Inna Leykin
Visiting Lecturer,
Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communication
The Open University of Israel
Israel
Biography
2013 Ph.D. Department of Anthropology, Brown University Dissertation: ‘Population Prescriptions’: State, Morality, and Population Politics in Contemporary Russia 2008 M.A. Department Anthropology, Brown University Thesis: ‘Don’t Swear Off of Beggary and Jail’: Privatization, Regional Policies and the Economy of Favors in Putin’s Russia 2003 B.A. Sociology and Anthropology, Tel Aviv University
Research Interest
Political Anthropology, Intellectual Expertise Anthropology of Science and Policy Socialism, Postsocialism, Population Politics Ethnography of the State, Therapeutic discourse Kinship Anthropology of the Gift, Anthropological Demography
Publications
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“Politics, Morality, and Demography in Post-Soviet Russia,†Pickpook, Student Newspaper, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem 45, June 2013. [In Hebrew]
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“‘Population Prescriptions:’ Pronatalism and the Fear of Underpopulation in Post-Soviet Russia,†The Somatoshpere: Science, Medicine, and Anthropology Blog, December 26, 2011.
