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Well-mannered aliens brandishing new truths : Putin's "polite green men" and the (non)-occupation of Crimea -- Projecting Russia on the global stage : international broadcasting and recursive nationhood -- A little girl dreams of Kiev : projection as abjection, the invalid nation and Russia's 2017 Eurovision (non)-performance -- Film narrative and cultural diplomacy : the (not so) peculiar cases of Ovsianki and Belyi tigr -- Double agents : Russia's intercultural mediators and the articulation of the global -- Pussy Riot goes West : re-staging the new Gulag for a global audience -- It is nationhood!.

"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 the process by which contemporary social and political practices adopt a media form and follow media-driven logics. In particular, the book emphasizes the logic of the feedback loop or 'recursion', showing how it drives multiple Russian performances of national belonging and nation projection in the digital era. It applies this theory to recent issues, events and scandals that have played out in international arenas ranging from television, through theatre, film, and performance art, to warfare"--

The article addresses the representation of gypsies in Russian television news bulletins and popular drama series over a 15-month period. It seeks first to explain the prominence of the media image of the gypsy relative to the size of the Roma population and second to account for the relationship between fictional and non-fictional modes of representation. Situating itself within the broader field of post-Soviet Russian identity studies and applying qualitative tools differentiated according to the arena of analysis, it looks at questions of lexicon, voice and viewpoint in relation to news and issues of characterization, fictional space and plot with respect to drama. The two apparatuses are linked through a shared emphasis on narrative, and in particular on its dual orientation toward the exceptional (what makes a story worth telling and capable of embracing "difference") and the typical (what enables it to represent and project "identity"). In its central argument it maps this dual "identity/difference" dynamic onto the gypsy's liminal status as both "of the self" and "of the other", and its mediatory function: the ability to serve as a proxy for ethno-cultural difference more generally, and to negotiate the tensions between the cultural and racial aspects of ethnicity.

A boundary is not that at which something stops, but…that from which something begins its presencing.—Martin Heidegger,Poetry, Language, ThoughtPersonhood is a living contradiction—between private and social, form and content, finite and infinite, freedom and fate. Personhood would be lost if the boundaries and the forms that contain it were to disappear, if it were to dissolve into cosmic infinity. But personhood would not be the image and likeness of God if it did not accommodate within itself infinite content.—Nikolai Berdiaev,Filosofiia svobodnogo dukhaThe aesthetic…is the first stirrings …of the body's long, inarticulate rebellion against the tyranny of the theoretical.—Terry Eagleton,The Ideology of the Aesthetic

It is often the mark of a writer's sophistication and innovative powers that certain of his/her key works present difficulties in the area of genre. Pushkin's Evgenii Onegin, Dostoevskii's Diary of a Writer, Tolstoi's War and Peace and Belyi's Kotik Letaev serve as instructive examples from Russian literature. To this list one could certainly add the late writings of Vasilii Rozanov. The genre of Rozanov's trilogy Solitaria, Fallen Leaves and Apocalypse of Our Times is notoriously resistant to definition and generates a host of competing alternatives. Should they be treated as collections of fable-like anecdotes, as autobiographies, confessions, fictions or as something that combines elements from all of these genres? Each answer has validity.

This book examines television culture in Russia under the Putin government. It demonstrates how broadcasters have been enlisted in a national identity project to install a latter-day version of imperial pride in Russian military achievements, over which Putin's government exerts a form of remote control

This book examines television culture in Russia under the Putin government. It demonstrates how broadcasters have been enlisted in a national identity project to install a latter-day version of imperial pride in Russian military achievements, over which Putin's government exerts a form of remote control.