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Projecting Russia in a Mediatized World

This book presents a new perspective on how Russia projects itself to the world. Distancing itself from familiar, agency-driven International Relations accounts that focus on what the Kremlin is up to and why, it argues for the need to pay attention to deeper, trans-state processes over which the Kremlin exerts much less control. Especially important in this context is mediatization, defined as the process by which contemporary social and political practices adopt a media form and follow media-driven logics. In particular, the book emphasizes the logic of the feedback loop or recursion, showing how it drives multiple Russian performances of national belonging and nation projection in the digital era. It applies this theory to recent issues, events, and scandals that have played out in international arenas ranging from television, through theatre, film, and performance art, to warfare.

Stephen Hutchings is Professor of Russian Studies at the University of Manchester, UK.

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12Projecting Russia in a Mediatized World

Recursive Nationhood

Stephen Hutchings

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Projecting Russia in a Mediatized World
Recursive Nationhood

Stephen Hutchings

First published 2022

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ISBN: 978-0-367-26390-4 (hbk)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780429293061

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For Donald Hutchings (19292019)

Contents

1. Series Page

1. ii

Guide

1. Series Page

Acknowledgements

There is not the space here to acknowledge the support intellectual and moral of all the many people who contributed to discussions of the ideas and to the working environment that shaped this book. They include my excellent PhD students, along with endlessly patient, if sometimes baffled, family members forced to endure the sudden, dramatic changes of household routine associated with the correspondingly unpredictable bouts of scholarly productivity and inspiration which inevitably accompany writing projects on this scale and countless individuals who offered constructive criticism and vital encouragement at conferences where I presented my work.

More formal thanks are due to the Arts and Humanities Research Council without whose generous funding for two large research projects the book would not have been conceived, let alone written (AHRC reference numbers: AH/N004647/1 and AH/P00508X/1). I am also very grateful to the University of Manchester for granting me valuable sabbatical time (including an award under its competitive Enhanced Research Leave Scheme for Professors).

A very small portion of the material from the Introduction appeared earlier in a co-authored article published by Journalism in July 2020 (doi: can be found in Marille Wijermars and Katja Lehtisaari (eds), Freedom of Expression in Russias New Mediasphere (Abingdon, Routledge: 2020, Chapter 7). I am grateful to the publishers for permission to reuse this material.

As always, I must pay tribute to Peter Sowden, who commissioned my book for Routledge (it has become something of a habit!), and to the Routledge editorial staff who did such a thorough job in improving the manuscript and preparing it for publication.

I owe an enormous debt of gratitude to my good friend and colleague, Vera Tolz, who kindly waded through much of the books first draft and offered some highly astute and helpful suggestions from which later drafts benefitted significantly. The flaws, oversights, and errors that remain are, of course, down solely to me. I am grateful for the valuable comments made by other colleagues at the various forums in which I developed my thinking for the book. They include Catriona Kelly, Philip Bullock, Judith Pallot, Vlad Strukov, Marille Wijermars, Precious Chatterje-Doody, Rhys Crilley, Marie Gillespie, Vitaly Kazakov, Elizabeth Schimpfssl, Galina Miazhevich, Andy Byford, Connor Doak, Vitaly Kazakov, Ilya Yablokov, Lara Ryazanova-Clarke, Peter Rutland, and Julie Hemment.

I dedicate this book to my late father, Donald Hutchings, who passed away just before it was completed, after a long, exemplary life. Having first ignited my interest in Russian culture during my teenage years with a casual reference to one of his favourite Dostoevsky novels (lacking any formal education he was, nonetheless, an avid and perceptive consumer of the literary classics), he came to remark of my own more recent creations that they were becoming a little easier to follow. Sadly, he is no longer around to cast his stern eye over the current book, but he has always been, and will remain, my ideal reader.

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