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(Eds.) Southeastern Europe 41.3 - ' The Balkan Migration Route between Securitarian and Humanitarian Policies'
No full textSoutheastern Europe 41.3 - Edited issue
Guest editors: Anna Krasteva and Marco Puleri
ARTICLES
Neža Kogovšek Šalamon, Mass Migration, Crimmigration and Defiance: The Case of the Humanitarian Corridor
Dimitris Skleparis, European governments’ responses to the ‘refugee crisis’: The interdependence of EU internal and external controls
Theodor Tudoroiu, Transit Migration and “Valve States”: The Triggering Factors of the 2015 Migratory Wave
Ayhan Kaya, Istanbul as a Space of Cultural Affinity for Syrian Refugees: “Istanbul is safe despite everything!”
BOOK REVIEWS
Angela Ilić, Gorana Ognjenović and Jasna Jozelić (eds.), Politicization of Religion, The Power of Symbolism: The Case of Former Yugoslavia and its Successor States
Višeslav Raos, Igor Štiks, Nations and Citizens in Yugoslavia and the Post-Yugoslav States: One Hundred Years of Citizenship
Mateja Sinčić, Dino Abazović and Mitja Velikonja, eds., Post-Yugoslavia. New Cultural and Political Perspectives
Maria Todorova, Stefan Rohdewald. Götter der Nationen: Religiöse Erinnerungsfiguren in Serbien, Bulgarien und Makedonien bis 194
La fine dell’età post-sovietica? Per una storia delle relazioni internazionali tra la Russia e i paesi del suo “Vicino Estero”
No full textIn this article the author offers an in-depth analysis of the political relations of the Russian Federation with the countries making up the so-called “Near Abroad” in the post-Soviet era. Through the lenses of a systematic periodization of the evolution of Russian policies in the last three decades, the author aims to highlight how the “crisis” emerged in the aftermath of Russia’s war of aggression on Ukraine, starting in February 2022, can be also seen as the final outcome of the long-term development of the political strategy and instruments implemented by the Kremlin for the promotion of regional integration
“How the Writer R. Left the City of Z for the Country U, and Along the Way He Died and Wrote a Novel”: Ukrainian Russophonia through the Lens of Vladimir Rafeenko’s Literary Experience
No full textThe aim of this paper is to understand how the position and self-identification of Russophone writers in the Ukrainian literary context have changed over the last two decades (2000-2019). The prime example of the “afterlife” metaphorically experienced by Vladimir Rafeenko (b. 1969, Donetsk) in independent Ukraine will be the main focus of the investigation. Rafeenko’s literary experience in post-Soviet (and post-Maidan) Ukraine revolves around some of the main issues concerning the evolution of the Russophone cultural paradigm and its reception in the national scene: from marginality to recognition; from minority to self-determination; and, eventually, even to literary bilingualism. In this paper, these dynamics will be analysed through reading and interpreting some excerpts from Rafeenko’s most significant works, emblematically reflecting the emergence of his identification as a Ukrainian Russophone author in the post-Maidan era
Ripensare il post-sovietico. Un’introduzione
Full text linkIn this introduction to the special issue Beyond the Post-: (Post-)Soviet Experience Through (Post-)Colonial Lenses, the author aims to reflect upon the contribution of postcolonial theory to the study of post-Soviet political and cultural dynamics on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union: which postcolonial tools can help us understand and enrich the search for a definition of the post-Soviet as an analytic category? In which ways are the post-Soviet cultures postcolonial? What, on the contrary, makes the geographical area born after the collapse of the Soviet Union different from the so-called `Third World' and its dynamics
Engaging with European (Dis-)Integration. Russia in dialogue with Europe/s
No full textIn this chapter, the author analyses the recent evolution of relations between the European Union and the Russian Federation, stressing in particular the role played by the different member states of the EU in promoting, or disapproving, the creation
of a common space of cooperation with the Russian Federation. The research mainly concerns the study of the different outcomes for EU-Russia relations brought on by the two main crises which affected the European Union throughout 2014–17 (i.e. the 'Ukraine Crisis' in 2014 and the 'Migration Crisis' in 2015)
In Search of ‘New Roots’: Towards a Situational Ideology in Putin’s Russia
No full textThis chapter is focused on the framework of ideological benchmarks adopted by the Russian elite during Putin’s third mandate (2012–2018), in an attempt to understand and interpret the internal dynamics which reshaped the political discourse in the Russian Federation. In a dynamic and culturally oriented approach, the author deals with the processes which have led to political transformation and the consensus-building strategies put in place by the Russian political establishment. The research structure is built around the analysis of official documents and public speeches published and held mainly in 2014–16, and surveys and sociological research on Russian society elaborated by the main research centres in the Russian Federation throughout Putin’s third term
The Missing Hybridity: ‘Envisioning’ Ukrainian Literary Space
Full text linkIn this paper, the author focuses on the question concerning the complex positioning of the Russophone literary phenomenon in the Ukrainian post-Soviet literary canon. Analysing the conceptualization of the hybrid cultural elements in the post-Soviet cultural area, it is possible to observe the rise of a contrast between the cultural ‘exclusivist’ and ‘inclusivist’ attitudes in the Ukrainian literary debate. It is the product of the renewed social and political clash between the Ukrainian and Russian ‘national systems’. The ideologization of the ethnolinguistic factor in the Post-Soviet area gives birth to competing ideologies, which draw new ‘imagined borders’ in the Ukrainian literary space. It is the result of the polarization of the respective national historical narratives, misused by the current political discourses, to paralyse the dialogical perspectives in the process of cultural confrontation. Listening to the ‘voices’ of contemporary cultural actors, it will be possible to draw different images in order to envision the Ukrainian literary space
La ‘questione russa’ nel dibattito intellettuale e politico dell’Ucraina del post-Majdan
No full textThis paper provides an analysis of the intellectual and political debate around the role of Russian language and culture in post-Maidan Ukraine. The author retraces (a) the main social and cultural developments emerged in Ukraine in the aftermath of the Euromajdan Revolution (2013-14) and the war in Donbas (2014-), and (b) the directions of cultural policies promoted by the post-Majdan elite (2014-19). Through this twofold reading the article shows the peculiar interrelation between the field of culture and the field of politics in contemporary Ukraine, in an attempt to reveal the specific nuances of the so-called ‘Russian question’
Oltre la “crisi ucraina”. Lo spazio post-sovietico come crocevia delle relazioni internazionali tra la Russia e l’Unione Europea
No full textIn this essay the author explores the long-term dynamics of the
relationship between Russian Federation and European Union in the last decades, looking at
the “Ukrainian crisis” as a turning point. Particular attention is paid to the developments of the
regional integration process in the post-Soviet region. In the light of the strong radicalization
of relations between European Union and Russia in the aftermath of the war in Ukraine, the
potential renewal of the respective foreign policy lines in the field of regional integration seems
undoubtedly to play a crucial role in determining the future directions of their difficult dialogue
Book Review - Klavdia Smola and Dirk Uffelmann (Eds.), Postcolonial Slavic Literatures after Communism (Post- colonial Perspectives on Eastern Europe, Volume 4) (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2016). 501 pp. Index. ISBN: 978-3-631-66856-6
No full textBook review - Klavdia Smola and Dirk Uffelmann (Eds.), Postcolonial Slavic Literatures after Communism (Post- colonial Perspectives on Eastern Europe, Volume 4) (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2016). 501 pp. Index. ISBN: 978-3-631-66856-
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