Everyday Belonging In The Post Soviet Borderlands
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Author |
: Alina Jašina-Schäfer |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 191 |
Release |
: 2021-04-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781793631398 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1793631395 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis Everyday Belonging in the Post-Soviet Borderlands by : Alina Jašina-Schäfer
Everyday Belonging in the Post-Soviet Borderlands examines the Russophone communities in peripheral cities adjacent to the Russian borders in Estonia and Kazakhstan. The research adopts a cross-disciplinary, space-sensitive approach that focuses comparatively on individual memories, narratives, and performances. Based on ethnographic examples, this book reconstructs belonging as a complex dialectical relationship between “inclusion” and “exclusion.” This relationship, it is argued, manifests itself through a continuous spiral of boundary construction, appropriation, and transgression among different versions of Estonianness and Kazakhness, Europeanness and Cosmopolitanness, as well as Russianness.
Author |
: Graham Smith |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 312 |
Release |
: 1998-09-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521599687 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521599689 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis Nation-building in the Post-Soviet Borderlands by : Graham Smith
This book examines how national and ethnic identities are being reforged in the post-Soviet borderland states.
Author |
: Jade McGlynn |
Publisher |
: Springer Nature |
Total Pages |
: 222 |
Release |
: 2022-10-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783030999148 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3030999149 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis Researching Memory and Identity in Russia and Eastern Europe by : Jade McGlynn
This book offers a collection of innovative methodological approaches to Memory Studies in Russia and Eastern Europe. Providing insights into the relationship between memory and identity, the twelve chapters provide multidisciplinary analysis of how history is used to reinforce, remould, and reinvent national and group identities. This analysis includes a strong emphasis on interrogating the role of the researcher and the impact of methodology, exploring the field’s most pressing challenges, such as the subjectivity of remembrance, reception versus production of discourse, and the inclusion of marginal perspectives. By focussing on countries in which the past is highly politicised, including Serbia, Ukraine, Poland, Russia and the Baltic States, the volume also analyses the diverse – and often conflicting – ways in which historical narratives emerge from these states’ efforts to create new pasts that shape their respective visions of the future, with pressing ramifications across this region and beyond.
Author |
: Amos Yong |
Publisher |
: Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 213 |
Release |
: 2023-09-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781666720884 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1666720887 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis Uncovering the Pearl by : Amos Yong
Asia is by far the largest continent in the world. The global expansion of the church, which emanated from the Middle East (as explored in the first book in the series) moved along various routes to take root in Asia proper. Christianity in Asia is extraordinarily diverse, with very ancient forms of the faith dating to the time of the apostles. The western church will be enlightened by the dynamic, multi-pronged Asian story of Christianity. Asian Christianity is also distinct due to the numerous non-traditional, house, or cell movements found throughout the region. The diversity of Christianity in Asia makes Christians in this region critical for the future of global Christianity.
Author |
: Abel Polese |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 303 |
Release |
: 2017-07-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351735438 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1351735438 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis Identity and Nation Building in Everyday Post-Socialist Life by : Abel Polese
This book explores the function of the “everyday” in the formation, consolidation and performance of national, sub-national and local identities in the former socialist region. Based on extensive original research including fieldwork, the book demonstrates how the study of everyday and mundane practices is a meaningful and useful way of understanding the socio-political processes of identity formation both at the top and bottom level of a state. The book covers a wide range of countries including the Baltic States, Ukraine, Russia, the Caucasus and Central Asia, and considers “everyday” banal practices, including those related to consumption, kinship, embodiment, mobility, music, and the use of objects and artifacts. Overall, the book draws on, and contributes to, theory; and shows how the process of nation-building is not just undertaken by formal actors, such as the state, its institutions and political elites.
Author |
: Julie McBrien |
Publisher |
: University of Pittsburgh Press |
Total Pages |
: 347 |
Release |
: 2017-06-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780822983057 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0822983052 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis From Belonging to Belief by : Julie McBrien
From Belonging to Belief presents a nuanced ethnographic study of Islam and secularism in post-Soviet Central Asia, as seen from the small town of Bazaar-Korgon in southern Kyrgyzstan. Opening with the juxtaposition of a statue of Lenin and a mosque in the town square, Julie McBrien proceeds to peel away the multiple layers that have shaped the return of public Islam in the region. She explores belief and nonbelief, varying practices of Islam, discourses of extremism, and the role of the state, to elucidate the everyday experiences of Bazaar-Korgonians. McBrien shows how Islam is explored, lived, and debated in both conventional and novel sites: a Soviet-era cleric who continues to hold great influence; popular television programs; religious instruction at wedding parties; clothing; celebrations; and others. Through ethnographic research, McBrien reveals how moving toward Islam is not a simple step but rather a deliberate and personal journey of experimentation, testing, and knowledge acquisition. Moreover she argues that religion is not always a matter of belief—sometimes it is essentially about belonging. From Belonging to Belief offers an important corrective to studies that focus only on the pious turns among Muslims in Central Asia, and instead shows the complex process of evolving religion in a region that has experienced both Soviet atheism and post-Soviet secularism, each of which has profoundly formed the way Muslims interpret and live Islam.
Author |
: Tiina Sotkasiira |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 174 |
Release |
: 2016-04-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317060468 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317060466 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis Russian Borderlands in Change by : Tiina Sotkasiira
While moving across borders has been made easier for some in Russia in recent years, for others, physical as well as socio-cultural borders are proving to be more and more difficult to cross. Tackling the differences between the ways in which official discourses construct borders and the ways people who live there experience them in their everyday lives, this book uses innovative theoretical approaches and empirical work with young North Caucasian migrants to explore issues of identity, citizenship, exclusion and belonging. The Chechen war, terrorist attacks and confrontations between Caucasian migrants and local residents have served as touchstones for intense public debates about who belongs in Russian society and who does not. Young people of North Caucasian origin are experiencing the effects of such debates as they learn to negotiate and maintain their identities in an environment in which they are defined as a threat to national security whilst simultaneously being pressured to align with core civic values of the state. This book reflects on the notion that the cultural borders, which define civic liberties and people’s right to belong, are increasingly being defined within society, and not by the external borders of states.
Author |
: Ammon Cheskin |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 226 |
Release |
: 2021-05-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000330809 |
ISBN-13 |
: 100033080X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Russian-speaking Populations in the Post-Soviet Space by : Ammon Cheskin
In the wake of Russia’s annexation of Crimea, this volume examines the relationship Russia has with its so-called ‘compatriots abroad’. Based on research from Belarus, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Latvia and Ukraine, the authors examine complex relationships between these individuals, their home states, and the Russian Federation. Russia stands out globally as a leading sponsor of kin-state nationalism, vociferously claiming to defend the interests of its so-called diaspora, especially the tens of millions of ethnic Russians and Russian speakers who reside in the countries that were once part of the Soviet Union. However, this volume shifts focus away from the assertive diaspora politics of the Russian state, towards the actual groups of Russian speakers in the post-Soviet space themselves. In a series of empirically grounded studies, the authors examine complex relationships between ‘Russians’, their home-states and the Russian Federation. Using evidence from Belarus, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, and Ukraine, the findings demonstrate multifaceted levels of belonging and estrangement with spaces associated with Russia and the new, independent states in which Russian speakers live. By focusing on language, media, politics, identity and quotidian interactions, this collection provides a wealth of material to help understand contemporary kin-state policies and their impact on group identities and behaviour. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Europe-Asia Studies.
Author |
: Tatiana Zhurzhenko |
Publisher |
: BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages |
: 336 |
Release |
: 2010-07-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783838200422 |
ISBN-13 |
: 383820042X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis Borderlands into Bordered Lands. Geopolitics of Identity in Post-Soviet Ukraine by : Tatiana Zhurzhenko
Since 1991, post-Soviet political elites in Ukraine, Russia and Belarus have been engaged in nation- as well as state-building. They have tried to strengthen territorial sovereignty and national security, re-shape collective identities and re-narrate national histories. Former Soviet republics have become new neighbours, partners and competitors searching for geopolitical identity in the “new Eastern Europe,” i.e. the countries left outside the enlarged EU. Old paradigms such as “Eurasia” or “East Slavic civilisation” have been re-invented and politically instrumentalized in the international relations and domestic politics of these countries. At the same time, these old concepts and myths have been contested and challenged by pro-Western elites. The main subject of this book is the construction of post-Soviet borders and their political, social and cultural implications. It focuses on the exemplary case of the Ukrainian-Russian border, approaching it as a social construct and a discursive phenomenon. The book shows how the symbolic meanings of and narratives on this border contribute to national identity formation and shape the images of the neighbouring countries as “the Other” thereby shedding new light on the role of border disputes between Ukraine and Russia in bilateral relations, in EU neighbourhood politics and in domestic political conflicts. The study also addresses “border making” on the regional level, focusing on the cross-border cooperation between Kharkiv and Belgorod and on the dilemmas of a Euroregion “in absence of Europe.” Finally, it reflects the everyday experiences of the residents of near-border villages and shows how national and local identities are performed at, and transformed by, the new border.
Author |
: Tone Bringa |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 270 |
Release |
: 2016-11-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781137583093 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1137583096 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis Eurasian Borderlands by : Tone Bringa
This book examines changing and emerging state and state-like borders in the post-Soviet space in the decades following state collapse. This book argues border-making is not only about states’ physical marking of territory and claims to sovereignty but also about people’s spatial practices over time. In order to illustrate how borders come about and are maintained, this book looks at border communities at internal, open administrative borders and borders in the making, as well as physically demarcated international state borders. This book also pays attention to both the spatial and temporal aspects of borders and the interplay between boundaries and borders over time and thus identifies some of the processes at play as space is territorialized in Eurasia in the aftermath of state collapse.