Date: 2018
Type: Book
Cultural forms of protest in Russia
Abingdon ; New York : Routledge, 2018, Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series
BEUMERS, Birgit, ETKIND, Alexander, GUROVA, Olga, TUROMA, Sanna (editor/s), BEUMERS, Birgit, ETKIND, Alexander, GUROVA, Olga, TUROMA, Sanna, Cultural forms of protest in Russia, Abingdon ; New York : Routledge, 2018, Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series
- https://hdl.handle.net/1814/67554
Retrieved from Cadmus, EUI Research Repository
Alongside the Arab Spring, the 'Occupy' anti-capitalist movements in the West, and the events on the Maidan in Kiev, Russia has had its own protest movements, notably the political protests of 2011–12. As elsewhere in the world, these protests had unlikely origins, in Russia’s case spearheaded by the 'creative class'. This book examines the protest movements in Russia. It discusses the artistic traditions from which the movements arose; explores the media, including the internet, film, novels, and fashion, through which the protesters have expressed themselves; and considers the outcome of the movements, including the new forms of nationalism, intellectualism, and feminism put forward. Overall, the book shows how the Russian protest movements have suggested new directions for Russian – and global – politics.
Table of Contents:
-- Introduction
-- Part I: Origins and traditions of protest
-- 1. Fathers, sons, and grandsons: generational changes and political trajectory of Russia, 1989–2012
-- 2.Dissidents reloaded? Anti-Putin activists and the Soviet legacy
-- 3.Why ‘two Russias’ are less than ‘United Russia’: cultural distinctions and political similarities: dialectics of defeat
-- 4.Are copycats subversive? Strategy-31, the Russian Runs, the Immortal Regiment and the transformative potential of non-hierarchical movements
-- 5.Political consumerism in Russia after 2011
-- 6.Even the toys are demanding free elections: humour and the politics of creative protest in Russia
-- Part II: Artistic and performative forms of protest
-- 7.Biopolitics, believers, bodily protests: the case of Pussy Riot
-- 8.Hysteria or enjoyment? Recent Russian actionism
-- 9.Bleep and ***: speechless protest
-- 10.On the (im)possibility of a third opinion
-- 11.Performing poetry and protest in the age of digital reproduction
-- 12.When satire does not subvert: Citizen Poet as nostalgia
-- Index
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/67554
Full-text via DOI: 10.4324/9781315665610
ISBN: 9781138956650
Publisher: Routledge
