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Projecting Russia in a Mediatized World: Recursive Nationhood book cover

1st Edition

Projecting Russia in a Mediatized World Recursive Nationhood

By Stephen Hutchings Copyright 2022
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge
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This book presents a new perspective on how Russia projects itself to the world. Distancing itself from familiar, agency-driven International Relations accounts that focus on what ‘the Kremlin’ is up to and why, it argues for the need to pay attention to deeper, trans-state processes over which the Kremlin exerts much less control. Especially important in this context is mediatization, defined as... Read more

Introduction 1. Well-Mannered Aliens Brandishing New Truths: Putin’s ‘Polite Green Men’ and the (Non)-Occupation of Crimea 2. Projecting Russia on the Global Stage: International Broadcasting and Recursive Nationhood 3. A Little Girl Dreams of Kiev: Projection as Abjection, the Invalid Nation and Russia’s 2017 Eurovision (Non)-Performance 4. Film Narrative and Cultural Diplomacy: The (Not So) Peculiar Cases of Ovsianki and Belyi tigr 5. Double Agents: Russia’s Intercultural Mediators and the Articulation of the Global 6. Pussy Riot goes West: Re-staging the New Gulag for a Global Audience Conclusion

Biography

Stephen Hutchings is Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Manchester, UK.

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