Contesting Eurasia
Politics, Culture and Place
Will be published approx. on 30. January 2021
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-1-78453-822-4 (ISBN)
Description
Eurasia is emerging as a region of economic growth and opportunity, cultural change and tension, of isolation and invitation. Among the issues driving this international resurgence are ethnic and territorial conflict, identity politics, lucrative trade and communications deals, energy abundance, environmental change and a resurgent Russia. This complex landscape of imposed and unresolved borders, is a space of competing narratives, with scenarios for the region's future ranging from a unified economic space extending from the Black Sea to the Bering Strait, to a space where indigenous peoples practice self-determination and imagine home across state boundaries. These competing and contradictory visions of Eurasia create challenges for states, indigenous groups, NGOs and corporate interests alike, each wishing to guide the region's future. Contesting Eurasia explores the competing narratives for the region's future and evaluates the options for reproducing, modifying, challenging or disregarding state power in the modern world.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
20 black and white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-78453-822-4 (9781784538224)
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Person
Jeremy Towson is Chair of the Russian, central Eurasian and East European Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers. He is a former Chief of Mission with a major international NGO and a former Embassy Policy Specialist to the US Embassy in Azerbaijan. He is the co-author (with Phil Steinberg and Hannes Gerhardt) of Contesting the Arctic (I.B.Tauris, 2015; pbk 2017).
Content
Part I: The Status Quo?
Status Quo
Jeremy Tasch, Associate Professor of Geography & Environmental Planning, Towson University, USA.
2. An alternative EU
Juha Molari, columnist, Russia Today
Part II: Unbounding the Region
3. Movement and the ties that bond
Henryk Alff, Research Associate, Centre for Development Studies, Free University of Berlin
4. Movement and the ties that bind
Kristopher White, Associate Professor of Geography, KIMEP University, Almaty, Kazakhstan
5. Movement and the ties that unbind
Alexander C. Diener, Associate Professor of Geography, University of Kansas
6. Breaking the myths that bind
Mikhail Blinnikov, Professor of geography, St Cloud University, USA & Natalia Mamnova, Researcher, International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University, Rotterdam
Part III: Re-imagining the Region
7. Consuming Eurasia, Mining imaginaries
Marissa Smith, Department of Anthropology, Princeton University
8. Consuming Eurasia, imagining home
Vera Kuklina, Researcher, V.B. Sochava Institute of geography, Russian Academy of Science
9. Consuming Eurasia, imagining the other
Ksenija Vidmar-Horvat, Professor of Sociology of Culture, University of Ljubljana
10. Back to the future: East and West
Hans-Joachim Burkner
Conclusion
Jeremy Tasch
Bibliography
Index
Status Quo
Jeremy Tasch, Associate Professor of Geography & Environmental Planning, Towson University, USA.
2. An alternative EU
Juha Molari, columnist, Russia Today
Part II: Unbounding the Region
3. Movement and the ties that bond
Henryk Alff, Research Associate, Centre for Development Studies, Free University of Berlin
4. Movement and the ties that bind
Kristopher White, Associate Professor of Geography, KIMEP University, Almaty, Kazakhstan
5. Movement and the ties that unbind
Alexander C. Diener, Associate Professor of Geography, University of Kansas
6. Breaking the myths that bind
Mikhail Blinnikov, Professor of geography, St Cloud University, USA & Natalia Mamnova, Researcher, International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University, Rotterdam
Part III: Re-imagining the Region
7. Consuming Eurasia, Mining imaginaries
Marissa Smith, Department of Anthropology, Princeton University
8. Consuming Eurasia, imagining home
Vera Kuklina, Researcher, V.B. Sochava Institute of geography, Russian Academy of Science
9. Consuming Eurasia, imagining the other
Ksenija Vidmar-Horvat, Professor of Sociology of Culture, University of Ljubljana
10. Back to the future: East and West
Hans-Joachim Burkner
Conclusion
Jeremy Tasch
Bibliography
Index