Everyday Belonging in the Post-Soviet Borderlands: Russian Speakers in Estonia and Kazakhstan

By Alina Jašina-Schäfer

Book Overview

Everyday Belonging in the Post-Soviet Borderlands examines the Russophone communities in peripheral cities adjacent to the Russian borders in Estonia and Kazakhstan. The research adopts a cross-disciplinary, space-sensitive approach that focuses comparatively on individual memories, narratives, and performances. Based on ethnographic examples, this book reconstructs belonging as a complex dialectical relationship between "inclusion" and "exclusion." This relationship, it is argued, manifests itself through a continuous spiral of boundary construction, appropriation, and transgression among different versions of Estonianness and Kazakhness, Europeanness and Cosmopolitanness, as well as Russianness.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1793631409
• ISBN13: 9781793631404
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"