Soil and Soul

How Russia's Minority Communities Create Meaning and Identity

Inbunden, Engelska, 2027

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By landmass, Russia is the world's largest country, due mainly to centuries of military expansion and colonization. As a result, it contains people of many ethnicities, nationalities, and religions—and yet social minorities have been mostly disregarded or repressed by governmental policy and ignored in scholarship. This volume explores how ethnically non-Russian peoples develop and sustain their local and ethnic identities through embodied relations with nonhuman elements such as land, animals, and sacred sites rather than through discourse or state institutions. In fact, these local efforts challenge the Kremlin's "master narrative" of Russian cultural superiority. These nonhuman entities persist undeniably as an ever-present source of meaning and identity creation in spite of an autocratic centralized state. Using decolonial, anthropological, environmental, sociological, linguistic, and geographic case studies, this volume reframes minority agency as ecosocial practice embedded in local ecologies and postimperial power asymmetries.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2027-01-05
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor208
FörlagUniversity of Wisconsin Press
ISBN9780299358501

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Yana Hashamova is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Slavic Studies and a professor of theater, film, and media arts. She holds an affiliate professorship in comparative studies; women's, gender, and sexuality studies; and the Mershon Center for International Security Studies at The Ohio State University. She is the author of Screening Trafficking: Prudent and Perilous? and a coeditor of Cultures of Mobility and Alterity: Crossing the Balkans and Beyond, among others.Gulnaz Sharafutdinova is a professor of Russian politics and the director of the King's Russia Institute at King's College London. She is the author of The Afterlife of the "Soviet Man": Rethinking Homo Sovieticus, The Red Mirror: Putin's Leadership and Russia's Insecure Identity, and Political Consequences of Crony Capitalism Inside Russia, and a coeditor of Soviet Society in the Era of Late Socialism, 1964–1985.

List of Illustrations Introduction Yana Hashamova and Gulnaz Sharafutdinova 1. From a Demonic Animal to a Political Ally: Native Cattle as a Site of Ethnonationalist Projections Among Sakha Zoia Tarasova 2. The Throbbing Heart of the Grassland: Turning the Shihan Hills into Sacred Sites for the Bashkir People Jesko Schmoller 3. Kalmyks in Southwest Russia: Geography, Sacred Sites, and Memory in Shaping Ethnic Identity Baasanjav Terbish 4. Bringing Bodies Back to the Soil: Contemporary Vaynakh Repatriation Practices Kristina Kovalskaya 5. Exploring Human–Nonhuman Relations in Vepsian Ritualized Speech Laura Siragusa 6. Mapping Socio-Ecological Interactions in Russia's Hinterland: Grounding the Study of Diversity Megan Dixon Conclusion Acknowledgments Contributors Index