Mark Bassin
Mark Bassin | |
|---|---|
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | geography |
| Sub-discipline | geopolitics |
| Institutions | Södertörn University |
Mark Bassinis ageographerand specialist on Russian and Germangeopolitics.He is currently employed as a professor in historical and contemporary studies atSödertörn University.[1]
Life
[edit]Mark Bassin was born in 1953.[2]Bassin gained his Ph.D. at theUniversity of California, Berkeleyin 1983.[3]
He has received personal fellowships from theFulbright Foundation,the Remarque Institute atNew York University,theAmerican Academy in Berlin,theSlavic-Eurasian Research CenterinSapporo,and theLeibniz Institute of European HistoryinMainz.Between 1 July 1988 and 1 December 1988, he was a research scholar at theKennan Instituteworking on challenges toSiberiandevelopment.[4]
His research has also been supported by grants from theArts and Humanities Research Council(AHRC), theBritish Academy,theGerman Academic Exchange Service(DAAD),NCEEER,theNational Endowment for the Humanities(NEH), and theFord Foundation.[5]
In 1995, he was a recipient of theChester Penn Higby Prizefrom theAmerican Historical Association.[2]
From 1996 to 2004, he served as Secretary for the Commission for the History of Geographic Thought of theInternational Geographical Union.[5][6]
From 2006 to 2009, his research was supported by a Major Research Fellowship from theLeverhulme Trust.[6]
Since 1999, Bassin has been Associate Editor for the journalGeopolitics.[6]
He has been a consultant for theWorld Economic Forum,and is a founding member of theValdai Discussion Clubin Moscow, in which capacity he meets yearly with the Russian President and members of his government.[5]
In 2017, he was awarded theReginald Zelnik Book Prize in Historyfrom theAssociation for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.[2]
He is an Associate Fellow of theSwedish Institute.[7]
Teaching positions
[edit]He has taught atUCLA,theUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison,andUniversity College London,and held visiting positions at the Universities ofChicago,Copenhagen,andPauin France.[5]In March 2005, while a visiting professor of geography at University College London, Bassin was invited to Russia as part of a UK expert group to meet withVladimir Putin.[8]
Until 2010, he was a professor in Human Geography at the University of Birmingham.[9]In 2010, he became a professor at Södertörn University.[1]His teaching and research interests include political, cultural and historical geography, as well as contemporary politics in Russia, Germany and Poland.[3]He has also been a visiting professor atUppsala University.[7]
He has also been a speaker at the Centre of European Studies atHarvard University.[10]
Books
[edit]- Imperial Visions: Nationalist Imagination and Geographical Expansion in the Russian Far East 1840-1865.Cambridge University Press, 1999.ISBN978-0-521-39174-0
- Soviet and Post-Soviet Identities.Cambridge University Press, 2012.ISBN978-1107011175
- Between Europe and Asia: The Origins, Theories, and Legacies of Russian Eurasianism - Russian and East European Studies.University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015.ISBN978-0822963660[11]
- Space, Place, and Power in Modern Russia: Essays in the New Spatial History - NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.Publisher: Cornell University Press, 2018.ISBN978-0875807980
Journals and articles
[edit]- Classical Eurasianism and the Geopolitics of Russian Identity
- Eurasianism “Classical” and “Neo”: The Lines of Continuity
- “Civilizations and their Discontents: Geography and Geopolitics in the Huntington Thesis,” article in Geopolitics
- “Ethno-Landscapes and Ethno-Parasites: Lev Gumilev’s Ecology of Ethnicity,” chapter in Ethnosymbolism: Critical Approaches to Ethnicity and Nationalism. Essays in Honor of Anthony Smith; Athena Leoussi and Stephen Grosby, eds; Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
- “Geographies of Imperial Identity,” chapter in The Cambridge History of Russia, Vol. II, Dominic Lieven, ed, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
- “The Morning of our Motherland (painting by Fedor Shurpin)” chapter in The Russian Visual Documents Reader, Valerie Kievelson and Joan Newberger, eds, New Haven: Yale University Press
- 2006 “Mackinder’s Heartland and the Politics of Space in post-Soviet Russia” (with K.E. Aksenov), Geopolitics 11: 1
- 2005 “Blood or Soil? The volkisch movement, the Nazis, and the legacy of Geopolitik,” chapter in How Green were the Nazis? Nature, Environment, and Nation in the Third Reich, Franz-Josef Brüggemeier, Marc Cioc, and Thomas Zeller, eds, Athens OH: Ohio University Press: 204-242
- 2005 “The Political Spaces of Modernity,” Conoscere il mondo: Vespucci e la modernitè (Memoire Geografiche, Nuova Serie, 5): 163–176.
- 2005 «Россия между Азии и Европы: идеологическое конструирование географического пространства» chapter in Российская империя в современной зарубежной литературы [The Russian Empire in Contemporary Foreign Literature] Paul Werth, Aleksei Miller, and Pavel Kabytov, eds. Moscow: Зарубежная Литература, pp. 277–310.
- 2004 “Historical Geography: Locating Time in the Spaces of Modernity” (with Vincent. Berdoulay), chapter in Human Geography: A History for the 21st Century, Georges Benko and Ulf Strohmeyer, eds. London: Arnold: 64–82.
translated as: “La Géographie historique: localiser le temps dans les espaces de la modernité” (with Vincent Berdoulay), chapter in Horizons géographiques, Georges Benko and Ulf Strohmeyer, eds. Paris: Brèal: 291–338. Translation of 2004a.
- 2004 “The Two Faces of Contemporary Geopolitics,” Progress in Human Geography 28: 620-626
- 2004 “Tristes Toponymies: What’s Wrong with Eurasia,” Ab Imperio 1: 178–183.
- 2003 География и Идентичность в Постсоветской России [Geography and Identity in Post-Soviet Russia]; Edited (with Konstantin E. Aksenov). St. Petersburg. Геликон-Плюс: 2003, 271pp.
- 2003 “Between Realism and the ‘New Right’: Geopolitics in Germany in the 1990s,” Transactions IBG 28:3 New Series: 350-366.
- 2003 “Politics From Nature: Environment, Ideology, and the Determinist Tradition,” chapter in A Companion to Political Geography, John Agnew, Katherine Mitchell, and Gerard Toal, eds. Basingstoke: Blackwell; 14-29
- 2003 “The Greening of Utopia: Nature, Social Vision, and Landscape Art in Stalinist Russia,” chapter in Architectures Of Russian Identity, 1500–Present, James Cracraft and Dan Rowland, eds. Ithaca: Cornell University Press; 150–171.
- 2003 "Siberia as discursive space: The geo-psychology of nationalism in 19th century Russia", Годишњак за друштвену историју/Annual for Social History (Belgrad) 10: 1-2: 27-50
- 2003 “Classical Eurasianism and the Geopolitics of Russian Identity,” Ab Imperio 2: 257–267.
Translated as: «Классическое евразийство и геополитки русской идентичности» chapter in Новая Имперская История Постсоветского Пространства [New Imperial History of Post-Soviet Space], Ilya Gerasimov, Sergei Glebov, Aleksandr Kaplunovskii, Marina Mogil’ner, Aleksandr Semenov, eds. Kazan: Центр Исслед. Нац. и Империи, 2004: 563–572.
- 2003 «К вопросу о географии национальной идентичности» [Questioning the Geography of National Identity], in 2003a: 10–17.
- 2002 “Imperialer Raum/Nationaler Raum: Sibirien auf der kognitiven Landkarte Rußlands im 19. Jahrhundert “[Imperial Space/National Space: Siberia on the Cognitive Map of Russia in the 19th Century], Geschichte und Gesellschaft: Zeitschrift für Historische Sozialwissenschaft 28:3, pp. 378–403 [in German]
- 2002 “Мыслить пространством: Eurasia And Ethno-Territoriality In Post-Soviet Maps,” chapter in S.K Frank and I.P. Smirnov, eds, Zeit-Räume. Neue Tendenzen in der historischen Kulturforschung aus der Perspektive der Slavistik (Wiener Slawistischer Almanach, Bd. 49): 15–35.
- 2001 “Renaissance der Geopolitik” [The Renaissance of Geopolitics], Der Tagesspiegel (Berlin) No. 17523 (9 September), p. B4 [in German]
- 2001 ` “Reading the Natural and the Social,” Intro. to Nature as Space: (re)understanding Nature and Natural Environments, Guven Sargen, ed, Ankara: MfY/METU; pp. 1–11.
References
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- ^abc"Mark Bassin".Mega Grants.Retrieved16 October2022.
- ^ab"Mark Bassin: Naturalistic principles, Eurasian civilisation, ideological discourses".Exploring Geopolitics.Retrieved7 October2022.
- ^"Mark Bassin".Wilson Centre.Retrieved16 October2022.
- ^abcde"School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences - University of Birmingham".
- ^abc"Mark Bassin".The American Academy in Berlin.Retrieved16 October2022.
- ^ab"Lecture by Mark Bassin. Politicizing the Landscape".Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje.Retrieved16 October2022.
- ^"On the eve of Beslan".UCL.Retrieved16 October2022.
- ^"School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences - University of Birmingham".
- ^"Mark Bassin. CES Speaker".Harvard University.Retrieved16 October2022.
- ^"Mark Bassin".University of Pittsburgh Press.Retrieved16 October2022.
External links
[edit]- "River of Dreams: Fleeting Visions of a Siberian Mississippi",Review of Bassins's bookImperial Visions,byIlya Vinkovetsky.
