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'Platoon' Friendship of the Soviet Academic Diaspora.
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Studies In Ethnicity & Nationalism . Sep2010, Vol. 10 Issue 2, p271-289. 19p. - Publication Year :
- 2010
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Abstract
- This article responds to concerns about the ''diaspora' diaspora' effect on sociology of national identity and migration, and the related thought by about a national community as something more tangible and close-knit than just 'imagined' by . I refer to the ideas of the occupational 'platoon'- derived from and - and platoon friendship as representing the occupation-friendship-nationalism conflation. Having conducted narrative-biographic interviews with twenty-five Russian academics now residing in the United Kingdom and the United States, I look at how they understand their new, diasporic spaces as impacted by their Soviet platoon friendship - a feature that could be used as a criterion for recognising a putative diaspora. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *DIASPORA
*SOCIOLOGY
*NATIONAL character
*NATIONALISM
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14738481
- Volume :
- 10
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Studies In Ethnicity & Nationalism
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 56090435
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1754-9469.2010.01080.x