Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Tverskaya Ulitsa, Moscow, May 2006 -- Projects of belonging in contemporary Russia -- The concerns of the book -- Contributions -- Starting points: media, belonging, visibility -- Research design and methods -- Structure of the book -- 1. Politics of belonging: From speech to visibility -- Politics of belonging: the issues at stake -- Politics of belonging as speech: (counter)narratives and (counter)publics -- Politics of belonging as visibility contestations -- 2. Russian media as a space of appearance -- A historical overview of media in Russia -- Containing, amplifying and contesting visibility in Russia -- Revisiting the audience(s) -- Conclusion -- 3. "Homosexual propaganda": Regulating queer visibility -- Queer visibility, belonging and geopolitics -- Regulating queerness in Russian history -- The dominant interpretation of the propaganda law -- Tensions in the narrative -- Conclusion -- 4. Sochi: The nation on display -- Politics of belonging and the spectacular -- Contexts and controversies around the Sochi Games -- Sochi-2014 as a project of belonging -- Contesting the Sochi spectacle -- Conclusion -- 5. Ukraine: Spectacles and specters of war -- War, (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 speech -- Arrangements of visibility and the production of belonging -- Visibility, invisibility and resistance -- Russian politics, belonging and visibility -- Seeing ahead -- Index.

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