics around alternative food movements--concepts such as "local," "organic," and "fair trade"--tend to focus on their growth and significance in advanced capitalist societies. In this groundbreaking contribution to critical food studies, editors Yuson Jung, Jakob A. Klein, and Melissa L. Caldwell explore what constitutes "ethical food" and "ethical eating" in socialist and formerly socialist societies. With essays by …
Sacred Spaces and Civic Action
This article examines several key sites where Russia's civic and religious bodies intersect in pursuit of social justice goals. Based on ethnographic fieldwork among religious communities and social justice organizations in Moscow, the article focuses on the physical, social, and legal spaces where church and state, secular and sacred, civic and personal intersect and the consequences of these intersections for how Russians understand new configu…
Taste and embodied practice
This chapter discusses some ways in which &s;taste&s; and its relationship to embodied practice have been variously recognized and theorized in accounts of consumption. It shows how scholars have thought about taste and embodied practice, particularly in terms of studies of material culture and consumption. The chapter considers what attention to taste and embodied practice illuminates about human nature and social phenomena more broadly. State g…
Living Faithfully in an Unjust World
This book examines what it means to be a compassionate, caring person in a place like Russia, which has become a country of stark income inequalities and political restrictions.Through vivid ethnography about a thriving Moscow-based network of religious and secular charitable service providers, the book explores how assistance providers’ efforts to “do the right thing” for their communities produce new modes of social justice and civic engagement…
Digestive Politics in Russia
Accounts of the cultural aspects of food consumption have conventionally privileged acts of production and consumption rather than acts of disposal. In the case of eating, attention has been given to ingestion as the moment when cultural values are consumed and expressed, so that choice and taste preferences are presented as part of the act of consuming. As a result, the sensory dimensions of taste are located at the palate: flavor, aroma, textur…
Placing Faith in Development
The development-oriented work of Moscow's religious communities is examined in this article, with a focus on how a core group of faith organizations present themselves as offering an alternative vision of intervention and improvement that seeks to protect Russian citizens from what proponents suggest are the shortcomings of previous democratizing and civil society ventures. Staff and supporters within Moscow's faith-based assistance sphere conten…
Growing the nation. Fresh food, organic capitalism, and community organizing in Russian gardens
Foods of Association
T he M c D onaldization of S ociety , 5th edn by George Ritzer
(2010). The McDonaldization of Society, 5th edn by George Ritzer. Food, Culture & Society: Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 297-299
Dacha Idylls
Dacha Idylls is a lively account of dacha life and how Russians experience this deeply rooted tradition of the summer cottage amid the changing cultural, economic, and political landscape of postsocialist Russia. Simultaneously beloved and reviled, dachas wield a power that makes owning and caring for them an essential part of life. In this book, Melissa L. Caldwell captures the dacha’s abiding traditions and demonstrates why Russians insist that…
Entries
The Politics of Rightness
The Russian Orthodox Church is Russia's "official" national religion, and its attitudes toward other denominations are ambivalent at best. Thus, the collaboration of Orthodox and non-Orthodox Christian congregations in support of social welfare programs offers an instructive example of successful interfaith initiatives in Russia
Dorena Caroli. L'enfance abandonmée et délinquante dans Ia Russie soviétique (1917-1937). Paris
Crossing the line
Feeding the Body and Nourishing the Soul
This article explores the phenomenon of natural foods in post-Soviet Russia. Although Russian natural foods discourses and practices resonate with Western organics, Slow Foods Movements, and Food Democracy movements regarding health, safety, and small-scale agricultural production, they depart significantly in their attention to nature as the source of uniquely Russian qualities of sociability and spirituality. By drawing attention to both the ac…
Elder care in the new Russia
Changing emigration and co-residence patterns in the post-Soviet period have left many elderly Russians living alone or without caretakers in close proximity. In addition, Russia's transition from state socialism to neoliberal capitalism has encouraged private welfare groups, often funded and staffed by foreigners, to assume increased responsibility for providing social security to elderly people. Consequently, notions of compassion are undergoin…
Cheated of Childhood
Cheated of Childhood: The International Labor Organization Tries to Rescue and Rehabilitate the Street Children of St. Petersburg. Dir. Emily Marlow. Life Series 3. Oley, Pa.: Bullfrog Films, 2002. 27 min. Color. Documentary. 45.00, rental of video or DVD. - Volume 65 Issue 4
A New Role for Religion in Russia's New Consumer Age
Of all the changes that have marked Russia's transformation in the postsoviet period, one of the most intriguing has been the emergence of a vibrant religious orientation in what was formerly an of
Newness and Loss in Moscow
The Taste of Nationalism
In this article I consider how Muscovites cultivate and express nationalist sentiments through their food choices. During the last ten years of the post-socialist transition, Russian consumers have encountered an expanding and increasingly transnational commodity market. Locally produced elements of Russian cuisine both compete with and imitate foreign food products. In response to perceptions that foreign cultures are displacing or subsuming loc…
Domesticating the French Fry
This article is an ethnographic study of how Russian consumers have 'domesticated' McDonald's. Specifically, I am concerned with how Russians blur the boundaries between the personal and the public, the local and the foreign, by simultaneously drawing aspects of McDonald's into the intimate spaces of their everyday lives and personalizing the public McDonald's experience. By engaging with recent debates about the nature of localization, I suggest…
Consumers Exiting Socialism
Introduisant ce dossier sur la consommation dans l'Europe postsocialiste (ex-URSS et pays de l'Est), les AA. situent d'abord brievement ces nouvelles ethnographies par rapport aux contributions recentes sur l'anthropologie de la culture materielle et de la consommation. Ils en delimitent ensuite les grandes orientations thematiques et mettent en evidence la specificite historique des pratiques consumeristes postsocialistes. Selon les AA., la cons…
The Anthropology of Food and Body
The Anthropology of Food and Body: Gender, Meaning, and Power. Carole M. Counihan. London: Routledge, 1999. vii. 256 pp., photographs, notes, bibliography, recipes, index
Elder care in the new Russia
Changing emigration and co-residence patterns in the post-Soviet period have left many elderly Russians living alone or without caretakers in close proximity. In addition, Russia's transition from state socialism to neoliberal capitalism has encouraged private welfare groups, often funded and staffed by foreigners, to assume increased responsibility for providing social security to elderly people. Consequently, notions of compassion are undergoin…
Placing Faith in Development
The development-oriented work of Moscow's religious communities is examined in this article, with a focus on how a core group of faith organizations present themselves as offering an alternative vision of intervention and improvement that seeks to protect Russian citizens from what proponents suggest are the shortcomings of previous democratizing and civil society ventures. Staff and supporters within Moscow's faith-based assistance sphere conten…
A New Role for Religion in Russia's New Consumer Age
Of all the changes that have marked Russia's transformation in the postsoviet period, one of the most intriguing has been the emergence of a vibrant religious orientation in what was formerly an of
Dacha Idylls
Dacha Idylls is a lively account of dacha life and how Russians experience this deeply rooted tradition of the summer cottage amid the changing cultural, economic, and political landscape of postsocialist Russia. Simultaneously beloved and reviled, dachas wield a power that makes owning and caring for them an essential part of life. In this book, Melissa L. Caldwell captures the dacha’s abiding traditions and demonstrates why Russians insist that…
The Politics of Rightness
The Russian Orthodox Church is Russia's "official" national religion, and its attitudes toward other denominations are ambivalent at best. Thus, the collaboration of Orthodox and non-Orthodox Christian congregations in support of social welfare programs offers an instructive example of successful interfaith initiatives in Russia
Feeding the Body and Nourishing the Soul
This article explores the phenomenon of natural foods in post-Soviet Russia. Although Russian natural foods discourses and practices resonate with Western organics, Slow Foods Movements, and Food Democracy movements regarding health, safety, and small-scale agricultural production, they depart significantly in their attention to nature as the source of uniquely Russian qualities of sociability and spirituality. By drawing attention to both the ac…
Until every pet has a home
In the United States of America, caring for lost, abandoned, and abused animals, what is known as ‘animal rescue, ’ is an expensive activity that entails significant infusions of financial resources. Despite the millions, perhaps even billions, of dollars that move through animal rescue, saving animals is an unpredictable venture that often results in failure. In order to save as many animals as possible and work toward a hopeful future of no mor…
Digestive Politics in Russia
Accounts of the cultural aspects of food consumption have conventionally privileged acts of production and consumption rather than acts of disposal. In the case of eating, attention has been given to ingestion as the moment when cultural values are consumed and expressed, so that choice and taste preferences are presented as part of the act of consuming. As a result, the sensory dimensions of taste are located at the palate: flavor, aroma, textur…
Assessing Cultural Anthropology
Assessing Cultural Anthropology. Robert Borofsky. ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1994. xix. 566 pp., references, indexes
The Anthropology of Food and Body
The Anthropology of Food and Body: Gender, Meaning, and Power. Carole M. Counihan. London: Routledge, 1999. vii. 256 pp., photographs, notes, bibliography, recipes, index
Consumers Exiting Socialism
Introduisant ce dossier sur la consommation dans l'Europe postsocialiste (ex-URSS et pays de l'Est), les AA. situent d'abord brievement ces nouvelles ethnographies par rapport aux contributions recentes sur l'anthropologie de la culture materielle et de la consommation. Ils en delimitent ensuite les grandes orientations thematiques et mettent en evidence la specificite historique des pratiques consumeristes postsocialistes. Selon les AA., la cons…
The Taste of Nationalism
In this article I consider how Muscovites cultivate and express nationalist sentiments through their food choices. During the last ten years of the post-socialist transition, Russian consumers have encountered an expanding and increasingly transnational commodity market. Locally produced elements of Russian cuisine both compete with and imitate foreign food products. In response to perceptions that foreign cultures are displacing or subsuming loc…
Not by Bread Alone
What Muscovites get in a soup kitchen run by the Christian Church of Moscow is something far more subtle and complex—if no less necessary and nourishing—than the food that feeds their hunger. In Not by Bread Alone, the first full-length ethnographic study of poverty and social welfare in the postsocialist world, Melissa L. Caldwell focuses on the everyday operations and civil transactions at CCM soup kitchens to reveal the new realities, the endu…
Domesticating the French Fry
This article is an ethnographic study of how Russian consumers have 'domesticated' McDonald's. Specifically, I am concerned with how Russians blur the boundaries between the personal and the public, the local and the foreign, by simultaneously drawing aspects of McDonald's into the intimate spaces of their everyday lives and personalizing the public McDonald's experience. By engaging with recent debates about the nature of localization, I suggest…
A New Role for Religion in Russia's New Consumer Age
Of all the changes that have marked Russia's transformation in the postsoviet period, one of the most intriguing has been the emergence of a vibrant religious orientation in what was formerly an of
Newness and Loss in Moscow
Cheated of Childhood
Cheated of Childhood: The International Labor Organization Tries to Rescue and Rehabilitate the Street Children of St. Petersburg. Dir. Emily Marlow. Life Series 3. Oley, Pa.: Bullfrog Films, 2002. 27 min. Color. Documentary. 45.00, rental of video or DVD. - Volume 65 Issue 4
Feeding the Body and Nourishing the Soul
This article explores the phenomenon of natural foods in post-Soviet Russia. Although Russian natural foods discourses and practices resonate with Western organics, Slow Foods Movements, and Food Democracy movements regarding health, safety, and small-scale agricultural production, they depart significantly in their attention to nature as the source of uniquely Russian qualities of sociability and spirituality. By drawing attention to both the ac…
Elder care in the new Russia
Changing emigration and co-residence patterns in the post-Soviet period have left many elderly Russians living alone or without caretakers in close proximity. In addition, Russia's transition from state socialism to neoliberal capitalism has encouraged private welfare groups, often funded and staffed by foreigners, to assume increased responsibility for providing social security to elderly people. Consequently, notions of compassion are undergoin…
Dorena Caroli. L'enfance abandonmée et délinquante dans Ia Russie soviétique (1917-1937). Paris
Crossing the line
Entries
The Politics of Rightness
The Russian Orthodox Church is Russia's "official" national religion, and its attitudes toward other denominations are ambivalent at best. Thus, the collaboration of Orthodox and non-Orthodox Christian congregations in support of social welfare programs offers an instructive example of successful interfaith initiatives in Russia
T he M c D onaldization of S ociety , 5th edn by George Ritzer
(2010). The McDonaldization of Society, 5th edn by George Ritzer. Food, Culture & Society: Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 297-299
Dacha Idylls
Dacha Idylls is a lively account of dacha life and how Russians experience this deeply rooted tradition of the summer cottage amid the changing cultural, economic, and political landscape of postsocialist Russia. Simultaneously beloved and reviled, dachas wield a power that makes owning and caring for them an essential part of life. In this book, Melissa L. Caldwell captures the dacha’s abiding traditions and demonstrates why Russians insist that…
Growing the nation. Fresh food, organic capitalism, and community organizing in Russian gardens
Foods of Association
Placing Faith in Development
The development-oriented work of Moscow's religious communities is examined in this article, with a focus on how a core group of faith organizations present themselves as offering an alternative vision of intervention and improvement that seeks to protect Russian citizens from what proponents suggest are the shortcomings of previous democratizing and civil society ventures. Staff and supporters within Moscow's faith-based assistance sphere conten…
Digestive Politics in Russia
Accounts of the cultural aspects of food consumption have conventionally privileged acts of production and consumption rather than acts of disposal. In the case of eating, attention has been given to ingestion as the moment when cultural values are consumed and expressed, so that choice and taste preferences are presented as part of the act of consuming. As a result, the sensory dimensions of taste are located at the palate: flavor, aroma, textur…
Living Faithfully in an Unjust World
This book examines what it means to be a compassionate, caring person in a place like Russia, which has become a country of stark income inequalities and political restrictions.Through vivid ethnography about a thriving Moscow-based network of religious and secular charitable service providers, the book explores how assistance providers’ efforts to “do the right thing” for their communities produce new modes of social justice and civic engagement…
Taste and embodied practice
This chapter discusses some ways in which &s;taste&s; and its relationship to embodied practice have been variously recognized and theorized in accounts of consumption. It shows how scholars have thought about taste and embodied practice, particularly in terms of studies of material culture and consumption. The chapter considers what attention to taste and embodied practice illuminates about human nature and social phenomena more broadly. State g…
Ethical Eating in the Postsocialist and Socialist World
Current discussions of the ethics around alternative food movements--concepts such as "local," "organic," and "fair trade"--tend to focus on their growth and significance in advanced capitalist societies. In this groundbreaking contribution to critical food studies, editors Yuson Jung, Jakob A. Klein, and Melissa L. Caldwell explore what constitutes "ethical food" and "ethical eating" in socialist and formerly socialist societies. With essays by …
Sacred Spaces and Civic Action
This article examines several key sites where Russia's civic and religious bodies intersect in pursuit of social justice goals. Based on ethnographic fieldwork among religious communities and social justice organizations in Moscow, the article focuses on the physical, social, and legal spaces where church and state, secular and sacred, civic and personal intersect and the consequences of these intersections for how Russians understand new configu…
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