"Good individualism"? Psychology, ethics, and neoliberalism in postsocialist Russia

American Ethnologist

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 804-818

  Matza, Tomas ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethics; Governmentality; Neoliberalism; Postsocialism; Psychology; Subjectivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868314868     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: 15481425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2012.01396.x     Document Type: Article

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