This coming Thursday, Dr. Alexia Bloch of UBC’s Department of Anthropology presents a talk:
Post-Soviet Mistresses and the Turkish State: Negotiating Intimacy, Kinship, and Labor Migration in a Time of Transnationalism
Thursday, February 28, from 11:30-1:00 in ANSO 134
Dr. Bloch’s research focuses around dynamics of power, historical consciousness, and the anthropology of gender. Her current research concerns emerging capitalism and the transformation of gender relations, with an ethnographic focus on women migrants moving between centres of global capital and areas of the former Soviet Union. Her recent monograph publications include: