AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Biopolitics in Search for a HegemenyChapter 1: Popular Biopolitics: a Theoretical Outline1.1 Biopolitics: a Short Introduction1.2 Performativity and Popular Biopolitics1.3 Popular Biopolitics and/of Populism1.4 Liberalism and Its Disavowal: a Biopolitical Reading1.5 Bare Lives between Biopolitics and Ideology1.6 The Regional Focus of the Book1.7 Methodological NoteChapter 2: Estonia: Between Geo- and Biopolitics2.
1 The Popular Biopolitics of Bare Life: Two Dominant Discourses2.1.1 The Ruptured Life in Occupation2.1.2 After the Empire: Post-colonial Lives2.2 Biopolitical Dislocations2.2.1 Russia as an External Other2.
2.2 The West as a "Close" (but Still) Other2.2.3 Ruptured Memories: Choosing the Lesser Evil2.2.4 Pristine Life2.3 Contemporary Reverberations: The Reactualization of the Biopolitical Contexts2.3.
1 After 1991: Suturing in the Soviet2.3.2 The Bronze Soldier Conflict 2.3.3 The Annexation of Crimea and the War in Donbas2.3.4 The Retrospective Biopolitics of the Refugee Crisis2.3.
5 100 Years of Independence: Celebrating DiversityChapter 3: The Screen and the Street: Two Face(t) of Ukrainian Popular Biopolitics3.1 From Comedian to President: a Cultural Genealogy of the New(est) Ukrainian Populism3.1.1 The Popular Geo- and Biopolitics of the Medialized Populism3.1.2 Technology of Populism: Ukrainian Know-How3.1.3 Trans-ideological Emptiness3.
1.4 The People, an Empty Signifier3.1.5 Un-securitizing Russia3.1.6 Playing with Ukraine's Multiple Geographies3.1.7 Debunking the West3.
1.8 "Servant of the People" and Zelensky's Presidency: Deciphering the Script3.2 The Geo-/Biopolitical Construction of Sovereignty in Insecure TimesChapter 4: Pastorate and ,,Somatic Sovereignty" in Russian Popular Biopolitics4.1 Night Wolves' Performative Imperialism 4.1.1 The Popular Geo- /Biopolitics and "Somatic Sovereignty"4.1.2 Patriotic Pastorate: The Stalinist-Orthodox Potpourri4.
1.3 The Biopolitics of Life and the Thanatopolitics of Death4.2 Iben Thranholm's Biopolitical Interfaces4.3 The Popular Biopolitics of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Russian Hegemonic Populism4.4 Russian Illiberal Populism: An AfterwordConclusion: Populations, Popular Biopolitics, Populism: Concluding Thoughts.