Contesting Feminism and Media Culture in Contemporary Russia: From Celebrities to Anti-war Activists examines how Russian discourses on feminism have been informed by fast-evolving, cross-border, transcultural, and trans-local media flows, which have both diversified and fragmented the spectrum of feminism in the region.The book takes a multidisciplinary approch to Russian feminisms, including an examination of Russian politics and culture, the ideology of glamour, celebri...

Inspired by popular, feminist, subaltern, and ecocritical geopolitics, Geopolitics and Culture: Narrating Eastern European and Eurasian Worlds presents new research of culture in the Eastern European context. This volume highlights the symbolic production of power, which, although located outside political institutions, engenders geopolitical boundaries and defines cultural margins. Analyzing multilingual materials such as blockbuster films, digital visuals, blogs and discussion f...

This book discusses the return of geopolitical ideas and doctrines to the post-Soviet space with special focus on the new phenomenon of digital geopolitics, which is an overarching term for different political practices including dissemination of geopolitical ideas online, using the internet by political figures and diplomats for legitimation and outreach activity, and viral spread of geopolitical memes. Different chapters explore the new possibilities and threats associated with this digi...