Energy/Waste: Approaches to the Environment in Post-Soviet Cultures

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, the book aims to nuance and enrich environmental approaches in scholarship on the post-Soviet world. The volume’s interdisciplinary chapters highlight the distinctive trajectories of post-Soviet countries’ approaches to environmental regulation and representation in the last three decades.

The book is open access, published by Slavica Bergensia.

Contents

Energy/Waste: Introduction – Maria Hristova, Alyssa DeBlasio, Irina Anisimova

Regimes and their Refuse: Filming Russia in Transition – Masha Shpolberg

“Pomor’e ne Pomoika”: Framing the Protest Campaign against the Landfill Project at Shies Station in Russia’s Arkhangelsk Region – Elena Gorbacheva

Post-Soviet Filmic Depictions of the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Tests – Maria Hristova

Environmental Contamination and Postcolonial Recuperation in Late Soviet and Post-independence Kazakhstani Cinema – Elena Monastireva-Ansdell

The Politics and Aesthetics of Waste in Liudmila Petrushevskaia’s Fiction – Irina Anisimova

Finding Our Words: Representations of Chornobyl and the Impossibility of Language – José Vergara

A Terrible Kaleidoscope: The Anthropocene Lyric in Chornobyl Poetry – Haley Laurila

The Unknowability of Post-nuclear Landscapes in the Russian Television Series Chernobyl, Exclusion Zone – Irina Souch

Contributors

The Cultural is Political: Intersections of Russian Art and State Politics, redigert av Irina Anisimova og Ingunn Lunde

I boken The Cultural is Political: Intersections of Russian Art and State Politics, redigert av Irina Anisimova og Ingunn Lunde, bidrar en gruppe internasjonale forskere fra ulike disipliner – deriblant medievitenskap, idéhistorie, sammenlignende politikk, litteratur og kjønnsstudier – med ulike analytiske tilnærminger til russisk kulturpolitikk, politiske ideologier og intellektuelle trender. Boken presenterer en rekke case studies av russisk litteratur, film, rap og minnekultur. 

Boken er open access, utgitt i serien Slavica Bergensia.

Innhold:

The Cultural is Political: Introduction – Irina Anisimova & Ingunn Lunde

The Sources of Russia’s Transgressive Conservatism: Cultural Sovereignty and the Monopolization of Bespredel – Jardar Østbø

The Constitution of the Current State: Article 13 and Russian Cultural Politics – Ulrich Schmid

Russian Civilizationism at the Turn of a New Decade: The Case of Academia – Kåre Johan Mjør

#Russianrapisracist vs #RussianNaziPurgeParty: On Geopolitics, Trolling and the Mistranslation of Race in a Twitter Controversy – Dinara Yangeldina

From Celebrated Novel to Media Outrage: The Public Debate Surrounding the Miniseries Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes – Irina Anisimova

Battle for the North: Russian Cyberconflict over Commemorating the Red Army’s Liberation of Northern Norway – Johanne Kalsaas

The Violent Frame: Vladimir Sorokin’s “White Square” – Stehn Aztlan Mortensen

The Incarnation of the Past: Sergei Lebedev’s Poetics of Memory – Ingunn Lunde