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Eurasia 2.0

Russian Geopolitics in the Age of New Media

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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This book discusses the return of geopolitical ideas and doctrines to the post-Soviet space with special focus on the new phenomenon of digital geopolitics, which is an overarching term for different political practices including dissemination of geopolitical ideas online, using the internet by political figures and diplomats for legitimation and outreach activity, and viral spread of geopolitical memes. Different chapters explore the new possibilities and threats associated with this digitalization of geopolitical knowledge and practice. Our authors consider new spatial sensibilities and new identities of global as well as local Selves, the emergence of which is facilitated by the internet. They explore recent reconfigurations of the traditional imperial conundrum of center versus periphery. Developing Manuel Castells’ argument that social activism in the digital era is organized around cultural values, the essays discuss new geopolitical ideologies which aim to reinforce Russia’s spiritual sovereignty as a unique civilization, while at the same time seeking to rebrand Russia as a greater soft power by utilizing the Russian-speaking diaspora or employing traditionalist rhetoric. Great Power imagery, enemy-making, and visual mappings of Russia’s future territorial expansion are traditional means for the manipulation of imperial pleasures and geopolitical fears. In the age of new media, however, this is being done with greater subtlety by mobilizing the grassroots, contracting private information channels, and de-politicizing geopolitics. Given the political events of recent years, it is logical that the Ukrainian crisis should provide the thematic backdrop for most of the authors.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2016-03-17
Mått161 x 239 x 32 mm
Vikt753 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieRussian, Eurasian, and Eastern European Politics
Antal sidor374
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781498521413

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Chapter 1. Saara Ratilainen, Russian Digital Lifestyle Media and the Construction of Global SelvesChapter 2. Brigit Beumers, Crossing Borders/Road Movies in Russia: The Road to Nowhere? Destinations in Recent Russian Cinema Chapter 3. Galina Zvereva, Digital Storytelling on YouTube: The Geo-Political Factor in Russian Vernacular Regional IdentitiesChapter 4. Andrei Tsygankov, Uses of Eurasia: the Kremlin, the Eurasian Union, and the Izborsky Club Chapter 5. Marlène Laruelle, Digital Geopolitics Encapsulated. Geidar Dzhemal between Islamism, Occult Fascism and Eurasianism Chapter 6. Sirke Mäkinen, Russia as an alternative model: Geopolitical Representations and Russia’s Public Diplomacy—the Case of RossotrudnichestvoChapter 7. Hanna Smith, Putin’s Third Term and Russia as a Great PowerChapter 8. Fabian Linde, Future Empire: State-Sponsored Eurasian Identity Promotion Among Russian YouthChapter 9. Per-Arne Bodin, Russian Geopolitical Discourse: On Pseudomorphosis, Phantom Pains and SimulacraCh

The Eurasia 2.0: Russian Geopolitics in the Age of New Media volume masterfully demonstrates that certain recurrent assumptions of geopolitics continue to be very relevant today, particularly when the issues of power and influence touch upon the questions of ideology, national character, and identity. Mikhail Suslov, Mark Bassin and all contributors to this excellent collection of essays go a long way towards uncovering the uneven and multifaceted character of changes in Russia and the politics of identity in Eurasia.... Overall, the book is an important, timely and relevant effort to understand the re-emerging concept of geopolitics in the age of new media. The amount of nuanced research in this volume is noteworthy.... Eurasia 2.0 is a valuable scholarly contribution, which provides a much-needed indication of the processes and challenges in Eurasia, and which will serve as a foundation for future projects.