November, 6, 18:00, Golden Hall. Viacheslav Morozov, Professor of EU-Russia Studies at the University of Tartu, will give a talk in IMARES Workshop Series.
Russian national identity has been a popular topic among constructivists and poststructuralists. Their research has yielded a profound understanding of how identity and foreign policy interrelate and mutually condition each other. However, we still have a rather limited insight into the sources of Russian identity politics. In his forthcoming book Viacheslav Morozov argues that it can be significantly enhanced by systematically applying postcolonial theory to Russia as a subaltern empire. Doing this not only enables one to bring together diverse insights gained by world systems theory and the internal colonization literature, but also to raise new questions specifically focused on the concept of subalternity, thus putting the Russian case in a much wider comparative context than any previous research has dared to attempt.
Viacheslav Morozov is Professor of EU-Russia Studies at the University of Tartu. Before moving to Tartu in 2010, he taught for 13 years at the St. Petersburg State University, Russia. He has published extensively on Russian national identity and foreign policy, and, more recently, also on Russian domestic politics and discourses on democracy. He is the author of Russia's Postcolonial Identity: A Subaltern Empire in a Eurocentric World (Palgrave, forthcoming 2015), Russia and Others: Identity and Boundaries of a Political Community (Moscow: NLO Books, 2009) and the editor of Decentring the West: The Idea of Democracy and the Struggle for Hegemony (Ashgate, 2013). Morozov is a member of the Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia (PONARS Eurasia), based at George Washington University.
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