Description: Further DetailsTitle: Russia Against ModernityCondition: NewFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 04/21/2023EAN: 9781509556588ISBN: 9781509556588Publisher: Polity PressDescription: Putin’s war is a “special operation” against modernity. The invasion has been directed against Ukraine, but the war has a broader target: the modern world of climate awareness, energy transition and digital labor. By trading oil and gas, promoting Trump and Brexit, spreading corruption, boosting inequality and homophobia, subsidizing far-right movements and destroying Ukraine, Putin’s clique aims at suppressing the ongoing transformation of modern societies. Alexander Etkind distinguishes between Russia’s pompous, weaponized paleomodernity, on the one hand, and the lean, decentralized gaiamodernity of the Anthropocene, on the other. Putin’s clique has used various strategies – from climate denialism and electoral interference to war and genocide – to resist and subvert modernity. Working on political, cultural and even demographic levels, social mechanisms convert the vicious energy of the oil curse into all-out aggression. Dissecting these mechanisms, Etkind’s brief but rigorous analyses of social structuration, cultural dynamics and family models reveal the agency that drives the Russian war against modernity. This short, sharp critique of the Russian regime combines political economy, social history and demography to predict the decolonizing and defederating of Russia.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 219mmItem Length: 139mmItem Width: 14mmItem Weight: 230gGenre: Law & PoliticsAuthor: Alexander EtkindRelease Year: 2023 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Russia Against Modernity
Title: Russia Against Modernity
Release Date: 04/21/2023
Release Year: 2023
EAN: 9781509556588
ISBN: 9781509556588
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Book Title: Russia Against Modernity
Number of Pages: 176 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication Year: 2023
Item Height: 0.6 in
Topic: World / Russian & Former Soviet Union, Russia & the Former Soviet Union, World / European
Genre: Political Science, History
Item Weight: 8 Oz
Author: Alexander Etkind
Item Length: 8.5 in
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
