Geopolitics and Culture
Narrating Eastern European and Eurasian Worlds
Lexington Books (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 15. February 2025
308 pages
978-1-6669-7326-6 (ISBN)
Description
Inspired by popular, feminist, subaltern, and ecocritical geopolitics, Geopolitics and Culture: Narrating Eastern European and Eurasian Worlds presents new research of culture in the Eastern European context. This volume highlights the symbolic production of power, which, although located outside political institutions, engenders geopolitical boundaries and defines cultural margins. Analyzing multilingual materials such as blockbuster films, digital visuals, blogs and discussion forums, print fiction and TV series, museum exhibitions, and everyday cultural practice, this book argues for the importance of studying the links between geopolitical narratives, global and regional hierarchies, and popular cultural production. The contributors advance a decolonizing methodology, which challenges the cultural and geopolitical hierarchies inside Eastern Europe and Eurasia while also casting a critical eye on the geopolitical hierarchies of global Anglophone media cultures.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
17 BW Photos, 3 Tables
ISBN-13
978-1-6669-7326-6 (9781666973266)
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Sanna Turoma | Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus | Saara Ratilainen
Geopolitics and Culture
Narrating Eastern European and Eurasian Worlds
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02/2025
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Persons
Sanna Turoma is professor of Russian language and culture at Tampere University.
Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus is lecturer in the Department of Finnish, Fenno-Ugrian, and Scandinavian Studies at University of Helsinki.
Saara Ratilainen is lecturer in Russian language and culture at Tampere University.
Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus is lecturer in the Department of Finnish, Fenno-Ugrian, and Scandinavian Studies at University of Helsinki.
Saara Ratilainen is lecturer in Russian language and culture at Tampere University.
Content
Introduction: Decolonizing Popular Geopolitics? Narrating Experiences Beyond the Anglophone World Saara Ratilainen, Sanna Turoma, and Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus
Part I: Contesting Global Hierarchies
Chapter 1: Streaming Chernobyl: Mediatized Battles over the Geopolitics of an Ecological Disaster Sanna Turoma and Mika Perkiömäki
Chapter 2: A Double-Edged Sword? Nationalist Blockbusters of China and Russia Tatu Laukkanen
Chapter 3: The East Will Rise Again: Gone with the Wind in the USSR and Russia Michael Denner
Part II Margins, Mobility, and Belonging
Chapter 4: Everyday Geopolitics of Uzbek Migrants in Russia and Their Left-behind Families in Uzbekistan Sherzod Eraliev and Rustamjon Urinboyev
Chapter 5: Writing the Difference: Geopolitical Imaginaries in Polish Travel Blogging Kinga Polynczuk-Alenius
Chapter 6: Geopolitical Marginality in the Age of Globalization: Blogger Mariia Dubrovskaia's Travels across Eurasian Spaces Saara Ratilainen
Chapter 7: Alternative Geopolitics of Urban Space: The "Attractive Sadness" of Soviet Housing Projects Mikhail Suslov
Chapter 8: Geopolitics of "Eastern" Bodies in European Cultural Heritage Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus
Part III: Identities and Bodies Displaced
Chapter 9: Between the Russian and American Empires: The Sense of Place of an Arctic Peninsula in Yuri Rytkheu's Novel The Chukchi Bible Eeva Kuikka
Chapter 10: Narrating the Geopolitics of Displacement: Marina Palei's Khutor and the Scale of the Body Marja Sorvari
Chapter 11: Deterritorialization of Literary Identity: Exile and New Aesthetic Strategies in Russian-language Literatures Outside the Russian Federation Ilya Kukulin
About the Contributors
Part I: Contesting Global Hierarchies
Chapter 1: Streaming Chernobyl: Mediatized Battles over the Geopolitics of an Ecological Disaster Sanna Turoma and Mika Perkiömäki
Chapter 2: A Double-Edged Sword? Nationalist Blockbusters of China and Russia Tatu Laukkanen
Chapter 3: The East Will Rise Again: Gone with the Wind in the USSR and Russia Michael Denner
Part II Margins, Mobility, and Belonging
Chapter 4: Everyday Geopolitics of Uzbek Migrants in Russia and Their Left-behind Families in Uzbekistan Sherzod Eraliev and Rustamjon Urinboyev
Chapter 5: Writing the Difference: Geopolitical Imaginaries in Polish Travel Blogging Kinga Polynczuk-Alenius
Chapter 6: Geopolitical Marginality in the Age of Globalization: Blogger Mariia Dubrovskaia's Travels across Eurasian Spaces Saara Ratilainen
Chapter 7: Alternative Geopolitics of Urban Space: The "Attractive Sadness" of Soviet Housing Projects Mikhail Suslov
Chapter 8: Geopolitics of "Eastern" Bodies in European Cultural Heritage Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus
Part III: Identities and Bodies Displaced
Chapter 9: Between the Russian and American Empires: The Sense of Place of an Arctic Peninsula in Yuri Rytkheu's Novel The Chukchi Bible Eeva Kuikka
Chapter 10: Narrating the Geopolitics of Displacement: Marina Palei's Khutor and the Scale of the Body Marja Sorvari
Chapter 11: Deterritorialization of Literary Identity: Exile and New Aesthetic Strategies in Russian-language Literatures Outside the Russian Federation Ilya Kukulin
About the Contributors
