Cultural Forms of Protest in Russia

Cultural Forms of Protest in Russia

by Beumers, Birgit

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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Illustrations -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Note on transliteration -- Introduction: Genres and genders of protest in Russia's petrostate -- Notes -- References -- Part I Origins and traditions of protest -- 1 Fathers, sons, and grandsons: Generational changes and political trajectory of Russia, 1989-2012 -- From generation to generation: wine, vinegar, and cocktail -- The sixtiers: the la…

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  • Full title :Cultural Forms of Protest in Russia

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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Illustrations -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Note on transliteration -- Introduction: Genres and genders of protest in Russia's petrostate -- Notes -- References -- Part I Origins and traditions of protest -- 1 Fathers, sons, and grandsons: Generational changes and political trajectory of Russia, 1989-2012 -- From generation to generation: wine, vinegar, and cocktail -- The sixtiers: the last true believers -- The seventiers: politics without illusions -- The post-Soviet generation: a new turn? -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- Note on Transliteration -- References -- 2 Dissidents reloaded?: Anti-Putin activists and the Soviet legacy -- 'Old' and 'new' dissenters -- Displaying protests -- Dissent of the dominant, dissent of the dominated -- References -- 3 Why 'two Russias' are less than 'United Russia': Cultural distinctions and political similarities ... -- The intelligentsia and the state: a tradition of 'stylistic divergences' -- The protest of the 'successful and well-fed' -- 'Sha Pu Na Na' vs. 'Bo Ro Di No' -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgement -- Notes -- References -- 4 Are copycats subversive?: Strategy-31, the Russian Runs, the Immortal Regiment, and the transformative potential ... -- Bottom-up and top-down movements in Russia -- Copycat movements -- Case selection and sources -- A subversive defence of the Constitution? Strategy-31 -- Subversive temperance? The Russian Runs -- Subversive war commemoration? The Immortal Regiment -- Conclusion -- Note and acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- Interviews -- 5 Political consumerism in Russia after 2011 -- Introduction -- What is political consumerism? -- State, political consumerism, and nation-building in Russia -- Consumer nationalism and cultural producers in Russia

Good buy, glamour: welcome, patriotic fashion -- Lifestyles and consumer citizenship -- Political consumerism and popular support -- In lieu of a conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 6 Even the toys are demanding free elections: Humour and the politics of creative protest in Russia -- Introduction -- Nano-meetings in the snow -- Setting the toy protest into context: the use of humour in Russian protests -- What does fun have to do with political protest? -- Conclusions -- References -- Part II Artistic and performative forms of protest -- 7 Biopolitics, believers, bodily protests: The case of Pussy Riot -- Introduction -- Turning the optics of biopolitical conservatism -- Corporeal protest -- Vulnerable orthodoxy -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 8 Hysteria or enjoyment?: Recent Russian actionism -- Snatching Chicken -- Pavlenskii's Law -- Conclusion -- Author's note -- Notes -- References -- 9 Bleep and ***: Speechless protest -- Mat: the language of protest, or language as protest -- The silence of protest -- Protest on screen, documentary style -- Protest on display: fictional images -- Conclusion: performing protest -- Notes -- References -- 10 On the (im)possibility of a third opinion -- The Central Golden Object -- Room One: Tõnismäe culture -- Room Two: kinetics of power -- Room Three: violence -- Room Four: action -- Notes -- References -- 11 Performing poetry and protest in the age of digital reproduction -- Avant-garde post- -- Performing the Russian poet: after Prigov -- Embodiment and poetic bodies -- Poets, activists, and digital media -- The limits of digital emancipation -- Notes -- References -- 12 When satire does not subvert: Citizen Poet as nostalgia for Soviet dissidence -- Putiniana and the pleasure of recognition -- Political leadership vs. dissenting cultural leadership

The nostalgic subjectivity of post-Soviet liberalism -- Citizen Poet and kul'tura -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2017

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Taylor and Francis
  • Place of Publication:Florence
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2017

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 Online-Ressource (263 Seiten)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781317352631, 1317352637, 9781138956650, 1138956651
  • oclc:on1021121636

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