"Inspired by geopolitics and culture, this volume studies the link between geopolitical narratives, global and regional hierarchies, and popular cultural production in the Eastern European context"--
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.
Inspired by geopolitics and culture, this volume studies the link between geopolitical narratives, global and regional hierarchies, and popular cultural production in the Eastern European context.
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Inspired by geopolitics and culture, this volume studies the link between geopolitical narratives, global and regional hierarchies, and popular cultural production in the Eastern European context.
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 Dubrovskaias 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 Rytkheus Novel The Chukchi Bible Eeva Kuikka
Chapter 10: Narrating the Geopolitics of Displacement: Marina Paleis 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
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.
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