4-0255 STATE PRACTICES AND LOCAL TRACES: TIDEMARKS AND LEGACIES OF REGULATORY REGIMES IN POST/LATE-SOCIALIST COUNTRIES

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Friday, November 18, 2011: 08:00-11:45

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Students, Practicing and Applied Anthropologists

Organizers: Min Zhang (Harvard University) and Yuson Jung (Wayne State University)

Chairs: Julie Hemment (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) and Min Zhang (Harvard University)

Discussants: Andrew B Kipnis (Australia National University) and Yuson Jung (Wayne State University)

08:00

Technologies of Kindness In the Provinces: The Promotion of State-Run Youth Voluntarism In Russia

Julie Hemment (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

08:15

Citizenship Contests At the Nexus of State and Market: Signing Deaf People In Southern Việt Nam and the Revitalization of Socialism

Audrey C Cooper (American University)

08:30

Propiska Regime In Post Soviet Space; Regulating Mobility and Residence

Rano Turaeva-Hoehne (Max Planck Institution)

08:45

Getting Your Students to Perform Well: Evaluation, Management, and Person-Making In a Rural Middle School In Northwest China

Min Zhang (Harvard University)

09:00

What’s a Mother to Do? the Politics of Motherhood In Postsocialist Poland

Joanna Z. Mishtal (University of Central Florida)

09:15

Discussant

Andrew B Kipnis (Australia National University)

09:30

Discussion

09:45

Break

10:00

They Can’t Handle the Truth: Quality Data, Transparency, and Professional Responsibility Among Chinese Public Health Professionals After Sars

Katherine A Mason (University of Pennsylvania)

10:15

Transparency, Health Care and the State In Post-Socialist Lithuania

Rima Praspaliauskiene (UC Davis)

10:30

Volume, Volume, Volume! Quality Control and "the Audit" In the Vietnamese Coffee Industry

Sarah G Grant (UC Riverside)

10:45

Making Things Visible: Reworking Regulatory Interventions After China’s Melamine Scandal

Megan Tracy (James Madison University)

11:00

Chaos, or Traces of Soy:Individualism, Conspiracy Stories, and the Meaning of Food Standards and Regulations in Bulgaria

Lora Koycheva (Northwestern University)

11:15

Discussant

Yuson Jung (Wayne State University)

11:30

Discussion

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