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Performing Political Opposition in Russia

The Case of the Youth Group Oborona

By: Laura Lyytikainen

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Performing Political Opposition in Russia

The Case of the Youth Group Oborona

By: Laura Lyytikainen

Drawing on fieldwork conducted in Moscow and St. Petersburg among the political opposition’s youth group Oborona (Defence), this ground-breaking work brings forward a multifaceted and colourful image of the life of political opposition activists in a restricted political environment. Existing studies on youth political activism in Russia have mainly dealt with the pro-Kremlin youth movements, such as Nashi, while youth opposition activism has been studied very little. Lyytikäinen contributes to this gap by showing how youth are also actively organizing against the current government and how Russian oppositional youth activist practices are diverse and constantly evolving. Theoretically this book contributes to discussions on activist identities, as well as to an understanding of social movements and protest by analysing political protests as social performances. The research illustrates how Soviet continuities and liberal ideas are entangled in Russian political activism to create new post-socialist political identities and practices. It also questions the idea of Russian democratization being tied to its totalitarian past, and that of western-type liberal democracy being the goal of this process. Instead, the book proposes that Russian political culture should be analysed on its own, and as an entanglement of various interacting systems of thought.

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Routledge

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131708229X

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9781317082293

Identities in Practice

A Trans-Atlantic Ethnography of Sikh immigrants in Finland and in California

By: Laura Hirvi

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Identities in Practice

A Trans-Atlantic Ethnography of Sikh immigrants in Finland and in California

By: Laura Hirvi

Identities in Practice draws a nuanced picture of how the experience of migration affects the process through which Sikhs in Finland and California negotiate their identities. What makes this study innovative with regard to the larger context of migration studies is the contrast it provides between experiences at two Sikh migration destinations. By using an ethnographic approach, Hirvi reveals how practices carried out in relation to work, dress, the life-cycle, as well as religious and cultural sites, constitute important moments in which Sikhs engage in the often transnational art of negotiating identities.

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185

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Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura

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9522227471

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9789522227478

Materiality in Modernist Short Fiction

Lived Things

By: Laura Oulanne

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Materiality in Modernist Short Fiction

Lived Things

By: Laura Oulanne

Materiality in Modernist Short Fiction provides a fresh approach to reading material things in modern fiction, accounting for the interplay of the material and the cultural. This volume investigates how Djuna Barnes, Katherine Mansfield, and Jean Rhys use the short story form to evoke the material world as both living and lived, and how the spaces they create for challenging gendered social norms can also be nonanthropocentric spaces for encounters between the human and the nonhuman. Using the unique knowledge created by literary works to spark new conversations between phenomenology, cognitive studies, and new materialisms, complemented with a feminist perspective, this book explores how literature can touch the basic experience of being in, feeling and making sense of a material world that is itself alive and active. From a sensitive reading of how three women used the material world to make their readers see, feel, and question the norms shaping our experience, this volume draws a theory of reading affective materiality that illuminates modernism and the short story form but also reaches beyond them.

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124

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Routledge

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1000388492

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9781000388497

The Patterned Mind

Creative Methods in Surface Design

By: Laura Isoniemi

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The Patterned Mind

Creative Methods in Surface Design

By: Laura Isoniemi

The Patterned Mindoffers new points of view and current methods for surface design. High-quality and inspiring pictures encourage you to immediately start creating something new. Understanding with your hands and the presence of play in design lie at the core of this book. The book introduces creative patterning methods and describes inspiring working methods. It also discusses the latest technical applications that can be used as surface design tools. The methods introduced can be applied to various different fields of design and art. The methods of inventing introduced in this book serve anyone who wishes to get in touch with their own creative side and wants to utilise it professionally or in their hobbies.

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Aalto korkeakoulusäätiö

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9526087615

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9789526087610

The Limits of Patriarchy

How Female Networks of Pilfering and Gossip Sparked the First Debates on Rural Gender Rights in the 19th-Century Finnish-Language Press

By: Laura Stark

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The Limits of Patriarchy

How Female Networks of Pilfering and Gossip Sparked the First Debates on Rural Gender Rights in the 19th-Century Finnish-Language Press

By: Laura Stark

In the mid-19th century, letters to newspapers in Finland began to condemn a practice known as home thievery, in which farm mistresses pilfered goods from their farms to sell behind the farm master’s back. Why did farm mistresses engage home thievery and why were writers so harsh in their disapproval of it? Why did many men in their letters nonetheless sympathize with women’s pilfering? What opinions did farm daughters express? This book explores theoretical concepts of agency and power applied to the 19th-century context and takes a closer look at the family patriarch, resistance to patriarchal power by farm mistresses and their daughters, and the identities of those Finnish men who already in the 1850s and 1860s sought to defend the rights of rural farm women.

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Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura

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9522227927

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9789522227928

Governing the Feminist Peace

The Vitality and Failure of the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda

By: Paul C. Kirby,Laura Shepherd

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Governing the Feminist Peace

The Vitality and Failure of the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda

By: Paul C. Kirby,Laura Shepherd

The Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda is celebrated as a landmark global framework for achieving gender equality in peace and security governance. Its power is visible in two decades of United Nations resolutions, national action plans, regional initiatives, and countless activist, academic, and philanthropic projects. Yet despite this vitality, it is haunted by failure, as a lack of political will and stubborn patriarchal resistance frustrate its promise. This book offers a groundbreaking critical account of the WPS agenda, exploring its evolution in relation to the wider politics of global governance and feminism. Paul Kirby and Laura J. Shepherd argue that WPS is not a settled, cohesive policy but a field in flux, defined and disrupted by a growing number of national, supranational, subnational, and transnational agents who in turn act on an expanding catalogue of threats, from climate change to homophobia, challenging traditional boundaries of peace and security. Kirby and Shepherd reconceptualize WPS as a “policy ecosystem,” tracing interaction and contestation around the agenda across levels from the UN Security Council to military alliances to feminist activists. They combine analysis of a vast dataset of policy documents with key informant interviews and close readings of diplomacy, statecraft, the politics of indigeneity, counterinsurgency, antimilitarism, human rights, and the arms trade across the first twenty years of WPS. Far-reaching and incisive, Governing the Feminist Peace poses a provocative question: What if we abandoned the idea of the WPS agenda as a unified political project altogether?

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248

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Columbia University Press

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0231555857

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9780231555852

The Best Places to Kiss® in the Northwest

A Romantic Travel Guide

By: Laura Kraemer

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The Best Places to Kiss® in the Northwest

A Romantic Travel Guide

By: Laura Kraemer

This popular guide to the most romantic travel destinations in the Northwest has been completely revised and updated.

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484

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Seal Press

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1570613796

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9781570613791

Performing Political Opposition in Russia

The Case of the Youth Group Oborona

By: Laura Lyytikainen

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Performing Political Opposition in Russia

The Case of the Youth Group Oborona

By: Laura Lyytikainen

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Book's by Laura Lyytikainen

Performing Political Opposition in Russia

Performing Political Opposition in Russia

Identities in Practice

Identities in Practice

Materiality in Modernist Short Fiction

Materiality in Modernist Short Fiction

The Patterned Mind

The Patterned Mind

The Limits of Patriarchy

The Limits of Patriarchy

Governing the Feminist Peace

Governing the Feminist Peace

The Best Places to Kiss® in the Northwest

The Best Places to Kiss® in the Northwest

Performing Political Opposition in Russia

Performing Political Opposition in Russia

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