Energy/Waste: Approaches to the Environment in Post-Soviet Cultures
edited by Maria Hristova, Alyssa DeBlasio, and Irina Anisimova (Slavica Bergensia 14, 2023) open access
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This volume investigates representations of energy and waste in post-Soviet cultures. The contributors analyze how post-Soviet societies reinterpret and reimagine not only their role in energy use and waste management, but also their relationship to the Soviet legacy of large-scale environmental changes, pollution, and resource exploitation. By examining how categories of energy and waste are expressed and made visible through discourse, literature, film, art, and other modes of cultural production,听the book aims to nuance and enrich environmental approaches in scholarship on the post-Soviet world.听The volume鈥檚 interdisciplinary chapters highlight the distinctive trajectories of post-Soviet countries鈥� approaches to environmental regulation and representation in the last three decades.
The book is , published by听Slavica Bergensia.
Contents
Energy/Waste: Introduction 鈥撎齅aria Hristova, Alyssa DeBlasio, Irina Anisimova
Regimes and their Refuse: Filming Russia in Transition 鈥撎齅asha Shpolberg
鈥淧omor鈥檈 ne Pomoika鈥�: Framing the Protest Campaign against the Landfill Project at Shies Station in Russia鈥檚 Arkhangelsk Region 鈥撎鼸lena Gorbacheva
Post-Soviet Filmic Depictions of the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Tests 鈥撎齅aria Hristova
Environmental Contamination and Postcolonial Recuperation in Late Soviet and Post-independence Kazakhstani Cinema 鈥撎鼸lena Monastireva-Ansdell
The Politics and Aesthetics of Waste in Liudmila Petrushevskaia鈥檚 Fiction 鈥撎齀rina Anisimova
Finding Our Words: Representations of Chornobyl and the Impossibility of Language 鈥撎齁os茅 Vergara
A Terrible Kaleidoscope: The Anthropocene Lyric in Chornobyl Poetry 鈥撎鼿aley Laurila
The Unknowability of Post-nuclear Landscapes in the Russian Television Series Chernobyl, Exclusion Zone 鈥撎齀rina Souch
Contributors
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Bringing together an international group of scholars from various disciplines 鈥� Russian media studies, the history of ideas, political science, literature and gender studies 鈥� this book combines assessments of Russian cultural policies, political ideologies and intellectual trends with case studies on Russian literature, film, rap and memory culture.
The book is , published by听Slavica Bergensia.
Contents:
The Cultural is Political: Introduction 鈥� Irina Anisimova & Ingunn Lunde
The Sources of Russia鈥檚 Transgressive Conservatism: Cultural Sovereignty and the Monopolization of Bespredel 鈥� Jardar 脴stb酶
The Constitution of the Current State: Article 13 and Russian Cultural Politics 鈥� Ulrich Schmid
Russian Civilizationism at the Turn of a New Decade: The Case of Academia 鈥� K氓re Johan Mj酶r
#Russianrapisracist vs #RussianNaziPurgeParty: On Geopolitics, Trolling and the Mistranslation of Race in a Twitter Controversy 鈥� Dinara Yangeldina
From Celebrated Novel to Media Outrage: The Public Debate Surrounding the Miniseries Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes听鈥� Irina Anisimova
Battle for the North: Russian Cyberconflict over Commemorating the Red Army鈥檚 Liberation of Northern Norway 鈥� Johanne Kalsaas
The Violent Frame: Vladimir Sorokin鈥檚 鈥淲hite Square鈥� 鈥� Stehn Aztlan Mortensen
The Incarnation of the Past: Sergei Lebedev鈥檚 Poetics of Memory 鈥� Ingunn Lunde