Jade McGlynn – författare

Från det romerska torget till digitala valutor – hur har marknaden utvecklats under historiens gång och hur kan den komma att se ut i framtiden? Denna antologi gör en djupdykning i marknadsutvecklingen och tittar närmare på marknaders avgörande roll i att utforma samtiden men tar också upp den brännande frågan om hur vi ska navigera mot en hållbar framtid. 

I tankeväckande essäer skrivna av internationella forskare, politiker och andra sakkunniga utforskas marknadens dynamik. Med utgångspunkt i de antika torgen och i det medeltida Europas marknader undersöker författarna hur tekniska framsteg, konsumentbeteende och geopolitisk strategi – till exempel den politik som utövades under Reagan-eran – har format nutida marknader. Slutligen tar boken upp de utmaningar för stabiliteten på marknaden som utgörs av auktoritära stater och AI. 

Boken finns även i engelsk utgåva, The Market.

This book offers a collection of innovative methodological approaches to Memory Studies in Russia and Eastern Europe. Providing insights into the relationship between memory and identity, the twelve chapters provide multidisciplinary analysis of how history is used to reinforce, remould, and reinvent national and group identities. 

This analysis includes a strong emphasis on interrogating the role of the researcher and the impact of methodology, exploring the field’s most pressing challenges, such as the subjectivity of remembrance,  reception versus production of discourse, and the inclusion of marginal perspectives. 

By focussing on countries in which the past is highly politicised, including Serbia, Ukraine, Poland, Russia and the Baltic States, the volume also analyses the diverse – and often conflicting – ways in which historical narratives emerge from these states’ efforts to create new pasts that shape their respective visions of the future, with pressing ramifications across this region and beyond.

Periodization is an ever-present feature of the grammar of history-writing. As with all grammatical rules, the order it imposes can structure but also stifle historical interpretations. Though few historians consider their period boundaries as anything more than useful guidelines, heuristic artifice all too easily congeals into immovable structure, blinkering the historical gaze.

In this cross-disciplinary volume, an international group of historians and cultural scholars considers different ways in which accepted period boundaries in modern European history and cultural studies can be challenged and rethought. Alongside a theoretical introduction and epilogue, the volume contains seven case studies exploring hitherto under-researched continuities and discontinuities in the social, cultural, intellectual, literary, labour and art history of 19th- and 20th-century Europe, with a particular focus on the continent’s East. Topics covered include French anti-communism, peasant memories of serfdom, cosmopolitan art in a nationalist age, the communist takeover of Poland, Russian literary history, and national day traditions in East-Central Europe. To problematize period boundaries, the chapters in this volume adopt the perspective of social groups that standard periodization schemes have ignored; shine a light on "awkward" actors who have appeared out of step with canonical understandings of their period; consider how historical actors themselves divide up history and how this informs historical practice; and explore the difficulties that the non-synchronicity of different historical processes can pose for periodization.

Periodization is an ever-present feature of the grammar of history-writing. As with all grammatical rules, the order it imposes can structure but also stifle historical interpretations. Though few historians consider their period boundaries as anything more than useful guidelines, heuristic artifice all too easily congeals into immovable structure, blinkering the historical gaze.

In this cross-disciplinary volume, an international group of historians and cultural scholars considers different ways in which accepted period boundaries in modern European history and cultural studies can be challenged and rethought. Alongside a theoretical introduction and epilogue, the volume contains seven case studies exploring hitherto under-researched continuities and discontinuities in the social, cultural, intellectual, literary, labour and art history of 19th- and 20th-century Europe, with a particular focus on the continent’s East. Topics covered include French anti-communism, peasant memories of serfdom, cosmopolitan art in a nationalist age, the communist takeover of Poland, Russian literary history, and national day traditions in East-Central Europe. To problematize period boundaries, the chapters in this volume adopt the perspective of social groups that standard periodization schemes have ignored; shine a light on "awkward" actors who have appeared out of step with canonical understandings of their period; consider how historical actors themselves divide up history and how this informs historical practice; and explore the difficulties that the non-synchronicity of different historical processes can pose for periodization.

Från det romerska torget till digitala valutor hur har marknaden utvecklats under historiens gång och hur kan den komma att se ut i framtiden? Denna antologi gör en djupdykning i marknadsutvecklingen och tittar närmare på marknaders avgörande roll i att utforma samtiden men tar också upp den brännande frågan om hur vi ska navigera fram till en hållbar framtid.

I tankeväckande essäer skrivna av internationella forskare, politiker och sakkunniga utforskas marknadens dynamik under tre kritiska faser: i går, i dag och i morgon. Med utgångspunkt i det antika Greklands torg och i det medeltida Europas marknader undersöker författarna hur tekniska framsteg, konsumentbeteende och geopolitisk strategi till exempel den politik som utövades under Reagan-eran har format nutida marknader. Slutligen tar boken upp de utmaningar för stabiliteten på marknaden som utgörs av till exempel auktoritära stater och AI.

Ukraina on Venäjälle maa, jolla ei ole olemassaolon oikeutta.

Venäjän brutaali hyökkäys Ukrainaan ja sen julmuudet ovat kauhistuttaneet maailmaa. Miksi enemmistö venäläisistä kannattaa sotaa? He tuntuvat näkevän täysin erilaisen sodan, jossa he ovat rohkeita altavastaajia ja hyväsydämisiä sankareita. Venäjä-analyytikko Jade McGlynn paljastaa kirjassa venäläisen enemmistön asenteet ja tuen hyökkäykselle.

Tavallisia Venäjän ja Ukrainan kansalaisia, virkamiehiä sekä ulkopolitiikan eliittiä haastattelemalla McGlynn tutkii venäläisen maailmankuvan valheita ja puolitotuuksia. Kirja auttaa lukijaa oivaltamaan venäläisyyden syvintä olemusta. Se kertoo monista venäläisistä, jotka uskovat täysin Kremlin sepitelmiin ja pitävät sotaa Putinin sankaritekona. Heidän silmissään tämä on Venäjän sota – Ukrainaa vastaan, länttä vastaan, pahaa vastaan ??– eikä paluuta voi olla. Suunnitelmallinen, omaan kansaan kohdistunut informaatiovaikuttaminen on tehnyt tehtävänsä.

Jade McGlynn (PhD) on Venäjän mediaan ja ulkopolitiikkaan perehtynyt asiantuntija, joka toimii mm. tutkijana King’s Collegessa Lontoossa. Hän on kysytty kommentaattori kansainvälisissä medioissa, kuten CNN, BBC, The Times, The Telegraph ja Foreign Policy.