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This book examines the Russophone communities in peripheral cities adjacent to the Russian borders in Estonia and Kazakhstan. The research adopts a cross-disciplinary, space-sensitive approach that focuses comparatively on individual memories, narratives, and performances. Based on multi-layered ethnographic examples, this book reconstructs belonging as a complex dialectical relationship between ‘inclusion’ and ‘exclusion.’ This relationship, it is argued, manifests itself through a continuous spiral of boundary construction, appropriation, and transgression among different versions of Estonianness and Kazakhness, Europeanness and Cosmopolitanness, as well as Russianness.



Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Cities of Enduring Dislocation

Chapter 3: Transgressing Exclusion

Chapter 4: Landscapes of Belonging

Chapter 5: Relationship with the External Space of Russia

Chapter 6: Defining Rodina for Russian Speakers

Chapter 7: Conclusion

Everyday Belonging in the Post-Soviet

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      Publisher: Lexington Books
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 28/04/2021
      ISBN13: 9781793631381, 978-1793631381
      ISBN10: 1793631387

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      This book examines the Russophone communities in peripheral cities adjacent to the Russian borders in Estonia and Kazakhstan. The research adopts a cross-disciplinary, space-sensitive approach that focuses comparatively on individual memories, narratives, and performances. Based on multi-layered ethnographic examples, this book reconstructs belonging as a complex dialectical relationship between ‘inclusion’ and ‘exclusion.’ This relationship, it is argued, manifests itself through a continuous spiral of boundary construction, appropriation, and transgression among different versions of Estonianness and Kazakhness, Europeanness and Cosmopolitanness, as well as Russianness.



      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1: Introduction

      Chapter 2: Cities of Enduring Dislocation

      Chapter 3: Transgressing Exclusion

      Chapter 4: Landscapes of Belonging

      Chapter 5: Relationship with the External Space of Russia

      Chapter 6: Defining Rodina for Russian Speakers

      Chapter 7: Conclusion

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