Introduction: Decolonizing Popular Geopolitics? Narrating Experiences Beyond the Anglophone World Saara Ratilainen, Sanna Turoma, and Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus

Part I: Contesting Global Hierarchies

Chapter 1: Streaming Chernobyl: Mediatized Battles over the Geopolitics of an Ecological Disaster Sanna Turoma and Mika Perkiömäki
Chapter 2: A Double-Edged Sword? Nationalist Blockbusters of China and Russia Tatu Laukkanen
Chapter 3: The East Will Rise Again: Gone with the Wind in the USSR and Russia Michael Denner

Part II Margins, Mobility, and Belonging

Chapter 4: Everyday Geopolitics of Uzbek Migrants in Russia and Their Left-behind Families in Uzbekistan Sherzod Eraliev and Rustamjon Urinboyev
Chapter 5: Writing the Difference: Geopolitical Imaginaries in Polish Travel Blogging Kinga Polynczuk-Alenius
Chapter 6: Geopolitical Marginality in the Age of Globalization: Blogger Mariia Dubrovskaia’s Travels across Eurasian Spaces Saara Ratilainen
Chapter 7: Alternative Geopolitics of Urban Space: The “Attractive Sadness” of Soviet Housing Projects Mikhail Suslov
Chapter 8: Geopolitics of “Eastern” Bodies in European Cultural Heritage Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus

Part III: Identities and Bodies Displaced

Chapter 9: Between the Russian and American Empires: The Sense of Place of an Arctic Peninsula in Yuri Rytkheu’s Novel The Chukchi Bible Eeva Kuikka
Chapter 10: Narrating the Geopolitics of Displacement: Marina Palei’s Khutor and the Scale of the Body Marja Sorvari
Chapter 11: Deterritorialization of Literary Identity: Exile and New Aesthetic Strategies in Russian-language Literatures Outside the Russian Federation Ilya Kukulin
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