Projecting Russia in a Mediatized World: Recursive Nationhood

This book offers a fresh look at Russia's global projection by emphasizing trans-state processes and mediatization, particularly in the digital age. It explores how the feedback loop of recursion drives Russian performances of national belonging and nation projection in various international arenas.

Format: Hardback
Length: 198 pages
Publication date: 31 January 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book presents a new perspective on how Russia projects itself to the world. Distancing itself from familiar, agency-driven International Relations accounts that focus on what ‘the Kremlin’ is up to and why, it argues for the need to pay attention to deeper, trans-state processes over which the Kremlin exerts much less control. Especially important in this context is mediatization, defined as the process by which contemporary social and political practices adopt a media form and follow media-driven logics. In particular, the book emphasizes the logic of the feedback loop or ‘recursion’, showing how it drives multiple Russian performances of national belonging and nation projection in the digital era. It applies this theory to recent issues, events, and scandals that have played out in international arenas ranging from television, through theatre, film, and performance art, to warfare.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Weight: 544g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367263904