Russia against modernity

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dc.contributor.authorETKIND, Alexander
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-15T16:55:53Z
dc.date.available2024-03-15T16:55:53Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.descriptionPublished online: 19 June 2023en
dc.description.abstractPutin's war is a "special operation" against modernity. The invasion has been directed against Ukraine, but the war has a broader target: the modern world of climate awareness, energy transition and digital labor. By trading oil and gas, promoting Trump and Brexit, spreading corruption, boosting inequality and homophobia, subsidizing far-right movements and destroying Ukraine, Putin's clique aims at suppressing the ongoing transformation of modern societies. Alexander Etkind distinguishes between Russia's pompous, weaponized paleomodernity, on the one hand, and the lean, decentralized gaiamodernity of the Anthropocene, on the other. Putin's clique has used various strategies - from climate denialism and electoral interference to war and genocide - to resist and subvert modernity. Working on political, cultural and even demographic levels, social mechanisms convert the vicious energy of the oil curse into all-out aggression. Dissecting these mechanisms, Etkind's brief but rigorous analyses of social structuration, cultural dynamics and family models reveal the agency that drives the Russian war against modernity. This short, sharp critique of the Russian regime combines political economy, social history and demography to predict the decolonizing and defederating of Russia.en
dc.description.tableofcontents-- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Modernity in the Age of Anthropocene -- Chapter 2. Petrostate -- Chapter 3. Parasitic governance -- Chapter 4. The So-Called Elite -- Chapter 5. The Public Sphere --- Chapter 6. Gender and Degeneration -- Chapter 7. Putin’s War -- Chapter 8. Defederating Russia -- End notes -- Indexen
dc.identifier.citationCambridge : Polity Press, 2023en
dc.identifier.isbn9781509556588
dc.identifier.isbn9781509556571
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/76707
dc.language.isoenen
dc.orcid.putcode1814/78915:155526806
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dc.publisherPolity Pressen
dc.titleRussia against modernityen
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