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- Brankova, Alexandra
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Being a Woman and Russian National Identity : Discourses and Representations Through the Lenses of Russian Conservative and Nationalist Organizations
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Ingår i: Post-Soviet Women. - Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9783031380662 - 9783031380655 ; , s. 159-179
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Russian conservative turn and the masculinization of Russian national identity have affected women’s positions and their roles in the imagined community of the nation. The chapter explores how Russian nationalist organizations portray women and womanhood within Russian national identity discourses and representations. The study compares four nationalist and conservative groups: the Eurasian Youth Union, the Izborskii Club, the Russian Imperial Movement, and the Russian National Unity. The cases selected juxtapose more imperially oriented nationalists (the Eurasian Youth Union and the Izborskii Club) with their far-right, ethno-nationalist counterparts (the Russian Imperial Movement and the Russian National Unity). Digital media enhances the visualization of national identity discourses and the reach of nationalist media production to wider audiences. National identity discourses are critically analyzed within Russian nationalist new media ecologies focussing on their web channels, blogs, and social media. While far-right groups depict women through anti-abortion discourses and in terms of their reproductive functions for society, imperial nationalists have more complex and multi-layered notions of womanhood in terms of cultural, social, and political roles.
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- Brankova, Alexandra
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Transformation of Bulgarian 1990s Print Media Cultures : Technology, Cultural Representations, Piracy, and Identity Formation on a Crossroad between the East and the West
- 2023
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Ingår i: TMG Journal for Media History. - : Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. - 1387-649X .- 2213-7653. ; 26:2, s. 1-33
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The article investigates the transformation of Bulgaria’s print media culture in the 1990s, a period of profound political, economic, social, and cultural change in Eastern Europe. The paper’s contribution is two-fold. Firstly, it focuses on the convergence of selected Bulgarian newspapers with established and emerging media formats alongside Bulgaria’s position between the East and the West. Secondly, the representations of and discourses about technology during the transition period are analysed and their link with identity formation is explored. I compare two tabloids (Trud and 24 Chassa) with two business-focused broadsheets (Cash and Capital) issued in 1997. Adopting a non-Western perspective by focusing on a case of transitional Eastern Europe, the article offers a snapshot and a reflection on the cultural representations of technologies, discursive identity construction, and media practices of the 1990s. The emergence of the free market and the influx of electronics in Bulgaria affected identity formation as technologies related to notions of modernity, Europeanness, globalisation, entertainment, power, gender, and social status.
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