Cultural Forms of Protest in Russia
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 201112. As elsewhere in the world, these protests had unlikely origins, in Russias 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.
Birgit Beumers is Professor of Film Studies at Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK.
Alexander Etkind is Professor of the History of RussiaEurope Relations at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy.
Olga Gurova is a Research Fellow in the Department of Social Research at the University of Helsinki, Finland.
Sanna Turoma is a Senior Research Fellow at the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland.
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Edited by Birgit Beumers, Alexander Etkind, Olga Gurova, and Sanna Turoma
Cultural Forms of Protest in Russia
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Names: Beumers, Birgit, editor. Title: Cultural forms of protest in Russia / edited by Birgit Beumers, Alexander Etkind, Olga Gurova, and Sanna Turoma. Description: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2018. | Series: Routledge contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe series; 76 | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2017007691 | ISBN 9781138956650 (hardback) | ISBN 9781315665610 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Protest movementsRussia (Federation)History. | Political participationRussia (Federation)History. | Russia (Federation)Civilization. | Russia (Federation)Politics and government1991 Classification: LCC HN530.2.A8 C85 2018 | DDC 303.48/40947dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017007691
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Contents
ALEXANDER ETKIND
Part I
Origins and traditions of protest
VLADIMIR GEL'MAN
VALENTINA PARISI
ILYA KALININ
MISCHA GABOWITSCH
OLGA GUROVA
JENNIFER G. MATHERS
Part II
Artistic and performative forms of protest
ALEXANDRA YATSYK
JONATHAN BROOKS PLATT
BIRGIT BEUMERS
KRISTINA NORMAN
MARIJETA BOZOVIC
SANNA TUROMA
Birgit Beumers is Professor of Film Studies at the Aberystwyth University. She holds a DPhil from St Antonys College, Oxford, and has previously taught in the Russian Department at Bristol University. She specializes in contemporary Russian culture and has published on cinema and theatre. Her publications include A History of Russian Cinema (2009), Performing Violence (with Mark Lipovetsky, 2009), and Aleksandr Sokurov: Russian Ark (2016); she has edited A Companion to Russian Cinema (2016) and is editor-in-chief of the online quarterly KinoKultura and of the journal Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema.
Marijeta Bozovic is Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, affiliated with Film and Media Studies and Womens, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University. A specialist in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Russian and Eastern European cultures with broad comparative interests, she is the author of Nabokovs Canon: From Onegin to Ada (2016) and the co-editor (with Matthew Miller) of Watersheds: Poetics and Politics of the Danube River (2016) and (with Brian Boyd) of Nabokov Upside Down (2017). She is currently working on her second monograph, Avant-Garde Post : Radical Poetics After the Soviet Union. Bozovic is the co-editor of the journal Russian Literature, the co-curator of the Poetry after Language colloquy for Stanford Universitys ARCADE digital salon, and a contemporary film and literature reviewer for The Los Angeles Review of Books.
Alexander Etkind is Professor at the Department of History and Civilizations of the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. Previously, he taught at the University of Cambridge and the European University at St Petersburg. He has been a visiting professor or researcher at Harvard, New York University, Georgetown, Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin and others. From 2010 to 2013 he directed the European research project Memory at War: Cultural Dynamics in Poland, Russia, and Ukraine. He is also an expert on Russian novel, film, and cultural forms of protest in the twenty-first century. He has published
