Popular Geopolitics in Russia and Post-Soviet Eastern Europe
Popular Geopolitics in Russia and Post-Soviet Eastern Europe
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俄罗斯和后苏联东欧的流行地缘政治
DOI：
10.1080/09668136.2017.1288861
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发表时间：
2017
影响因子：
1.4
通讯作者：
Joanna Szostek
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作者：
Joanna Szostek
大众地理政治学是人类地理学的一个分支领域，关注人们对世界不同地区的看法，以及这些看法如何在大众文化中产生。它探讨了国际政治的某些表现是如何在大众媒体中嵌入和传播的，包括漫画，漫画，电影，视频游戏，报纸和杂志。观众与媒体中地缘政治叙事的接触是这一研究重点的一部分。流行地缘政治学的子领域起源于20世纪90年代初的英语媒体和文化工作（夏普1993，1996;多兹1994，1996）。直到最近，人们还很少看到流行的地缘政治学的概念工具应用于后苏联地区。然而，大众地缘政治学的关注在当代俄罗斯和东欧具有高度相关性。例如，在乌克兰2013-2014年的“尊严革命”中，对理想化的“欧洲”的普遍看法是突出的。[1]与此同时，对“西方”的普遍不信任已成为普京领导下的俄罗斯政治生活的一个决定性特征，在那里，它通过国家电视台和许多其他媒体平台得到鼓励和放大（Smyth & Soboleva 2014; Szostek 2016）。关于“俄罗斯和后苏联东欧的流行地缘政治学”的研讨会于2015年2月19日至20日在斯拉夫和东欧研究学院（SSEES）举行，由UCL人文学科跨学科研究项目中心（CHIRP）资助，UCL欧洲研究所，东欧地区研究中心（CEELBAS）和安德鲁W。梅隆基金会。其目的是为流行地缘政治学的知名学者和研究前苏联媒体、政治、社会和文化的地区专家之间的跨学科对话创造一个论坛。该研讨会是一个机会，以推进有关地缘政治叙事及其在后苏联东欧流通的知识，同时也扩大了流行地缘政治学的地理和语言范围，作为调查的一个子领域。讲习班产生的一套内容多样但相互补充的文件构成了本特别章节的基础。
POPULAR GEOPOLITICS REFERS TO A SUBFIELD OF HUMAN GEOGRAPHY concerned with peoples’ perceptions of different parts of the world and how those perceptions are (re)produced in popular culture. It addresses how certain representations of international politics are embedded and promulgated in mass media, including cartoons, comics, movies, video games, newspapers and magazines. Audience engagements with geopolitical narratives in the media are part of this focus of study. The subfield of popular geopolitics originated in the early 1990s with work on Anglophone media and culture (Sharp 1993, 1996; Dodds 1994, 1996). Until recently, it was relatively rare to see the conceptual apparatus of popular geopolitics applied in relation to the post-Soviet region. Yet the concerns of popular geopolitics are highly relevant in contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe. Popular perceptions of an idealised ‘Europe’ were salient in Ukraine’s 2013–2014 ‘revolution of dignity’, for example.1 Meanwhile, popular mistrust of ‘the West’ has become a defining feature of political life in Putin’s Russia, where it is encouraged and amplified via state television and numerous other media platforms (Smyth & Soboleva 2014; Szostek 2016). A workshop on ‘Popular geopolitics in Russia and post-Soviet Eastern Europe’ was organised on 19–20 February 2015 at the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), funded by the UCL Centre for Humanities Interdisciplinary Research Projects (CHIRP), the UCL European Institute, the Centre for East European Language-Based Area Studies (CEELBAS) and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The aim was to create a forum for interdisciplinary dialogue between established scholars of popular geopolitics and area specialists who study the media, politics, societies and cultures of the former Soviet Union. The workshop was an opportunity to advance knowledge about geopolitical narratives and their circulation in post-Soviet Eastern Europe, while also broadening the geographic and linguistic scope of popular geopolitics as a subfield of enquiry. A diverse but complementary set of papers generated from the workshop constitute the basis of the present special section.