Geopolitics and Culture: Narrating Eastern European and Eurasian Worlds [Hardcover]

Inspired by popular, feminist, subaltern, and ecocritical geopolitics,Geopolitics and Culture: Narrating Eastern European and Eurasian Worldspresents new research of culture in the Eastern European context. This volume highlights the symbolic production of power, which, although located outside political institutions, engenders geopolitical boundaries and defines cultural margins. Analyzing multilingual materials such as blockbuster films, digital visuals, blogs and discussion forums, print fiction and TV series, museum exhibitions, and everyday cultural practice, this book argues for the importance of studying the links between geopolitical narratives, global and regional hierarchies, and popular cultural production. The contributors advance a decolonizing methodology, which challenges the cultural and geopolitical hierarchies inside Eastern Europe and Eurasia while also casting a critical eye on the geopolitical hierarchies of global Anglophone media cultures.Inspired by geopolitics and culture, this volume studies the link between geopolitical narratives, global and regional hierarchies, and popular cultural production in the Eastern European context.

Sanna Turomais professor of Russian language and culture at Tampere University.

Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerusis lecturer in the Department of Finnish, Fenno-Ugrian, and Scandinavian Studies at University of Helsinki.

Saara Ratilainenis lecturer in Russian language and culture at Tampere University.

Introduction: Decolonizing Popular Geopolitics? Narrating Experiences Beyond the Anglophone WorldSaara Ratilainen, Sanna Turoma, and Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus

Part I: Contesting Global Hierarchies

Chapter 1: Streaming Chernobyl: Mediatized Battles over the Geopolitics of an Ecological DisasterSanna Turoma and Mika Perki?m?ki
Chapter 2: A Double-Edged Sword? Nationalist Blockbusters of China and RussiaTatu Laukkanen
Chapter 3: The East Will Ril³l