Title Borderland Russians : identity, narrative, and international relations / Geir Hønneland

Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 174 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Palgrave studies in international relations series Palgrave studies in international relations. Contents Introduction -- Borderlands, identity, narrative -- Russianness, northernness -- Research questions and methodology -- The rest of the book -- The Kola Peninsula : politics, society, international networks -- Populating the Russian north-west -- Murmansk Oblast : population, economy, environment -- Civil-military relations -- Big oil playground? -- International networks -- Russian perceptions of the international collaboration -- Region building, identity politics -- How to be a northerner : distinguishing North from South -- Extract 1: "When I told them how I lived, they went all misty-eyed" -- Extract 2: "If you'd asked me last year, I would have said Murmansk was the best place in the world" -- Extract 3: "The North is like a bottomless pit dragging you down" -- Negotiating stereotypes about north and south -- The vocabulary available--identity as narrative -- Changing borders? -- How to be a Russian : distinguishing East from West -- Extract 1: "Their eyes are always wide open" -- Extract 2: "As nations, they're on the decline" -- Extract 3: "Everything over there predisposes them to equanimity" -- Exploring stereotypes about Scandinavians -- The words to say it--identity as narrative -- New borderlands? -- Living in the northern environment -- Extract 1: "Nothing wrong with the environment here, despite the slight lack of oxygen" -- Extract 2: "Russians in general are a lucky bunch of people. Foosht! Foosht!" -- Extract 3: "I loathe Russia as a state!" -- General views on the state of the environment -- "The Russia tale"--laments evoked by the environment -- Scandinavia and the environment -- Narrative, identity, and international relations -- The key words -- Key narratives, northern identities -- Narrative juggling -- Narrative analysis, international relations -- Borderland Russians, Nordic neighbours Summary Geir H̜nneland discusses some of the big questions in social science: What is identity? How is it narrated by subjects? What is the role of identity and narrative in the study of international relations? The location is the Kola Peninsula, the most heavily militarized area of the world during the Cold War, now set to become Europe's next big oil playground. The author looks at how living close to the border affects people, and whether borderland people are different from other people. Above all, he asks empirical questions about identities in a specific geographic location, discussing what it means to be Russian, what it means to be a northerner and how people in Russia's north-western corner define themselves in relation to their Scandinavian neighbours and their southern relatives. This is a book about the nature of borderland Russians - living in the high north, hailing from the south, with Western neighbours within throwing distance across an increasingly permeable border Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Borderlands -- Russia (Federation) Borderlands -- Scandinavia Ethnicity -- Russia (Federation) Ethnicity -- Scandinavia International relations -- Case studies International relations -- Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe) Rural communities -- Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe) linguistics -- Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe) HISTORY. Politics and Government. Borderlands Ethnic relations Ethnicity International relations Interviews Relations Außenpolitik Minderheit Grenzgebiet Internationale Politik Nationalbewusstsein Regionale Identität Grenzgebiet. Ethnizität. Identität. Internationale Politik. SUBJECT Kola Peninsula (Russia) -- Ethnic relations Kola Peninsula (Russia) -- Biography Interviews -- Russia (Federation) -- Kola Peninsula Russia (Federation) -- Relations -- Scandinavia Scandinavia -- Relations -- Russia (Federation) Subject Russia (Federation) Russia (Federation) -- Kola Peninsula Scandinavia Halbinsel Kola Russland -- Nordwest Kola. Skandinavien. Russland. Genre/Form Biographies Case studies Form Electronic book ISBN 9780230290730 0230290736

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