Everyday belonging in the post-Soviet borderlands
| Titel: | Everyday belonging in the post-Soviet borderlands : Russian speakers in Estonia and Kazakhstan / Alina Jašina-Schäfer |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Lanham; Boulder; New York; London : Lexington Books, [2021] |
| Umfang: | xiv, 175 Seiten : Illustrationen, 2 Karten |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Hochschulschrift: | Dissertation, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, 2019 |
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| ISBN: | 9781793631381 |
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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.
