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Title: | B(ordering) Utopia in Birobidzhan: Spatial Aspects of Jewish Colonization in Inner Asia |
Authors: | Peshkov, I. |
Issue Date: | 2021 |
Publisher: | Уральский федеральный университет Ural Federal University |
Citation: | Peshkov I. B(ordering) Utopia in Birobidzhan: Spatial Aspects of Jewish Colonization in Inner Asia / I. Peshkov // Changing Societies & Personalities. — 2021. — Vol. 5. Iss. 2. — P. 220–232. |
Abstract: | The borderline territory serves a double purpose, being simultaneously zones of cultural contact and cultural barriers—administrative and often civilizational. This ambivalence frequently affects borderline area inhabitants turning them into hostages of border management regimes and outside projections concerning their cultural and civilizational status, and the authenticity of forms of their culture representation. In the case of Birobidzhan, we are dealing with an absolutely modern project of creating ethnic territoriality without reference to the historical context and far from the places of traditional settlement of the Jewish population. The implementation of this project put the Jewish settlers at the center of a complex process of border management and securitization of the border areas. The factors of border and “remoteness” are largely underestimated in Birobidzhan studies. The article fills this niche, emphasizing the spatial aspects of the implementation of the “anti-Zionist utopia” and its complex relationship with previous models of territoriality in the region and local inhabitants. |
Keywords: | BIROBIDZHAN SETTLER STATE INNER ASIA BORDER STUDIES |
URI: | http://elar.urfu.ru/handle/10995/100562 |
RSCI ID: | https://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=46386304 |
ISSN: | 2587-8964 2587-6104 |
DOI: | 10.15826/csp.2021.5.2.130 |
metadata.dc.description.sponsorship: | The paper was prepared with the support of the National Science Center (Poland) (grant number DEC 2012/05/E/HS 3/03527). |
Origin: | Changing Societies & Personalities. 2021. Vol. 5. Iss. 2 |
Appears in Collections: | Changing Societies & Personalities |
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