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Informationen zum Autor Julie Hemment is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts and author of Empowering Women in Russia: Activism, Aid, and NGOs (IUP, 2007). Klappentext Julie Hemment provides a fresh perspective on the controversial nationalist youth projects that have proliferated in Russia in the Putin era, examining them from the point of view of their participants and offering provocative insights into their origins and significance. The pro-Kremlin organization Nashi ("Ours") and other state-run initiatives to mobilize Russian youth have been widely reviled in the West, seen as Soviet throwbacks and evidence of Russia's authoritarian turn. By contrast, Hemment's detailed ethnographic analysis finds an astute global awareness and a paradoxical kinship with the international democracy-promoting interventions of the 1990s. Drawing on Soviet political forms but responding to 21st-century disenchantments with the neoliberal state, these projects seek to produce not only patriots, but also volunteers, entrepreneurs, and activists. Zusammenfassung Drawing on Soviet political forms but responding to 21st-century disenchantments with the neoliberal state, these projects seek to produce not only patriots, but volunteers, entrepreneurs, and activists. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Collaborative Possibilities, New Cold War Constraints: Ethnography in the Putin Era 2. Nashi in Ideology and Practice: The Social Life of Sovereign Democracy 3. Seliger 2009: "Commodify Your Talent" 4. From Komsomoltsy-Dobrovoltsy to Entrepreneurial Volunteers: Technologies of Kindness 5. "Arousing" Patriotism: Satire, Sincerity, and Geopolitical Play Conclusion Notes References Index
