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

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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