Laura Tourtellotte
Biographic Data
| ID | 6185706 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Tourtellotte |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Tourtellotte |
| SIGNATURE | TOURTELLOTTE L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
In Search of Shelter: Precarity, Protest, and Pronatalism among Laboring Women in Kazakhstan
In 2019, near Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, five children perished in a house fire while their parents were away at night shift jobs. This widely-reported tragedy brought to light conflicting imperatives and highlighted the precarity of gendered productive and reproductive labor across Kazakhstan. This highly-publicized incident ignited a conflagration of protests by “mothers with many children” ( mnogodetnye mamy , kopbala analar ), the official desig…
Introduction to the Special Issue Precarious Labor, Capitalist Transformation, and the State: Insights from Central Asia
The end of the Soviet Union marked a turning point in the radical reconfiguration of labor relations in the post-Soviet world, including in Central Asia. The effects of this “unmaking” of Soviet working life—to paraphrase Humphrey 1 —were articulated in new capital-labor relations that led to a heightened sense of financial and existential insecurity across large sections of Central Asian societies. Thirty years on, mass labor precarization in th…
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In Search of Shelter: Precarity, Protest, and Pronatalism among Laboring Women in Kazakhstan
In 2019, near Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, five children perished in a house fire while their parents were away at night shift jobs. This widely-reported tragedy brought to light conflicting imperatives and highlighted the precarity of gendered productive and reproductive labor across Kazakhstan. This highly-publicized incident ignited a conflagration of protests by “mothers with many children” ( mnogodetnye mamy , kopbala analar ), the official desig…
Introduction to the Special Issue Precarious Labor, Capitalist Transformation, and the State: Insights from Central Asia
The end of the Soviet Union marked a turning point in the radical reconfiguration of labor relations in the post-Soviet world, including in Central Asia. The effects of this “unmaking” of Soviet working life—to paraphrase Humphrey 1 —were articulated in new capital-labor relations that led to a heightened sense of financial and existential insecurity across large sections of Central Asian societies. Thirty years on, mass labor precarization in th…
Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Central asia (1 works) · Development economics (1 works) · Economics (1 works) · Economy (1 works) · Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism (1 works) · Existentialism (1 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (1 works) · Gender Studies (1 works)