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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “g miazhevich”
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  • Queering Russian Media and Culture

    Edited by Galina Miazhevich ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series
    This book explores how queerness and representations of queerness in media and culture are responding to the shifting socio-political, cultural and legal conditions in post-Soviet Russia, especially in the light of the so-called ‘antigay’ law of 2013. Based on extensive original research, the book outlines developments historically both before and after the fall of the Soviet Union and provides ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Islam, Security and Television News

    by C. Flood, S. Hutchings, G. Miazhevich, H. Nickels ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Focusing on British, French and Russian television news coverage of Islam as a security threat, this book provides the first comparative account of how television broadcasting in different geo- and socio-political environments integrates discourses on Islam into nationally oriented, representational systems. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Contesting Feminism and Media Culture in Contemporary Russia

    From Celebrities to Anti-war Activists

    by Saara Ratilainen, Galina Miazhevich, Daniil Zhaivoronok, Eeva Kuikka ...
    Contesting Feminism and Media Culture in Contemporary Russia: From Celebrities to Anti-war Activists examines how Russian discourses on feminism have been informed by fast-evolving, cross-border, transcultural, and trans-local media flows, which have both diversified and fragmented the spectrum of feminism in the region.The book takes a multidisciplinary approch to Russian feminisms, including an ... Read more

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  • Rethinking Class in Russia

    Edited by Suvi Salmenniemi ...
    Social differentiation, poverty and the emergence of the newly rich occasioned by the collapse of the Soviet Union have seldom been analysed from a class perspective. Rethinking Class in Russia addresses this absence by exploring the manner in which class positions are constructed and negotiated in the new Russia. Bringing an ethnographic and cultural studies approach to the topic, this book ... Read more

    $108.99 CAD

  • Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More

    The Last Soviet Generation

    by Alexei Yurchak, Alexei Yurchak ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    “[An] extraordinary book.”—Brian Eno • “One of the best books about the U.S.S.R. in its late stage.”—Alexei Navalny, from Patriot: A Memoir • “Not just history, but a pleasure to read, a true work of art.”—Slavoj Žižek • “Extraordinary and brilliant.”—Adam Curtis, director of HyperNormalisationA fascinating exploration of “hypernormalization” in a political system that seemed powerful and eternal ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

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  • Memorylands

    Heritage and Identity in Europe Today

    by Sharon Macdonald ...
    Memorylands is an original and fascinating investigation of the nature of heritage, memory and understandings of the past in Europe today. It looks at how Europe has become a ’memoryland’ – littered with material reminders of the past, such as museums, heritage sites and memorials; and at how this ‘memory phenomenon’ is related to the changing nature of identities – especially European, national ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia

    Imaginaries, Discourses and Practices of Social Ordering

    by Philipp Lottholz ...
    Series series Spaces of Peace, Security and Development
    EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Drawing on decolonial perspectives on peace, statehood and development, this illuminating book examines post-liberal statebuilding in Central Asia. It argues that, despite its emancipatory appearance, post-liberal statebuilding is best understood as a set of social ordering mechanisms that lead to new forms of exclusion, marginalization ... Read more

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  • Media and Participation

    A Site of Ideological-Democratic Struggle

    by Nico Carpentier ...
    Media and Participation looks at participation as a structurally unstable concept and as the object of a political-ideological struggle that makes it oscillate between minimalist and maximalist versions. This struggle is analysed in theoretical reflections in five fields (democracy, arts, development, spatial planning and media) and in eight different cases of media practice. These case studies ... Read more

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  • Adaptation of Western Economics by Russian Universities

    Intercultural Travel of an Academic Field

    by Tatiana Suspitsyna ...
    This book examines an intercultural translation of economics as an academic field from Western to post-Soviet university settings. ... Read more

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  • Antinomies of Art and Culture

    Modernity, Postmodernity, Contemporaneity

    by Antonio Negri, Geeta Kapur, Rosalind Krauss ...
    In this landmark collection, world-renowned theorists, artists, critics, and curators explore new ways of conceiving the present and understanding art and culture in relation to it. They revisit from fresh perspectives key issues regarding modernity and postmodernity, including the relationship between art and broader social and political currents, as well as important questions about temporality ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • The Power of the Internet in China

    Citizen Activism Online

    by Guobin Yang ...
    Series series Contemporary Asia in the World
    Since the mid-1990s, the Internet has revolutionized popular expression in China, enabling users to organize, protest, and influence public opinion in unprecedented ways. Guobin Yang's pioneering study maps an innovative range of contentious forms and practices linked to Chinese cyberspace, delineating a nuanced and dynamic image of the Chinese Internet as an arena for creativity, community, ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Baltic Biographies at Historical Crossroads

    Edited by Aili Aarelaid-Tart, Li Bennich-Björkman ...
    Series series Studies in European Sociology
    This book brings together life stories from five generations of Balts, living through the diverse and recurring transformations of the twentieth century: occupations, war, independence, totalitarianism, and democratic rule and market economy. The twentieth century history of the Baltic countries has often been deeply tragic. Lying on the coastline of the Baltic Sea, these rather small but ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD