Alexander Etkind. Internal Colonization: Russia’s Imperial Experience. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2011
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Although Alexander Etkind’s book concerns “Russia’s imperial experience,” he presents empire as an “international project” (46). His reader is invited to a share of imperial experience through the double gaze of imperial administrators, theorists, and writers, who worked under multiple empires.
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Russian Empire, Production of Knowledge, Imperial Consciousness, Orientalism, Cultural Memory, Historians
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Dina Gusejnova, University College London
Dina Gusejnova is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at UCL's Centre for Transnational History. She specialises in modern intellectual and cultural history and the social history of ideas, with particular interest in twentieth-century cultural internationalism. Her work addresses the relationship between biographical experience and constructions of political identity. Her current research project focuses on positive and negative notions of cosmopolitanism in European and American international cultural institutions during and between the World Wars. She is also completing a book manuscript on aristocratic memory and European identity. Dina holds a doctoral degree from the University of Cambridge. From 2009 to 2011, she was a Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago.