Introduction: Whose geopolitics? Narrating experiences beyond the Anglophone world (Saara Ratilainen, Sanna Turoma, and Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus) Part I: Contesting Global Hierarchies Chapter 1: Chernobyl and the Geopolitics of Ecological Crisis (Sanna Turoma and Mika Perkiömäki) Chapter 2: 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 3: A Double-Edged Sword? Nationalist Blockbusters of China and Russia (Tatu Laukkanen) Chapter 4: The East Will Rise Again: Gone with the Wind in the USSR and Russia (Michael Denner) Part II Mobility and Belonging Chapter 5: Alter-geopolitical Lives: Slow Violence, Dispossession and Indignance in Rural Ukraine (Kathryn Cassidy and Inga Freimane) Chapter 6: Writing the Difference: Geopolitical Imaginaries in Polish Travel Blogging (Kinga Polynczuk-Alenius) Chapter 7: Geopolitical Marginality in the Age of Globalization: Blogger Maria Dubrovskaia’s travels across Eurasian Spaces (Saara Ratilainen) Chapter 8: Everyday Geopolitics of Uzbek Migrants in Russia and Their Left-behind Families in Uzbekistan (Sherzod Eraliev and Rustam Urynbojev) Part III: Identities and Bodies Displaced Chapter 9: Narrating the Geopolitics of Displacement: Marina Palei’s “Khutor” and the Scale of the Body (Marja Sorvari) Chapter 10: Deterritorialization of Literary Identity: Exile and New Aesthetic Strategies in Today's Ukrainian Literature (Ilya Kukulin) Chapter 11: Alternative Geopolitics of Urban Space: The “Attractive Sadness” of Soviet Housing Projects (Mikhail Suslov) Chapter 12: Geopolitics of “Eastern” bodies in European cultural heritage (Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus) Conclusion Index