Beumers / Etkind / Gurova Cultural Forms of Protest in Russia

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-317-35263-1
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 262 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series

Alongside the Arab Spring, the "Occupy" anti-capitalist movements in the West, and the events on the Maidan in Kyiv, Russia has had its own protest movements, notably the political protests of 2011-12. As elsewhere in the world, these protests had unlikely origins, in Russia’s case spearheaded by the "creative class". This book examines the protest movements in Russia. It discusses the artistic traditions from which the movements arose, explores the media, including the internet, film, novels and fashion, through which the protesters have expressed themselves, and considers the outcome of the movements, including the new forms of nationalism, intellectualism and feminism put forward. Overall, the book shows how the Russian protest movements have suggested new directions for Russian – and global – politics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Beumers, Birgit

Etkind, Alexander

Gurova, Olga

Turoma, Sanna

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction, Alexander Etkind

Part I: Origins and Traditions of Protest

1. Fathers, Sons, and Grandsons: Generational Changes and Political Trajectory of Russia, 1989–2012, Vladimir Gel'man

2. Dissidents Reloaded? Anti-Putin Activists and the Soviet Legacy, Valentina Parisi

3. Why ‘Two Russias’ are Less than ‘United Russia’. Cultural Distinctions and Political Similarities: Dialectics of Defeat, Ilya Kalinin

4. Are Copycats Subversive? Strategy-31, the Russian Runs, the Immortal Regiment and the Transformative Potential of Non-Hierarchical Movements, Mischa Gabowitsch

5. Political Consumerism in Russia after 2011, Olga Gurova

6. Even the Toys are Demanding Free Elections: Humour and the Politics of Creative Protest in Russia, Jennifer G. Mathers

Part II: Artistic and Performative Forms of Protest

7. Biopolitics, Believers, Bodily Protests: The Case of Pussy Riot, Alexandra Yatsyk

8. Hysteria or Enjoyment? Recent Russian Actionism, Jonathan Brooks Platt

9. Bleep and ***: Speechless Protest, Birgit Beumers

10. On the (Im)Possibility of a Third Opinion, Kristina Norman

11. Performing Poetry and Protest in the Age of Digital Reproduction, Marijeta Bozovic

Über Autor(innen)

Birgit Beumers is Professor of Film Studies at Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK.

Alexander Etkind is Professor of the History of Russia-Europe Relations at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.

Olga Gurova is a Research Fellow in the Department of Social Research at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

Sanna Turoma is a Senior Research Fellow at the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland.