Title Informal nationalism after communism : the everyday construction of post-socialist identities / edited by Abel Polese, Oleksandra Seliverstova, Emilia Pawłusz and Jeremy Morris

Published London : I.B. Tauris, 2018 ©2018

Click on the following:
ProQuest Ebook Central

Copies

Description 1 online resource (xvii, 213 pages) : illustrations, maps Series International library of historical studies ; 111 International library of historical studies ; 111. Contents Cover; Author Biography; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Contributors; Introduction The Silent Noise of (Everyday) Identities; Doggy Bags and Post-Soviet Identities; Limp Flags and Noisy Invisible Identities (Post-Socialism and the Everyday); This Book's Approach; Structure of the Book and Main Themes; 1. 'I'm Only Half!' Schooling and Strategies of Belonging Among Adolescents from Minority Ethnic Backgrounds in Russia; Introduction; Schooling in Post-Soviet Russia as an Arena of Competing Nationhood Claims; School Practices of Ethnic Ascription Strategies of Belonging: Portraits of Pupils'I Like to be Taken for a Tatar': Passing as a (Christianised) Tatar; Conclusion; 2. Borders of a Borderland: Experiencing Identity in Moldova Today; Introduction; State-Building and Nation-Building in Moldova; Competing Identity Categories; Nationalising Collective Memory in the Public Spaces; The Stencils of Identity; Transformations of Identity through the Lens of the Everyday; Language, Asymmetrical Power Relations and Everyday Practices; Conclusion 3. Teaching the National through Geography and Nature: Banal Nationalism in Primary Schools in Serbia and CroatiaIntroduction; Methodology; Findings: Textbook Content Analysis; Discussion and Conclusion; 4. Why Nations Sell: Reproduction of Everyday Nationhood through Advertising in Russia and Belarus; Introduction; Nation-Building and Economic Transformations in Russia and Belarus: A Historical Background; Advertising in Russia: Empire, Nation and In Between; Advertising in Belarus: The Struggle for Banality; Conclusion; 5. Money Can't Buy It? Everyday Geopolitics in Post-Soviet Russia IntroductionWhy Prosume Foreign Policy?; Speaking Geopolitics; Framing Geopolitics; Symbolising Geopolitics; Eating Geopolitics; Conclusion; 6. Turbofolk as a Means of Identification: Music Practices as Examples of the National in Everyday Life; Introduction; The Setting for the Birth of Turbofolk; Identification with Turbofolk; Contradictions in Evaluating Turbofolk Music; Impact of Turbofolk Music on its Consumers; Autochthonous Turbofolk as an Illustration of Diasporic Identity; 'Turbofashion', 'Turbostyle'; Conclusion 7. Something Bulgarian for Dinner: Bulgarian Popular Cuisine as a Selling PointIntroduction; What is Food as a National Consumption Practice?; How to Read the Food as Text; The Structure of the Menu: The Sign System; The Words of the National Culinary Discourse; The Twenty-First-Century Image of Bulgarian National Cuisine; 8. Making Modern Mongolians: Gender Roles and Everyday Nation-Building in Contemporary Mongolia; Building a Nation for Mongolians; Nomadism as Practice of Everyday Nation-Building; Forging Ties to the Nation via Religious Practices; Chenggis Khaan Legacies Summary "Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, nation building and identity construction in the post-socialist region have been the subject of extensive academic research. The majority of these studies have taken a 'top-down' approach - focusing on the variety of ways in which governments have sought to define the nascent nation states - and in the process have often oversimplified the complex and overlapping processes at play across the region. Drawing on research on the Balkans, Central Asia, the Caucasus and Eastern Europe, this book focuses instead on the role of non-traditional, non-politicised and non-elite actors in the construction of identity. Across topics as diverse as school textbooks, turbofolk and home decoration, contributors - each an academic with extensive on-the-ground experience - identify and analyse the ways that individuals living across the post-socialist region redefine identity on a daily basis, often by manipulating and adapting state policy. In the process, Nation Building in the Post-Socialist Region demonstrates the necessity of holistic, trans-national and inter-disciplinary approaches to national identity construction rather than studies limited to a single-state territory. This is important reading for all scholars and policymakers working on the post-socialist region."--Bloomsbury Publishing Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-210) and index Notes Print version record Subject Collective memory -- Former communist countries Nationalism. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. Civilization Collective memory SUBJECT Former Yugoslav republics -- Civilization Former communist countries -- Civilization Subject Former communist countries Yugoslavia Form Electronic book Author Polese, Abel, editor LC no. 2019403410 ISBN 9781838608736 1838608737

  Permalink