FORUM FOR ANTHROPOLOGY AND CULTURE
Editors’ Foreword
Questions from the Editorial Board
Albert Baiburin, Yuri Berezkin, Andrey Gromov, Kira Kovalenko, Evgenii Sokolov, Natalia Kovalyova, Anna Moskvitina (Siim), Ivan Shirobokov, Nadezhda Stanulevich, Ilya Utekhin, ChatGPT-3.5
Afterword to the Discussion
Olga Boitsova
On Leviathan’s Tail: Anthropological Studies of Bureaucracy and Bureaucrats
Aleksandra Zakharova, Aleksandra Martynenko
Universal Rules and Situations of Discretion: How Street-Level Bureaucrats Calculate Suffering
Nikita Mishakov
The Bureaucratic Routes and Documentary Temporalities of the Conscript’s Questionnaire at a Human Rights Organisation
Nikita Shevchenko
Moral Cartography: Classifications of Village Residents in the Everyday Life of Rural Bureaucrats
Aleksandra Zakharova
From the Phone Call to the Card: In Search of Discretion among the Operators of the Emergency Number 112
Dmitriy Serebrennikov
A Review of Alexandr Davydov, Pavel Abramov, Etnografiya tufty: kto i kak pishet zakaznye raboty v Rossii [The Ethnography of a Scam: Who Writes Commissioned Essays in Russia, and How They Do It]. Moscow: Social Research Support Fund “Khamovniki”; Common Place, 2021, 176 pp.
Anna Gerasimova
A Review of Mirjam Galley, Building Communism and Policing Deviance in the Soviet Union: Residential Childcare, 1958–91. Philadelphia: Routledge, 2020, 240 pp.
Anna Altukhova