The Formation of Tunka National Park

Revitalization and Autonomy in Late Socialism

Bibliographic Data

ID4964037
AuthorsKatherine Metzo (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, corresponding author)
Year2009
Volume68
Issue1
Pages50-69
Publication date2009-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSlavic Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0037-6779 • E-ISSN: 2325-7784
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0037677900000085
OpenAlexW772910617
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited30

In this article, Katherine Metzo examines the creation of Tunka National Park in Russia's Lake Baikal region. Formed in the last days of the Soviet Union, the park represents the efforts of local indigenous elite to manipulate state policies on conservation to return control over natural resources to the local population. Metzo sees the formation of the park as part of a cultural revitalization movement through its ties to a broader Buriat national-cultural movement that emerged in late socialism. Movement leaders werevnye, in Alexei Yurchak's sense of the word, as they promoted their personal as well as the national-cultural agenda through the inbetween spaces created in the discussion of nature conservation

Archaeology · Autonomy · Elite · Ethnology · Geography · Indigenous · National park · Natural resource · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Population · Socialism · Sociology · State (computer science · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Ecology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Law

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