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Constructing post-Soviet geopolitics in Estonia /
This work examines the construction of post-Soviet political space, geopolitical discourses and boundaries in Estonia. Making use of innovative methodological solutions such as Q-methodology, its analysis includes in-depth interviews that elucidate a variety of issues through human experience and su...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; Portland, OR :
Frank Cass,
2003.
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| Colección: | Cass studies in geopolitics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures, Tables and Map; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Notes; 1. The Space of Post-Soviet Geopolitics in Estonia; From Pre-Soviet to Post-Soviet Geopolitics; A New 'Critical Geopolitics' Approach; Puzzles in Post-Soviet Geopolitics; Estonia's Early 1990s Restorationist Geopolitics; Restoration and Resistance; Notes; 2. 'High' and 'Low' Geopolitics; The Social Construction of Discourses; Security is about Securitisation; Identities Mediate Discourses and Subjectivities.
- Subjectivities are Situated in IntersubjectivityThe Construction of Geopolitical Discourses in the Post-Soviet Space; Notes; 3. In Search of Discourses; Discourse Analysis as a Viewpoint on Post-Soviet Geopolitics; Q-Methodological Discourse Analysis; Listening to Subjective Voices; The Q-Sorting Experiments; The Post-Sorting Interviews; Complementary Material; Analysing Subjective Voices; Methodological Note; Notes; 4. Restorationist Geopolitics and Beyond; Seeing the Politics in Discourses; Competing Discourses in Post-Soviet Estonia; Discourse I: Echoes Of Restorationist Geopolitics.
- Discourse II: Desecuritising Interethnic IssuesDiscourse III: Estonia First!; Discourse IV: Defending Russophone Identity; Lines of Division; Grounds for Co-Operation; Hidden Securities?; Notes; 5. Identities and Subjectivities Matter; Identity Politics and Subjectivity in the Construction of Discourses; Conflictual Everyday Life Gives Rise to Restoration; Return to Ambivalent Everyday Life Erodes Restoration; Russophone Identity Politics; Revisiting the Security-Identity Puzzle; Notes; 6. Discourse, Power and New Boundaries; Discourse and Power; Power, Empowerment and the Powerless.
- Power: The Persistence of Restorationist GeopoliticsEmpowerment: Challenging Restorationism in Interethnic Policies; The Powerless: Silenced in Foreign Policy; Identity Politics Vs. Realpolitik; National, Regional and European Geopolitics; Revisiting the Internal-External Puzzle; Notes; Concluding Remarks: Critical Geopolitics and Peaceful Development; Note; Appendices; Appendix I: Transliteration Of The Cyrillic Alphabet; Appendix II: Map of Estonia (1991-Present); References; Index.