This book provides a multi-faceted picture of the many complex processes taking place in the field of contemporary Russian media and popular culture. Russian social and cultural life today is strongly individualised and consumers are offered innumerable alternatives; but at the same time options are limited by the new technologies of control which are a key feature of Russian capitalism. Based on extensive original research by scholars in both Russia itself and in Finland, the book discusses new developments in the media industry and assesses a wide range of social and cultural changes,...
This book provides a multi-faceted picture of the many complex processes taking place in the field of contemporary Russian media and popular cultur...
Water in Social Imagination considers how human communities have known, imagined and shaped water and how water has shaped both material culture and the imagination. Essays from diverse perspectives offer histories of water at different scales from community water wells and sacred springs to Siberian rivers and the regulated space of the Baltic Sea. From early modernization through Soviet style technological optimism to contemporary environmentalism, water s ideological uses are multiple. With sustained attention not just to state policy and the technologies of high modernity, but to...
Water in Social Imagination considers how human communities have known, imagined and shaped water and how water has shaped both material cultur...
