Everyday Belonging in the Post-Soviet Borderlands

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Everyday Belonging in the Post-Soviet Borderlands is written by Alina Jašina-Schäfer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1978792468 (ISBN 10) and 9781978792463 (ISBN 13).

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.