Geopolitics and Culture

Sanna Turoma is professor of Russian language and culture at Tampere University.Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus is lecturer in the Department of Finnish, Fenno-Ugrian, and Scandinavian Studies at University of Helsinki.Saara Ratilainen is lecturer in Russian language and culture at Tampere University.

• Introduction: Decolonizing Popular Geopolitics? Narrating Experiences Beyond the Anglophone World Saara Ratilainen, Sanna Turoma, and Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus Part I: Contesting Global HierarchiesChapter 1: Streaming Chernobyl: Mediatized Battles over the Geopolitics of an Ecological Disaster Sanna Turoma and Mika PerkiömäkiChapter 2: A Double-Edged Sword? Nationalist Blockbusters of China and Russia Tatu LaukkanenChapter 3: The East Will Rise Again: Gone with the Wind in the USSR and Russia Michael DennerPart II Margins, Mobility, and BelongingChapter 4: Everyday Geopolitics of Uzbek Migrants in Russia and Their Left-behind Families in Uzbekistan Sherzod Eraliev and Rustamjon UrinboyevChapter 5: Writing the Difference: Geopolitical Imaginaries in Polish Travel Blogging Kinga Polynczuk-Alenius Chapter 6: Geopolitical Marginality in the Age of Globalization: Blogger Mariia Dubrovskaia’s Travels across Eurasian Spaces Saara RatilainenChapter 7: Alternative Geopolitics of Urban Space: The “Attractive Sadness” of Soviet Housing Projects Mikhail SuslovChapter 8: Geopolitics of “Eastern” Bodies in European Cultural Heritage Sigrid Kaasik-KrogerusPart III: Identities and Bodies DisplacedChapter 9: Between the Russian and American Empires: The Sense of Place of an Arctic Peninsula in Yuri Rytkheu’s Novel The Chukchi Bible Eeva Kuikka Chapter 10: Narrating the Geopolitics of Displacement: Marina Palei’s Khutor and the Scale of the Body Marja SorvariChapter 11: Deterritorialization of Literary Identity: Exile and New Aesthetic Strategies in Russian-language Literatures Outside the Russian Federation Ilya KukulinAbout the Contributors