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Record Nr.

UNISA996472057303316

Autore

Richardson Tanya

Titolo

Kaleidoscopic Odessa : History and Place in Contemporary Ukraine / / Tanya Richardson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]

©2008

ISBN

1-4426-9287-1

1-4426-8843-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 p.)

Collana

Anthropological Horizons ; ; 35

Disciplina

947.7/2

Soggetti

Ethnology - Ukraine - Odesa

Electronic books.

Odesa (Ukraine) History

Odesa (Ukraine) Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration and Translation -- Chapter 1. Kaleidoscopic Odessa -- Chapter 2. Uncertain Subjects: Youth, History, and Nation -- Chapter 3. Living History and the Afterlives of States -- Chapter 4. On Odessa's Kolorit and the Place(s) of Moldovanka -- Chapter 5. Walking Streets, Talking History: The Making of Odessa -- Chapter 6. Between Cosmopolitan and Provincial: Spaces of History and the Place of Odes(s)a -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The recent tumult of Ukraine's Orange Revolution and its aftermath has exposed some of the deep political, social, and cultural divisions that run through the former Soviet republic. Examining Odessa, the Black Sea port that was once the Russian Empire's southern window onto Europe, Kaleidoscopic Odessa provides an ethnographic portrait of these overlapping divisions in a city where many residents consider themselves separate and distinct from Ukraine. Exploring the tensions between local and national identities in a post-Soviet setting from the point of view of everyday life, Tanya Richardson argues that Odessans's sense of distinctiveness is both unique and typical of borderland



countries such as Ukraine. Kaleidoscopic Odessa provides a detailed account of how local conceptions of imperial cosmopolitanism shaped the city's identity in a newly formed state. Richardson draws on her participation in history lessons, markets, and walking groups to produce an exemplary study of urban ethnography. Ethnographically sophisticated and methodologically innovative, Kaleidoscopic Odessa will interest anthropologists, Slavists, sociologists, historians, and scholars of urban studies.