Makarychev / Yatsyk Celebrating Borderlands in a Wider Europe

Nations and Identities in Ukraine, Georgia and Estonia
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-3-8452-5316-9
Verlag: Nomos
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 149 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 227 mm

This book addresses Estonian, Ukrainian and Georgian identities which have developed against the backdrop of Russia’s neo-imperialist policies and the EU’s normative projection of power. With the decreasing explanatory value of the “post-Soviet” frame, the authors propose the concept of borderlands in order to bring together a group of countries located at the point where different cultural, religious, ethnic and civilisational trends and systems intersect. The authors argue that for borderland countries nation-building encompasses meaning-making strategies aimed at self-identification, consolidation and integration, along with strategies of adjusting to practical tools and mechanisms of governance generated and shared by Europe. Performative cultural and sports events, such as the 2012 UEFA European Championship in Lviv, the Song and Dance Festival in Tallinn in 2014 and the 2015 Youth Olympic Games in Tbilisi, are at the centre of each of these case studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Makarychev, Andrey

Yatsyk, Alexandra

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Cover;1
2; Introduction;12
3; Chapter I Borderlands: meanings and techniques;20
3.1; Boundaries, Borderlands, and Neighbourhoods;23
3.2; The Great Divide: Europe vs. Russia;30
3.3; Meaning–making at borderlands;37
3.4; Techniques of governance;41
3.4.1; Post-politics on the move;41
3.4.2; Conceptualizing governmentality;46
4; Chapter II Ukraine’s West as “Another Europe”;52
4.1; Lviv: Playing with Multiple Meanings;52
4.2; External Impacts;63
4.2.1; Germany;64
4.2.2; Poland;67
4.2.3; Governmentality: Agendas for Change;69
4.2.4; De–bordering and new spaces of inclusion;72
4.2.5; GIZ in Lviv;72
4.2.6; UEFA;74
4.3; EURO 2012 Seen from a Perspective of the Ukraine Crisis;77
5; Chapter III Singing together: the case of Estonian Songs Festivals;86
5.1; Suguvõsa kokkutulek: Estonia’s “singing nationalism” in a global(ized) world;91
5.2; ‘Our strangers’: Russians beyond the celebration;95
5.3; Alternative spaces of the unrooted ‘tradition’: the case of the Slavic Wreath;101
6; Chapter IV Georgia: Europe Started Here?;108
6.1; Georgia’s European (In)vocation;108
6.2; The EU: Europeanization at a distance;110
6.3; The Russia Factor;111
6.4; Europe through Sport?;115
7; Conclusion Can the Story of Europe be Told from its Eastern Borderlands?;126
8; Bibliography;132