Emil Edenborg is Postdoctoral Researcher at Södertörn University, Sweden.

• IntroductionTverskaya Ulitsa, Moscow, May 2006Projects of belonging in contemporary Russia1: Politics of belonging: from speech to visibilityPolitics of belonging: the issues at stakePolitics of belonging as speech: (counter)narratives and (counter)publics Politics of belonging as visibility contestations 2: Russian media as a space of appearanceA historical overview of media in RussiaContaining, amplifying and contesting visibility in RussiaRevisiting the audience(s)Conclusion3: "Homosexual propaganda": regulating queer visibilityQueer visibility, belonging and geopoliticsRegulating queerness in Russian historyThe dominant interpretation of the propaganda lawTensions in the narrativeConclusion4: Sochi: the nation on displayPolitics of belonging and the spectacularContexts and controversies around the Sochi GamesSochi-2014 as a project of belongingContesting the Sochi spectacle Conclusion 5: Ukraine: spectacles and specters of warWar, (in)visibility and belonging Part one: satire and violent cartographies Part two: spectacular and spectral homecomings Conclusion Conclusion: nothing more to see?The limits of speechArrangements of visibility and the production of belongingVisibility, invisibility and resistanceRussian politics, belonging and visibilitySeeing ahead

This is an important book in which the role of visibility in general and the media as its facilitator in particular is added to the theorization of political projects of belonging. It focuses on fascinating contesting case studies from the Russian media but is of generic theoretical and political importance as well.- Professor Nira Yuval-Davis, Director of the research centre on Migration, Refugees and Belonging, University of East LondonThis book offers an interesting account of why and how the Kremlin tolerates disparate voices and alternative media, while retaining the commanding heights of media capacity. It shows how a populist-authoritarian regime exploits contradictory and illogical media narratives to frame particular emotional responses. It suggests how and why opponents of the Kremlin struggle to achieve effective traction in the public sphere.- Dan Healey, University of Oxford, Salvic Review This book is a monumental research effort. The attention to Russian sources of various kinds and technical knowledge (regarding pathogens, life sciences, military applications, and the Russian bureaucratic process) is remarkable. - Lisa A. Balionee, Saint Joseph's University

Emil Edenborg is Postdoctoral Researcher at Södertörn University, Sweden.

• IntroductionTverskaya Ulitsa, Moscow, May 2006Projects of belonging in contemporary Russia1: Politics of belonging: from speech to visibilityPolitics of belonging: the issues at stakePolitics of belonging as speech: (counter)narratives and (counter)publics Politics of belonging as visibility contestations 2: Russian media as a space of appearanceA historical overview of media in RussiaContaining, amplifying and contesting visibility in RussiaRevisiting the audience(s)Conclusion3: "Homosexual propaganda": regulating queer visibilityQueer visibility, belonging and geopoliticsRegulating queerness in Russian historyThe dominant interpretation of the propaganda lawTensions in the narrativeConclusion4: Sochi: the nation on displayPolitics of belonging and the spectacularContexts and controversies around the Sochi GamesSochi-2014 as a project of belongingContesting the Sochi spectacle Conclusion 5: Ukraine: spectacles and specters of warWar, (in)visibility and belonging Part one: satire and violent cartographies Part two: spectacular and spectral homecomings Conclusion Conclusion: nothing more to see?The limits of speechArrangements of visibility and the production of belongingVisibility, invisibility and resistanceRussian politics, belonging and visibilitySeeing ahead

This is an important book in which the role of visibility in general and the media as its facilitator in particular is added to the theorization of political projects of belonging. It focuses on fascinating contesting case studies from the Russian media but is of generic theoretical and political importance as well.- Professor Nira Yuval-Davis, Director of the research centre on Migration, Refugees and Belonging, University of East LondonThis book offers an interesting account of why and how the Kremlin tolerates disparate voices and alternative media, while retaining the commanding heights of media capacity. It shows how a populist-authoritarian regime exploits contradictory and illogical media narratives to frame particular emotional responses. It suggests how and why opponents of the Kremlin struggle to achieve effective traction in the public sphere.- Dan Healey, University of Oxford, Salvic Review This book is a monumental research effort. The attention to Russian sources of various kinds and technical knowledge (regarding pathogens, life sciences, military applications, and the Russian bureaucratic process) is remarkable. - Lisa A. Balionee, Saint Joseph's University

Emil Edenborg is Postdoctoral Researcher at Södertörn University, Sweden.

• IntroductionTverskaya Ulitsa, Moscow, May 2006Projects of belonging in contemporary Russia1: Politics of belonging: from speech to visibilityPolitics of belonging: the issues at stakePolitics of belonging as speech: (counter)narratives and (counter)publics Politics of belonging as visibility contestations 2: Russian media as a space of appearanceA historical overview of media in RussiaContaining, amplifying and contesting visibility in RussiaRevisiting the audience(s)Conclusion3: "Homosexual propaganda": regulating queer visibilityQueer visibility, belonging and geopoliticsRegulating queerness in Russian historyThe dominant interpretation of the propaganda lawTensions in the narrativeConclusion4: Sochi: the nation on displayPolitics of belonging and the spectacularContexts and controversies around the Sochi GamesSochi-2014 as a project of belongingContesting the Sochi spectacle Conclusion 5: Ukraine: spectacles and specters of warWar, (in)visibility and belonging Part one: satire and violent cartographies Part two: spectacular and spectral homecomings Conclusion Conclusion: nothing more to see?The limits of speechArrangements of visibility and the production of belongingVisibility, invisibility and resistanceRussian politics, belonging and visibilitySeeing ahead

This is an important book in which the role of visibility in general and the media as its facilitator in particular is added to the theorization of political projects of belonging. It focuses on fascinating contesting case studies from the Russian media but is of generic theoretical and political importance as well.- Professor Nira Yuval-Davis, Director of the research centre on Migration, Refugees and Belonging, University of East LondonThis book offers an interesting account of why and how the Kremlin tolerates disparate voices and alternative media, while retaining the commanding heights of media capacity. It shows how a populist-authoritarian regime exploits contradictory and illogical media narratives to frame particular emotional responses. It suggests how and why opponents of the Kremlin struggle to achieve effective traction in the public sphere.- Dan Healey, University of Oxford, Salvic Review This book is a monumental research effort. The attention to Russian sources of various kinds and technical knowledge (regarding pathogens, life sciences, military applications, and the Russian bureaucratic process) is remarkable. - Lisa A. Balionee, Saint Joseph's University