Eurasia 2.0
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Eurasia 2.0

Russian Geopolitics in the Age of New Media

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Eurasia 2.0

Russian Geopolitics in the Age of New Media

About this book

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 digitalization of geopolitical knowledge and practice. Our authors consider new spatial sensibilities and new identities of global as well as local Selves, the emergence of which is facilitated by the internet. They explore recent reconfigurations of the traditional imperial conundrum of center versus periphery. Developing Manuel Castells' argument that social activism in the digital era is organized around cultural values, the essays discuss new geopolitical ideologies which aim to reinforce Russia's spiritual sovereignty as a unique civilization, while at the same time seeking to rebrand Russia as a greater soft power by utilizing the Russian-speaking diaspora or employing traditionalist rhetoric. Great Power imagery, enemy-making, and visual mappings of Russia's future territorial expansion are traditional means for the manipulation of imperial pleasures and geopolitical fears. In the age of new media, however, this is being done with greater subtlety by mobilizing the grassroots, contracting private information channels, and de-politicizing geopolitics. Given the political events of recent years, it is logical that the Ukrainian crisis should provide the thematic backdrop for most of the authors.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Editorial Foreword
  3. Foreword
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction
  6. Part I: Geopolitical Sensibilities: Perceptions of Power and Space
  7. Chapter 1: Russian Digital Lifestyle Media and the Construction of Global Selves
  8. Chapter 2: Crossing Borders/RoadMovies in Russia
  9. Chapter 3: Digital Storytelling on YouTube
  10. Part II: Geopolitical Ideologies
  11. Chapter 4: Uses of Eurasia
  12. Chapter 5: Digital Geopolitics Encapsulated
  13. Chapter 6: Russia as an Alternative Model
  14. Part III: Visions of Russia as a Great Power
  15. Chapter 7: Putin’s Third Term andRussia as a Great Power
  16. Chapter 8: Future Empire
  17. Chapter 9: Russian Geopolitical Discourse
  18. Part IV: Post-Soviet Geopolitics and the Media
  19. Chapter 10: Digital Conservatism
  20. Chapter 11: The Invisible Battlefieldin the Belarusian Media Space
  21. Chapter 12: Constructing the Enemy-Otherin Social Media
  22. Part V: Popular Geopolitics
  23. Chapter 13: The ImaginedGeolinguistics of Ukraine
  24. Chapter 14: Euromaidan and the Geopolitical Struggle for Influence on Ukraine via New Media
  25. Chapter 15: The “Russian World”Concept in Online Debateduring the Ukrainian Crisis
  26. About the Contributors