Territorial Colonization in Late Imperial Russia: Stages in the Development of a Concept

Masoero, Alberto

doi:10.1353/kri.2013.0010

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“…Russian colonization was a "complicated process of transforming Siberia and the Far East into Russia" (Remnev, 2003). Indeed, the Russian Empire did not practice territorial expansion as the "permanent and supreme aim of politics" that characterized European imperialism (Arendt, 1958: 125), but rather as a popular reaction to institutional oppressions and as a patrimonial spatial rhetoric (Masoero, 2013). From the core, both people and authorities have viewed the Russian extension of the territory as superior to the historical experience of Western colonialism, not merely as a 'civilizing' strategy but also as a mean of integrating the peripheries.…”

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On the Peripheral Character of Russia

Martı́nez¹

2013

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This article argues that space is one of the formative elements in the construction of Russianness and explores how the occupation of the territory shaped the development of the country. Drawing on examples, I argue that 1. Russia can be presented as a conglomerate of marginalities -a centre and a periphery in itself. 2. Russian peripheries are not just plural, but also orientated towards different directions. The core deploys therefore a centripetal force. 3. The poly-periphery that constitutes Russia produces an extended liminality. 4. The Russian territory is not just conceptualised as vast, but also as infinite and contradictory. 5. There is a persistence of imperial logic in Russian politics. As a result, we can observe a continuous comeback of spatial elements in the configuration of cultural discourses and in the articulation of power; also the impossibility of full incorporation into the world system.

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On the Peripheral Character of Russia

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2013

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“…Such perilous and unpredictable climes demanded more than maps, religion, and steel to render them obedient to imperial will. Just as Kennan (1886) struggled to encompass Siberia in language, so too did the Russian state and public imagination fail to overcome the region's ambiguity and otherness (Masoero 2013). As Diment & Slezkine (1993, 1) point out, "Siberia has not been a single administrative unit since the 1820's.…”

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A critical legal geography of "Territory of Traditional Nature-Use" (TTP) formation in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Russia.

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In Russia's largest region, the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Indigenous (KMNS) leaders and communities representing five different cultural groups have succeeded in preserving traditional ways of life, and particularly nomadic reindeer husbandry, through the enormous political, social, and environmental changes of the past century. To ensure continued cultural survival, Indigenous leaders have developed a wide range of political and legal instruments, processes, and bodies within and without Russian governance structures. Key among these instruments is the "Territory of Traditional Nature-Use" (TTP), a geographically bounded legal-cultural landscape within which dozens of normative republican and federal acts, constitutional laws, and codices regulate and protect traditional land-use, socioeconomic organization, and ways of life. This thesis sheds light on the shifting legal landscape of TTPs by first, examining the formation processes of two TTP regions in the Sakha Republic, second, disentangling the complex TTP land-use regime, and third, framing TTPs in Russia's historical legal-political development.

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