Narva as a Cultural Borderland: Estonian, European, Russophone
(RAD) Abstract: Looking at Narva, the Estonian city with strong Russian roots, through the lens of culture allows us to see it less as a threat and more as an opportunity. Current…
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Russian Worlds in Muslim Milieus: Meeting Points in Adjara and Tatarstan
(Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs) (Co-authored with Alexandra Yatsyk) This article discusses how the discursively and culturally constructed “Russian world” intersects and communicates with the “Turkic world” as an adjacent—and in…
Biopower at Europe’s eastern margins: new facets of a research agenda
(Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe) This special issue seeks to explore the perspectives of applying the different modalities of biopolitical analysis to four country-based case studies at Europe’s eastern…
Bordering and Identity-Making in Europe After the 2015 Refugee Crisis
(Geopolitics) The existing academic literature is replete with discussions about complex interconnections between borders and identities (Kuusisto-Arponen and Gilmartin 2015; Makarychev 2017). Borders are viewed as producers of texts and discourses,…
Identity Clashes: Russian and Ukrainian Debates on Culture, History, and Politics
(Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society) This issue’s special section explores the discursive gaps, tensions, and ruptures between Ukrainian and Russian narratives of national identity. It gives the floor…
Biopolitical Art and the Struggle for Sovereignty in Putin’s Russia
(Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe) This article addresses the public appeal of political actionism in today’s Russia through analysis of the political art of Pyotr Pavlensky. The research uses…
Incomplete Hegemonies, Hybrid Neighbours: Identity Games and Policy Tools
(CEPS; Book Chapter) This paper applies the concepts of hegemony and hybridity as analytical tools to help understand the structural changes taking place within the Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries and…
Bordering and Identity-Making in Europe After the 2015 Refugee Crisis
(Geopolitics) The existing academic literature is replete with discussions about complex interconnections between borders and identities (Kuusisto-Arponen and Gilmartin 2015; Makarychev 2017). Borders are viewed as producers of texts and…
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Normative and Civilisational Regionalisms: The EU, Russia and their Common Neighbourhoods The International Spectator, July 2018 By Andrey Makarychev https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03932729.2018.1483630 A Tale of Two Orthodoxies: Europe in Religious Discourses of…
Normative and Civilisational Regionalisms: The EU, Russia and their Common Neighbourhoods
(International Spectator) The contours of regionalism in a wider Europe are shaped by two dominant actors, the European Union (EU) and Russia, which often have divergent visions of the regional…