Identity and Nation Building in Everyday Post-Socialist Life

This book explores the function of the "everyday" in the formation, consolidation and performance of national, sub-national and local identities in the former socialist region. It demonstrates how the study of mundane practices is a meaningful way of understanding the socio-political processes of identity formation at every level of a sta

Sommario

Introduction

Part I. Music and cultural events

1. Formal and Informal Nationalism. Jazz Performances in Azerbaijan

2. Can musicians build the nation? Popular music and identity in Estonia

3. The Georgian National Museum and the Museum of Soviet Occupation as loci of informal nation building

Part II. Consumer practices

4. Made in Ukraine: Consumer Citizenship During EuroMaidan Transformations

5. National Food, Belonging, and Identity among post-Soviet migrants in the UK

6. Consumer Citizenship and Reproduction of Estonianness

Part III. National discourses in everyday life

7. How to Pronounce "Belarusian"? Negotiating Identity through Naming

8. Nuanced Identities at the Borders of the European Union: Romanians in Serbia and Ukraine

9. Can Nation Building be spontaneous? A (belated) ethnography of the Orange Revolution

Conclusion

Info autore

Abel Polese is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Governance and Political Science of Tallinn University, Estonia, and the School of Law and Government of Dublin City University, Ireland.

Jeremy Morris is Co-Director of the Centre for Russian, European and Eurasian Studies and a Senior Lecturer in Russian Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK.

Oleksandra Seliverstova is a Marie Curie Fellow at the Institute of Political Science and Governance at Tallinn University, Estonia.

Emilia Paw¿usz is an early stage researcher in the School of Governance, Law and Society at Tallinn University, Estonia.

Riassunto

This book explores the function of the “everyday” in the formation, consolidation and performance of national, sub-national and local identities in the former socialist region. It demonstrates how the study of mundane practices is a meaningful way of understanding the socio-political processes of identity formation at every level of a sta

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Abel (Institute of Political Science and G Polese, Abel Morris Polese
• Con la collaborazione di: Jeremy Morris (Editore), Jeremy (University of Birmingham Morris (Editore), Morris Jeremy (Editore), Emilia Paw¿usz (Editore), Emilia Pawlusz (Editore), Emilia Pawłusz (Editore), Abel Polese (Editore), Abel (Institute of Political Science and Governance Polese (Editore), Polese Abel (Editore), Oleksandra Seliverstova (Editore), Seliverstova Oleksandra (Editore)
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 12.12.2019
• EAN: 9780367885526
• ISBN: 978-0-367-88552-6
• Pagine: 182
• Serie: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Etnologia > Demologia; Ethnic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Society & culture: general, Politics & government, Social and cultural history, Politics and government, Society and culture: general, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General