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[Commlist] new book: Projecting Russia in a Mediatized World: Recursive Nationhood

Thu Jan 20 11:55:57 GMT 2022





Stephen Hutchings is pleased to announce the publication of a new book, which presents a new perspective on how Russia projects itself to the world. Distancing itself from familiar, agency-driven International Relations accounts that focus on what ‘the Kremlin’ is up to and why, it argues for the need to pay attention to deeper, trans-state processes over which the Kremlin exerts much less control. Especially important in this context is mediatization, defined as the process by which contemporary social and political practices adopt a media form and follow media-driven logics. In particular, the book emphasises the logic of the feedback loop or ‘recursion’, showing how it drives multiple Russian performances of national belonging and nation projection in the digital era. It applies this theory to recent issues, events, and scandals that have played out in international arenas ranging from television, through theatre, film, and performance art, to warfare.

The book, published by Routledge, is called Projecting Russia in a Mediatized World: Recursive Nationhood. More details are available at:

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9780429293061/projecting-russia-mediatized-world-stephen-hutchings

The table of contents is as follows:

Introduction

Chapter 1
Well-mannered aliens brandishing new truths
Putin's ‘Polite Green Men’ and the (non)-occupation of Crimea

Chapter 2
Projecting Russia on the global stage
International broadcasting and recursive nationhood

Chapter 3
A little girl dreams of Kiev
Projection as abjection, the invalid nation, and Russia's 2017 Eurovision (non)-performance

Chapter 4
Film narrative and cultural diplomacy: the (not so) peculiar cases of Ovsianki and Belyi Tigr

Chapter 5
Double agents: Russia's intercultural mediators and the articulation of the global

Chapter 6|
Pussy Riot goes West: Re-staging the new Gulag for a global audience

In place of a conclusion: It is nationhood!


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