Geopolitical Imagination Ideology and Utopia in Post-Soviet Russia.
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Berlin :
Ibidem Verlag,
2020.
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Foreword
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Studying Russian geopolitical imagination
- Renaissance of geopolitics
- Conspiracy, dialogue and political participation
- Part I Geopolitical Culture: Approaches to Understanding
- 1 The Logic of Recognition, Confrontation and Exceptionalism in Russian Geopolitical Culture
- Russia's "perpetual geopolitics"
- Struggle for recognition and Russian geopolitical imagination
- "Large space" and isolationism
- The stigma of barbarism
- Conclusions.
- 2 Creating Usable Spaces in Education: Textbooks on Geopolitics
- Introduction
- Geopolitics Redux: Studying, Teaching, Selling
- Geopolitics: Ideology or pragmatism?
- "Laws of geopolitics"
- Securitization in textbooks
- Biopolitics and the rhetoric of "energy"
- Spatialization of history and the anti-colonial rhetoric
- Conclusions
- 3 "Civilizationism" in Russian Geopolitical Culture
- Introduction
- The mainstream political debates, "sovereign democracy" and the ideology of "Edinaia Rossiia"
- ROC and civilizational discourses.
- The logic of fragility and security in civilizational discourses
- Conclusions
- 4 Geopolitical Imagination and Russian Imperial Science Fiction
- Introduction
- The Big Other of post-Soviet SF
- Geopolitics of civilizations
- The imperial sublime in Russian SF
- Biology and energy
- Engaging with Strugatsky brothers
- Orthodox SF
- Conclusions
- Part II Imaginary Places
- 5 "Holy Russia"
- Introduction
- "Holy Russia" project
- "Holy Russia" as a civilization
- Mapping Kirill's pastoral visits
- 6 Continent Eurasia in Russian Geopolitical Imagination
- Introduction.
- Defining Eurasian continentalism
- "Naturalness"
- Hyperbole of development
- Hyperbole of autonomy
- Hyperbole of authenticity
- Conclusions
- 7 Eurasian Symphony: Geopolitical Imagination and Alternative History
- Introduction
- Emplotment and enjoyment in alternative history
- Irony in Eurasian Symphony
- East and West in Eurasian Symphony
- Conclusions
- 8 "Novorossiia" in Russian Geopolitical Culture
- Introduction
- Methodological note: The brand "Novorossiia" and its ideological meaning
- Where is Novorossiia? Territorial indeterminacy
- Ideology of Novorossiia.
- Novorossiia in online debates
- Conclusions
- Afterword: Amendments to the Constitution and Geopolitical Visions, 2020
- Index.