Elena Khlinovskaya Rockhill
Biographic Data
| ID | 672848 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elena Khlinovskaya Rockhill |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elena Khlinovskaya |
| FAMILY NAME | Rockhill |
| SIGNATURE | ROCKHILL E K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Interdisciplinary scholar with backgrounds in biology and anthropology. As an Arctic anthropologist, she studies indigenous and non-indigenous peoples of the Russian North, specialising in kinship, family, state, migration and care. She is an Institute Associate at the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, and an Affiliated Lecturer at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology in Moscow. She is the author of Lost to the State: Family Discontinuity, Social Orphanhood and... |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6357-5272 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Lost to the State
Childhood held a special place in Soviet society: seen as the key to a better future, children were imagined as the only privileged class. Therefore, the rapid emergence in post-Soviet Russia of the vast numbers of vulnerable ‘social orphans’, or children who have living relatives but grow up in residential care institutions, caught the public by surprise, leading to discussions of the role and place of childhood in the new society. Based on an i…
Where Is the Nomadic Family? Rigid Laws and Flexible Tundra Life in North-East Siberia
We start from a puzzle: in remote Arctic regions of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), why are many reindeer-herding families excluded from official 'nomadic family' benefits? The Republic's Nomadic Family Law is supposed to support indigenous minorities leading a 'traditional' lifestyle, but it often fails. We identify three models of family structure at work, each matching the fluidity of the physical environment and productive process more or less …
In vitro fertilization, genetic imaginations, and values among the Siberian Sakha
This paper explores the recent burst of genetic imaginations among the Sakha people of northeastern Siberia as it is reflected in their discourse on genofond (gene pool). We argue that this discourse, which claims the genetic uniqueness of the Sakha, has not only facilitated their ethnic solidarity but has also contextualized the hyper-biologisation of their parenthood whereby they view the use of new reproductive technologies, such as in vitro f…
On the continued involvement of the state in the socio-economic viability of the post-Soviet Kolyma, Russian Far North. Part 1
In the 20 th and 21 st centuries the northern development project of the Russian Northeast was, and still is, a state bounded high modernist project. Clear aims of northern development and targeted use of certain tools, such as designing programmes to increase, or more recently, to reduce the population by relocating a 'surplus' population point at the social engineering character of these initiatives, then and now. Yet neither the Russian govern…
Urbanisation and the Shifting of Boundaries
In this article, we outline some of the most salient features of kinship transformations amongst the Sakha of northeastern Siberia, including the creation of new social and symbolic boundaries between individual subgroups and members of extended family groups leading to de-traditionalisation of Sakha kinship practices. We specifically focus on the shifts in people’s views on personhood and children. One of the key mechanisms of maintaining kinshi…
Family on the Edge
This paper addresses the notion and category of neblagopoluchnaia family in Yakutsk, Russian Federation, analyzing the ways in which this category is constructed and reproduced. Although this term is not defined in any jural and legal documents, it is widely applied in practice. The authors follow the process of marginalization of families through their increasing symbolic and geographic remoteness. These families constitute the category of nebla…
On Interdisciplinarity and Models of Knowledge Production
The six UK Genetics Knowledge Parks (GKPs) were shaped and governed by two frameworks: a 'need' to harness 'new genetics' and the relations of accountability as seen in the context of entrepre neurial government. The remit of the Cambridge GKP (CGKP) was to develop public health genetics by building on the concepts of partner ship and interdisciplinarity. In the course of its work, the CGKP empha sized the virtues of 'change management', seen as …
Social orphans and the neblagopoluchnaia family
Due to profound socioeconomic and political changes in post-Soviet Russia, the number of families viewed as neblagopoluchnye and 'unfit' for bringing up their children is increasing, and so is the number of children without parental care. To protect children from the harmful influence of their 'unfit' parents and to ensure a better future for them, state agents remove children from their families placing them in residential care institutions. Yet…
Social orphans and the neblagopoluchnaia family
Due to profound socioeconomic and political changes in post-Soviet Russia, the number of families viewed as neblagopoluchnye and 'unfit' for bringing up their children is increasing, and so is the number of children without parental care. To protect children from the harmful influence of their 'unfit' parents and to ensure a better future for them, state agents remove children from their families placing them in residential care institutions. Yet…
Where Is the Nomadic Family? Rigid Laws and Flexible Tundra Life in North-East Siberia
We start from a puzzle: in remote Arctic regions of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), why are many reindeer-herding families excluded from official 'nomadic family' benefits? The Republic's Nomadic Family Law is supposed to support indigenous minorities leading a 'traditional' lifestyle, but it often fails. We identify three models of family structure at work, each matching the fluidity of the physical environment and productive process more or less …
On the continued involvement of the state in the socio-economic viability of the post-Soviet Kolyma, Russian Far North. Part 1
In the 20 th and 21 st centuries the northern development project of the Russian Northeast was, and still is, a state bounded high modernist project. Clear aims of northern development and targeted use of certain tools, such as designing programmes to increase, or more recently, to reduce the population by relocating a 'surplus' population point at the social engineering character of these initiatives, then and now. Yet neither the Russian govern…
Social orphans and the neblagopoluchnaia family
Due to profound socioeconomic and political changes in post-Soviet Russia, the number of families viewed as neblagopoluchnye and 'unfit' for bringing up their children is increasing, and so is the number of children without parental care. To protect children from the harmful influence of their 'unfit' parents and to ensure a better future for them, state agents remove children from their families placing them in residential care institutions. Yet…
On Interdisciplinarity and Models of Knowledge Production
The six UK Genetics Knowledge Parks (GKPs) were shaped and governed by two frameworks: a 'need' to harness 'new genetics' and the relations of accountability as seen in the context of entrepre neurial government. The remit of the Cambridge GKP (CGKP) was to develop public health genetics by building on the concepts of partner ship and interdisciplinarity. In the course of its work, the CGKP empha sized the virtues of 'change management', seen as …
Family on the Edge
This paper addresses the notion and category of neblagopoluchnaia family in Yakutsk, Russian Federation, analyzing the ways in which this category is constructed and reproduced. Although this term is not defined in any jural and legal documents, it is widely applied in practice. The authors follow the process of marginalization of families through their increasing symbolic and geographic remoteness. These families constitute the category of nebla…
Urbanisation and the Shifting of Boundaries
In this article, we outline some of the most salient features of kinship transformations amongst the Sakha of northeastern Siberia, including the creation of new social and symbolic boundaries between individual subgroups and members of extended family groups leading to de-traditionalisation of Sakha kinship practices. We specifically focus on the shifts in people’s views on personhood and children. One of the key mechanisms of maintaining kinshi…
In vitro fertilization, genetic imaginations, and values among the Siberian Sakha
This paper explores the recent burst of genetic imaginations among the Sakha people of northeastern Siberia as it is reflected in their discourse on genofond (gene pool). We argue that this discourse, which claims the genetic uniqueness of the Sakha, has not only facilitated their ethnic solidarity but has also contextualized the hyper-biologisation of their parenthood whereby they view the use of new reproductive technologies, such as in vitro f…
On the continued involvement of the state in the socio-economic viability of the post-Soviet Kolyma, Russian Far North. Part 1
In the 20 th and 21 st centuries the northern development project of the Russian Northeast was, and still is, a state bounded high modernist project. Clear aims of northern development and targeted use of certain tools, such as designing programmes to increase, or more recently, to reduce the population by relocating a 'surplus' population point at the social engineering character of these initiatives, then and now. Yet neither the Russian govern…
Lost to the State
Childhood held a special place in Soviet society: seen as the key to a better future, children were imagined as the only privileged class. Therefore, the rapid emergence in post-Soviet Russia of the vast numbers of vulnerable ‘social orphans’, or children who have living relatives but grow up in residential care institutions, caught the public by surprise, leading to discussions of the role and place of childhood in the new society. Based on an i…
Where Is the Nomadic Family? Rigid Laws and Flexible Tundra Life in North-East Siberia
We start from a puzzle: in remote Arctic regions of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), why are many reindeer-herding families excluded from official 'nomadic family' benefits? The Republic's Nomadic Family Law is supposed to support indigenous minorities leading a 'traditional' lifestyle, but it often fails. We identify three models of family structure at work, each matching the fluidity of the physical environment and productive process more or less …
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