Dale Pesmen's scientific contributions

... State oppression falls into several phases (Fondahl, 1998; Vakhtin, 1994; Vitebsky, 1991 Vitebsky, , 1992 Vitebsky, , 2002) which include the persecution and killing of shamans (Souslov, 1931) and of indigenous leaders, poets, and scholars (Balzer, 1991) in the 1930s–1940s; the confiscation of private herds of reindeer; coercive " sedentarization " and deportation of the residents of smaller villages into larger concentrations far from the land and natural resources on which they depended in the 1950s; placing indigenous children in harsh and distant boarding schools, turning reindeer herders into shift workers and categorizing them as a permanent underclass in the 1960s–1970s (Vitebsky, 1992Vitebsky, , 2005 Vitebsky & Wolfe, 2001). The postperestroika period (late 1980s to early 1990s) saw a plunge from an initial euphoria to the period of the greatest economic deprivation, with widespread nonpayment of wages and collapse of the social welfare system (Gray, 2005; Kerttula, 2000; Rethman, 2001; Vitebsky, 2000 Vitebsky, , 2002). This triggered a high rate of violent death, alcohol abuse, and suicide throughout the region. ...

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Attaining khinem: Challenges, coping strategies and resilience among Eveny adolescents in northeastern Siberia

... Perceived deprivation is even higher in cases, where the person has weak family ties or, worse, lost touch with any family surroundings. In the case of East European societies in general, there is a higher expectation of reciprocity attributed to support amongst friends (Burawoy and Verdery, 1999;Pesmen, 2000;Caldwell, 2004). Poverty is often defined in East European societies, besides the primary meaning in terms of material and multidimensional deprivation (exclusion from basic resources), as a failure or disruption of the social support network (Pesmen 2000;Caldwell, 2004;Hö jdestrand, 2009). ...

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Homelessness in a Post-Soviet City: Weak Social Support and Institutional Alienation