Eleanor Knott. <i>Kin Majorities: Identity and Citizenship in Crimea and Moldova</i>
Journal: Hiperboreea Journal of History
Year: 2024

Eleanor Knott’s sophisticated account provides original insights into the kin-state politics of identity and citizenship in Moldova and Crimea. Theoretically, the inquiry is anchored in the broader constructivist tradition in social sciences. Specifically, it adopts the everyday nationalism paradigm, which examines the production of identities and related practices as a bottom-up rather top-down, elite-driven process. Methodologically, the volume falls within the qualitative camp because the aut