Politics of Visibility and Belonging

Taylor & Francis

Politics of Visibility and BelongingFrom Russias Homosexual Propaganda Laws to the Ukraine War\nAuthor(s): Emil Edenborg\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138036819, 978-1138036819\nSynopsis\nIn this book, Edenborg studies contemporary conflicts of community as enacted in Russian media, from the homosexual propaganda laws to the Sochi Olympics and the Ukraine war, and explores the role of visibility in the production and contestation of belonging to a political community. \n\nThe book examines what it is that determines which subjects and narratives become visible and which are occluded in public spheres; how they are seen and made intelligible; and how those processes are involved in the imagination of communities. Investigating the differentiated consequences of visibility, Edenborg discusses what forms of visibility make belonging possible and what forms of visibility may be related to exclusion or violence. Th.