Everyday Belonging in the Post-Soviet Borderlands

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<p><span>Everyday Belonging in the Post-Soviet Borderlands</span><span> 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.</span></p>

Autorenportrait

<p><span>Alina Ja¨ina-Schäfer</span><span>is post-doctoral fellow at the Federal Institute for Culture and History of the Germans in Eastern Europe (BKGE).</span></p>

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